Ugh..... I hate even saying the word. But I sooooo cannot WAIT to be done with this place! There's so much drama being back around here. It's ridiculous. It seems like there's something new everyday. I know there's always going to be drama wherever you go, but I just keep thinking when we move clearrrr across the country and only know 2 people, or no one at all, it's gonna at least be a LITTLE harder to hear about the drama going on here! I can't wait. I can't wait to move on to bigger & better places & opportunities. It's incredibly exciting just thinking about it. :)
Justin is going to be calling his unit today, when he gets up (he worked nights last night so got off at 7am) to find out what he needs to for his AD paperwork or going on the deployment in Nov. He did talk to the Admin guys he needed to our in KY when he was there for AT. The one in charge of deployments said he's almost positive he could get him into it. He also talked to his Admin chief about how it would affect his AD paperwork and he said he didn't think it really would, that he could put it on hold or something, but told Justin to call him this week when he was in his office and could look into it further for him. I'm honestly fine with either one, but if I had my choice, I'd almost rather him go ahead with the AD thing for now. I'm ready to MOVE ON! And if he deploys, yes it would be good for his career, but that also means that we're stuck here until after next summer. I'm realllyyyy not sure I can do a whole 'nother year of this! So we'll see what they say later today. We had a long discussion about it yesterday before he went to work. He was thinking about having them put his AD paperwork on hold until he gets back next year and then picking up when he's done with the deployment again. That makes me nervous just because of how unorganized his unit is, even though they SAY it would be fine and work out xyz way, doesn't mean that come next year, it would still be like that. But, we discussed it and he did say that when his AD paperwork comes back, hopefully in the next little while, but definitely by Sept., and they can get him into an MOS school right away, he would do that rather than the deployment. So it looks like the deployment option would only be if they can't get him in right away. Supposedly, according to our friend who's an AD Marine and in Admin, he says that they are hurting bad for 02's, which is the MOS Justin wants to go into (Intel), so we all think that should be pretty promising news on him getting into a school right away since they are needing them bad. But, we shall see if it works out that way! I'm just soooo anxious to leave it's not even funny. I do feel bad for the g/parents not getting to see G-Mac very often at all once we are gone, but that just means they'll have to learn to Skype!! Hahaha! It will be nice to come "home" to VISIT, but it hasn't been a real wonderful experience LIVING back here, unfortunately. We both are just ready to move on. I just hate the "stuck" feeling you get by being around here, like it's a black hole that just sucks people in. I'm excited to get OUT of Kansas and live somewhere exciting! :) So anyway, if we go the AD route in the next few months, then once Justin is done with MOS school & we get a duty station, he will be volunteering for a deployment then, but that would still be at least a year from now if not longer. So either way I'm sure he'll deploy at some point, but that's what Marine's do!!! And I am such an incredibly proud USMC wife. :)
G-Mac is growing like a dang weed! I can't believe she is 7 weeks old already!! It makes me sad she's getting big so fast, but I'm also looking forward to all the fun we're going to continue to have! :) She has an eye infection right now we're trying to get over. She got some eye drops about a week ago, and it's helped, but not made it completely better, so I have a call into the doc now to see what they want to do. The nurse told me last week if it wasn't better in a week doc would want to see her, so we'll see what they say when they call back. She's such a beautiful little blessing to our lives!! :) We feel so lucky to have her. Justin was so happy to see her again after being gone for 2 weeks. He got back this past Sunday and was surprised at how much she'd grown/changed in just that amount of time. He'll be here this week and then he has to be gone for another 6 days starting next Monday night through Sunday, for drill and make-up drill from May. Sucks he's had to be gone so much!! But, that's the life! The USMC isn't very family friendly, that's for sure! lol But we love & support our Marine and are so proud of what he's doing and willing to do for this country when so many others aren't.
We just celebrated G's first 4th of July! Unfortunately we didn't do anything real exciting though. Justin had to work that night so he slept pretty much all day too. G & I went to Tara's house for just a couple of hours in the evening, but we sat inside the whole time because I was afraid she'd freak out with the loud noises or that it would hurt her ears. After that we came home about 9 and just hung out for a little bit then went to bed. Not a very exciting first holiday, but she's still so little there's not much we could've done anyway.
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| Her onesie says "USMC BABY Griffyn McKenna My Daddy's My Hero" :) |
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| Holds her head really good now. She's gonna be crawling before we know it! |
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| Daddy holding her again for the first time in 2 weeks! |
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| She's such a smiley girl now! :) |
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| Big smile!!! :) |
Well, not much else to report on yet at least. Guess we'll see how the next little while goes. I'm excited/anxious/nervous to see which path our lives are about to take!!! :) Bring it on! :)
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