If everything always went as we wanted it to...

Christian would be gone already today, and be headed to Chicago for basic training tomorrow, except instead he is picking up Chinese food for tonights dinner.

So before I say more, his ship date is still june 6th.

but here is a fun little story from last week

we got a phone call the Friday before new years, and Christian was asked if he would like to Ship out on the tenth of January instead of the seventh of June. when he called me to talk it over I immediately grabbed a calander, mapped out when he'd be done with basic, and when he'd be done with Texas. that would change it up from leaving for boot camp on the sixth of June to being done with training on the 19th of June! not to mention, I'd start receiving the oh so lovely Navy health insurance. After we called them back with a yes, they said we'd get a confirming phone call that day, or the next. BUT that day and the next came and went with no phone call. We didn't want to tell people before it was official, but we realized that as the day was a little more than a week away we needed to give some people a little warning. we also realized how much needed to get done if he was in fact leaving. but we couldn't start packing his things away until we knew for sure either. we were slowly telling people about it and I was getting scared of jinxing it with as much mental preparation I was doing for our potential next several months. then early

Then Tuesday morning Christian woke up to a phone call from The higher up that everyone was waiting on for the OK to get things started! he jumped out of bed and headed straight to our recruiters office to start filling out paperwork. I was so excited and I was sitting on the bed waiting for him to come home and tell me all about what had happened when I got a phone call. I have never heard Christian sound so defeated before. Christian said they got a call and were told that the position for Medical Corps was not available for that ship date, and if he wanted to continue he was going to have to give it up. they wouldn't even say what was available which looked like a big red flag to us. he called to ask me what I thought about it and I told him that if they didn't have his job, then there really was no question. we prayed a LOT about joining the Navy, and we went into it only after researching it pretty extensively. we talked to a lot of people, found countless websites, and even bought books. getting the position he did really was an answer to prayer in no uncertain terms. we really couldn't go with the offer any longer.

We were disappointed, but only until we realized that nothing had changed. We still had our original Ship date set and christian has his job still. And we got a chance to realize all that him leaving is going to mean. all the things we can do to be ready for it that we didn't even think about.

AND it jumped started me into a spring cleaning frenzy that I'm pretty proud of.

so here's to looking at the bright side =)