My Life, A Summary
So, I posted a couple months ago how I was informed that I had pending orders to move myself and my family to Japan. Turns out, things aren't so simple. See, Kelly has Crohn's Disease, which was the reason we got our current assignment to McGuire from where we were in Alaska. There weren't sufficient medical facilities in Alaska for her, so they sent us here.
Turns out, that is working against us wrt our orders to Japan. Even though there is a specialist on base, he has the right to pick and choose who he wants to take on his case load. So, we went through the long process of getting referrals to her current specialist and getting all his notes and filling out forms and going for multiple trips to see the increasingly apparently incompetent local case manager for this kind of thing. We then submitted our completed package to the Navy Hospital where said specialist works. By regulations, they have three weeks to get back to us to let us know what's up. It's been over a month and no word. As it stands right now, we will never be ready to leave in time for my November 1st depart date.
We are in the middle of plans to renovate the barn-type building in the back of our house into a rental property, plus the fact that the only real steps we've taken to ready ourselves to move around the world, is getting our passports. How can we take definite steps to do something that's not definitely going to happen? So, we remain in limbo. If we are approved, I'm going to have to ask for an extension so we can leave at the beginning of January.
On top of everything, we recently found out that simplydorei is pregnant again! I feel kind of bad about when went through my mind when I found out. Of course I was and still am happy, very happy... but my first coherent thought about it was "NOW? Along with everything else? OMG. I wonder if the military will pay for a vasectomy." I don't really want one yet, but I remember how stressful moving was when we found out Kelly was pregnant with Aurora right before we moved here from Alaska. This is going to make that move look easy.
Apparently Aurora, our oldest, was the harbinger of the new bundle. One morning when Kelly was lying on her back, playing with the girls up in the nursery, Aurora went up to Kelly with her hands cupped and dumped some imaginary 'stuff' onto Kelly's belly. When asked what she was doing, Aurora replied, "Putting a baby brother in your tummy." Kelly immediately got up and took a pregnancy test that we had left over from a previous false alarm... and sure enough! We are currently trying to get lotto numbers out of the kid.. yet to no avail.
Turns out, that is working against us wrt our orders to Japan. Even though there is a specialist on base, he has the right to pick and choose who he wants to take on his case load. So, we went through the long process of getting referrals to her current specialist and getting all his notes and filling out forms and going for multiple trips to see the increasingly apparently incompetent local case manager for this kind of thing. We then submitted our completed package to the Navy Hospital where said specialist works. By regulations, they have three weeks to get back to us to let us know what's up. It's been over a month and no word. As it stands right now, we will never be ready to leave in time for my November 1st depart date.
We are in the middle of plans to renovate the barn-type building in the back of our house into a rental property, plus the fact that the only real steps we've taken to ready ourselves to move around the world, is getting our passports. How can we take definite steps to do something that's not definitely going to happen? So, we remain in limbo. If we are approved, I'm going to have to ask for an extension so we can leave at the beginning of January.
On top of everything, we recently found out that simplydorei is pregnant again! I feel kind of bad about when went through my mind when I found out. Of course I was and still am happy, very happy... but my first coherent thought about it was "NOW? Along with everything else? OMG. I wonder if the military will pay for a vasectomy." I don't really want one yet, but I remember how stressful moving was when we found out Kelly was pregnant with Aurora right before we moved here from Alaska. This is going to make that move look easy.
Apparently Aurora, our oldest, was the harbinger of the new bundle. One morning when Kelly was lying on her back, playing with the girls up in the nursery, Aurora went up to Kelly with her hands cupped and dumped some imaginary 'stuff' onto Kelly's belly. When asked what she was doing, Aurora replied, "Putting a baby brother in your tummy." Kelly immediately got up and took a pregnancy test that we had left over from a previous false alarm... and sure enough! We are currently trying to get lotto numbers out of the kid.. yet to no avail.