I don’t often write about our military life; partly for security and partly because I just usually don’t think of it as being unique or noteworthy. I often take for granted that being a military family is really a good gig. Unlike others, I feel like there are very few things that make it harder […]
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Here is a super long story I just can’t rehash, made short: We had to move to Tucson.
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We’ve known for a bit that our car was in Europe; first Germany and then here in Spain, but down at the import lot at Rota Naval base. It took a while to get all the paperwork in order to be ready for picking it up, and we decided to drive down our cheapo Volvo together […]
Read MoreWell we got our household goods! Woohoo! They called Tuesday evening to bring a few things early and then came back at the crack of dawn Wednesday to finish the delivery. Bummer for all: the big truck with crates would not fit down our road. So they parked out of town, opened the crates, loaded […]
Read MoreWe made it. This move has been one of the smoothest ever in our military experience. It’s really incredible; either our perspective has changed or things are simply sunny this go around. On our final day in Korea we woke around 0430, got into our travel clothes, woke the kids, and we all dragged our […]
Read MoreThere comes a time that every assignment comes to an end, and today was the beginning of the end. Only two packers came in the morning, but by the end of the whole thing there were ten guys at our house loading up the trucks and hauling away all our belongings! We filled 11 crates, including […]
Read MoreTime is flying by too quickly. We’ve been out biking around town; there is a newly built bike trail that goes along the river just outside of town over to the Jinwi campground. It’s a wonderful little route; perfect distance for the kids. Bryan and I even had a date night! We drove up to […]
Read MoreSuwon Air Base had a Paul Bunyan competition this afternoon, and Bryan won! We found our way up to their recreation center and had some lunch waiting for other competitors. Eventually there were three of them in the running and Bryan blew them away with his skills. First was throwing a huge post, followed by sawing […]
Read MoreToday was party day! We woke early to join a group going to a nearby orphanage. Zoe and Avi were prepped with a “this is for them and not you” talk, and were raring to go. Zoe even wanted to pack up her own toys and take them over. Perhaps another time. Today each kid […]
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