Welcome to June and almost a whole month without "Lonnie". Knock wood: the camper is still intact and I've only been locked out by the kids once, the car is still running and is finally clean, no one has been to the ER, and Kai was only lost in the world's largest aquarium for a mere 10 minutes. All in all, we are winning! This is the last week of Air Command and Staff College and our last week in Alabama. While my classmates are winding down, I am just gearing up for the Gathering of Eagles program (http://www.goefoundation.com). Check out the website, I'm totally on it as a team member! We get to meet and work with famous air power legends, but it's a solid week of 16+ hour days, the culmination of an entire year of work. I've been emotionally wrestling with leaving the kids with babysitters for all the waking hours this week. I finally realized that there have been WAY more things that I've done to them that will require therapy than simply a week without me.
So there won't be any blogs from me this week. I'll catch everyone one up at the end, prior to our graduation next Monday. That's a day I'm really looking forward to, not because I haven't liked it here, but because I am ready to move on to my next challenge as Chief Nurse of the 931st Aerospace Medicine Squadron at McConnell AFB, Kansas. For once, "Lonnie" and I will be stationed together. Yes, military serendipity at its finest. My new reserve position will be a "one weekend a month" type of scenario, but will be guaranteed to take much more time then that. However, I'm not really focused on the new job (although I should be), I'm more concerned on how we are going to get through the next 12 years (length of time before "Lonnie" retires) without losing a home to a tornado. I've researched Dome Homes, Berm Homes, old military silos, and not living in Kansas as all viable options. "Lonnie" continues to point out that our house is in a neighborhood where all the houses are from the 1920's and have basements. My answer is, "well, the every-100-year-killer-twister is most likely going to hit there then. Those houses are tempting fate!!" He was not amused with my statistical prediction. The good news is that we won't be living in our trailer, which pretty much would have ensured we'd be homeless before the end of the year.
The kids are starting to grasp that change is coming, mostly by screaming "we want to go home" while we are sitting in the trailer. Um, we are home. Either they keep transporting through time and are living in another place, or just simply want to live in a house again, I'm not sure. Regardless, I think the confined space is starting to get to them. The traditional sibling fighting, tattling, antagonizing, etc has been in full swing. The role of "Lonnie" is being played by Kai who orders time-outs, and Ayla has been parenting by announcing all the things she does not like about her brothers' behaviors. Orion ignores the other too, thereby filling in the role of kid.
If we survive the week, I'm sure the story will be awesome!
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