A Complete Shift in Gears...Again.

Hubby had a long anticipated meeting with his doctor on base and the people handling his paperwork this morning, to try to get a better feel for how long we're going to be located in this particular state.

This limbo we're in, not able to move forward with anything, has been driving us both up a wall.  But who wants to put down roots when you're being told you could move sometime in the next two weeks to six months?

Do we go house hunting on Zillow, trying to find a place for where we want to live once Hubs is retired?  Do we move forward with a FET this year?  Does hubby start scouring the area we anticipate moving to for open jobs?  What about the gobs of pictures we have stacked against the walls waiting to be hung?  Do we commit and move the furniture where we want it, or do we live with the way things are because it's not worth the time or effort to invest in our current location?  Do I alphabetize the books in the library according to subject matter, or leave them haphazardly shoved onto the shelves as they are now?  (I'm a little OCD about things like that.)

It's hard to live not knowing if you're coming or going.

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Blessed

Thank you to everyone who read my last post.  And for all the lovely comments left here or on my FB page.  It really means a lot to me that E, J, & W's stories are finally written down and are being read, even though it's not easy.

I was not expecting to write their story at all, and definitely not the other night.  I suddenly realized that I needed to, though, and upon following that instinct, once I started I couldn't stop.  I didn't reread the post like I normally do for errors and content, so I know I missed a few things that I want to clarify in this post.

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All's Well that Ends Well

Finally a second post!  And boy, it's a doozy.

January had a rough start, that's for sure.  It's tough enough dealing with the end of the holiday season, hubby going back to work more days than he's off, family leaving or leaving family; not to mention that January 1at & 13th are W's birthday and heaven day.  Then this year though, a couple of days before W's heaven day, my mom called to say that her doctor had found a 16 cm tumor in her abdomen and she was being sent for further testing.  Then a couple of days later she called to say that in the middle of her testing they had found "nodules" on her lungs and she was being sent for further scans of her chest.

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