I haven't written in a while - mainly because of time.  There just aren't enough hours in a day.  How come when the kids were babies, it seemed as if the days lasted forever?  Now, the years are passing by so quickly! 

DH is back from his year long remote to Korea.  YAY!  I will honestly say it was the absolute hardest year of my life.  I did end up putting a couple of my boys in public school until we moved in Feb.  They did ok... but geez - it definitely reinforced the reasons I didn't WANT to do it.  But... for sanity sake this past year, it was a Godsend.  lol  DH got home 2 weeks ago (May 6).

Shortly after dh got back, we found out that he is being forced out of the Air Force due to force shaping.  He has 12 years of active time in... so we will get an ok severence pay - but we had planned on staying in for at least 20 years and getting a retirement.  Plans change.  A new fork in our road.  And now... deciding what to do, where to go, and how to get there.  We trust that God has plans... but we are really anxious to find out what those plans might entail.

The day after getting that news, Austin (9)  had surgery.  He had his tonsils out, adenoids out due to sleep apnea, and tubes placed in both ears due to conductive hearing loss.  When I took him to the doctor to see what could be done about the sleep apnea, I thought the doctor was going to turn me into some agency.  sigh... I told her that he was sleeping in my room when I noticed that he was stopping breathing at night.  She jumped right on that one.  Well... he was sleeping in my room because he had shown me that he couldn't deal with sleeping on his new loft bed - he jumped onto his brother!  So, he had his mattress on my floor for a couple of weeks.  But geez, they really do jump on anything that could be minutely misconstrued.  Sad.  Anyway... he had his tonsils out.

DH went back to work this past week.  After finding out he is loosing his job by the end of Sept. - he went to work at a new position that he was hand selected for.  He recently pinned on Captain.  He is a commander of aquisitions and also a section commander.  He actually has to work discipline issues for officers of all ranks as well as run the commander's support staff.  He is working directly for a 3 star general, too.  He has a cell phone issued to him, as well as a Blackberry.  His office is HUGE.  He has a large conference table that seats 6 large comfy armchairs... and an enormous desk.  I think he is a bit sad to know it will only be for a few months.  But... we are trusting that this position will give him some new experiences that will help him get a good position in the civilian world.

Hey, if anyone knows of a good Human Resources Management position... dh is interesting in hearing more!  (gotta throw that in there)