7 Weeks

Seven weeks from today - George will be leaving for a total of 22 weeks, first Basic Training and then off to Advanced Individual Training (AIT) in Texas.  I'm using my old blog and have revamped it to chronicle how much my life is changing.  I feel so new to the Army life that I can't imagine I might have any advice or words of wisdom to bestow, but if I make someone else feel better or not so alone then that is all kinds of awesome.  I'm also using this as a tool for myself, I feel very alone here in Portland, without any other Army wives to hang around and use all these fun acronyms for everything.  Another use for this blog is to help let everyone (like there are so many that read this thing) okay.....to help the three people that read this blog know what George and I both are going through, update his status as I hear it and maybe give some insight into what Army life is like for us. This blog will be espeically helpful to my Oregon life if I up and move to be with George, which I think I will know in the next couple of years if I'm going to pull up roots and take off. 
There is much to think about, mull over and decide these next couple of years and I'm oddly really excited about it.  It all seems like a dream, the thought of not living in Oregon for awhile, like it really won't come true but I hope that it does.   I could be ready for some change and some excitement.
Right now, George and I are in the midst of just getting him and I ready for his training, going through a bunch of paperwork, getting original documents of everything, planning going away dinners and parties.  And inside.......I'm freaking out a little.  This count down is really hard, it's harder for me I think because I'm not going with George to his first duty station, which makes me sad.  I read other blogs and facebook pages of other Army wives and am envious.  They are waiting for thier first duty station and get to be with their husbands and I have to stay here, that is a hard reality for me sometimes.  I don't want to leave Cole yet I don't want to be a single mom here in Portland, with a husband who is going to be living god knows where.
One thing I've learned is to just learn to go with the flow, because you'll find out what you need to know when the Army needs you to know.  Hard for a planner like me, but I'm learning.  I'll write about life in general and all the things I used to write about but I think I'll have a lot more topics and a lot more time to do so.

xoxo
M