The Final Countdown!

It's actually pretty sad. This is our final week together as the Hargrove family in civilian life...for the next 6 years! Part of me is excited for the new places we will see and new things we will experience. I can only hope (but I guess ultimately I choose) that these experiences will help us to grow! Derek reports to South Carolina on Monday and I will be reunited with him for only a short period of time in September. Then he will come back here to Ft. Benning to do his Officer Candidate School (which is why we are here, so he can be with us on weekends) until the end of November. And then it's off to Sierra Vista, AZ or Enterprise, AL. All this moving really makes you purge your house of junk you don't need. Trust me, hauling the necessary items is difficult enough. You don't want to drag more things with you!

I was zipping around the house this morning cleaning up things and I found myself wheeling an umbrella stroller into Titan's bedroom with one hand, balancing a sippy cup and a plastic dinosaur in the other and having a hundred more things to put away once I walked into his bedroom and noticed the disaster area. I thought to myself: "Wow, imagine doing this with TWO kids!" So that is another frightening fact I have to face. Being a military wife with a husband gone and having multiple children. Scary! I'm such a wimpy mother, how will I ever do it!? But the thing is, if we are only going to be in for 6 years, I should probably take advantage of the next-to-nothing cost of having children. 6 years should be enough time to pop them all out, lose my sanity and then regain it back, right? Let's hope so. And let's hope I can look as chipper as this guy all the time and have his attitude...