Two weeks until movers

The house has unfortunately not sold yet, so now we are going to settle for a renter. Oh well, we will be able to save some money and we will have somewhere to come back to. Jason finally got the amended orders and has started clearing the post. Tomorrow we are heading to try and get our plane reservations. I am so ready to find out when we are leaving so that we can finalize all of our plans. Jackson's last day of school is the 5th of June and then the whole next week the movers will be here. We have some stuff going to Korea with us, Jason's military stuff going separately to Korea, and the rest going into storage. It should be a long week. We will clean the house and head to Dallas on the 15th of June to stay there until we fly out. It is getting ready to get really crazy around here and I am not looking forward to doing all of it with a screaming two year old attached to my leg.

Waiting for orders

We got the command sponsorship approval (what allows the family to go with the soldier) a few months ago, and yet we are still waiting on the orders. Jason got a copy of his orders that state that he is going to Korea, but for some reason they are taking forever to print out the amendment to his orders that state that we are going with him. This is such a pain because without those amendments we are not able to arrange for transportation to come get all of our stuff or get our travel arrangements. It is just amazing to me that we are expected to report to Korea in little over two months and we are not able to start any of the official preparations. Up until today we have been calling the office once a week to check on them and they have been brushing us off. Today I decided that I am going to politely bug the crap out of them each day until the amendments are in our hands. I would love to go in there and throw a fit, but these are the people who hold onto our passports until we are ready to leave. I would hate for them to “loose” our passports in retaliation. So I will have to be kindly annoying until I get what I want and then when we have completely cleared the post file a complaint about them. When I talked to the lady today she told me that she was still working on printing out amendments for people who are leaving in June. If that is the case then there is no way that we are the only family in this mess. This is the part that I hate the most about the Army: hurry up and wait. Every other time we have moved it has been a smooth and relatively easy transition, but our biggest move ever seems to be starting off on the wrong foot. We have soooooo much to do and so little time to do it, and we cannot even get started without those amendments.

And we are off

When Jason came home a few months ago and told me that we were all getting ready to PCS (permanent change of station) to Daegu, South Korea, I was completely shocked. It will be my first stamp in my first passport! I have never been that far away from my mom and dad before. Then Jason proceeds to inform me that not only are we heading to Korea, but that we will be there for three years. Let me say that again……THREE YEARS! Ok, so after I finished my little pity party I decided that there was much work to be done. I only had about 12 weeks to sell the house, put the majority of our stuff into storage, send the things we want to Korea, and eventually get all of us onto a plane. House clean and on the market…..check. One thing down, and I can’t even count how many more to go. In my research I have had a hard time finding answers to some of my questions. There is no way that I am the only person with these questions and concerns, so I decided to start this blog