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Current mood: sad

Wednesday of last week was just one of those days that makes your socks fall down.
THAT phone call came.

Yip, we go. Apparently the Drill Sergeants' Branch has more pull than anyone else in the Army so we are South Carolina bound. Hold that thought.

Travis has to report by Monday. Yes, that would be ten days to arrange one's life and be across the country. We really have no room to gripe because we knew this might be coming, but we really also thought that the unit deploying would take precedence over the unit which trains, but we were wrong. So we go.

Gut wrenching this news was. Amanda spent all last week at cheer camp to get ready for try-outs. She's never done anything physical before, but she really wanted this. So she did it, and she really worked hard. I was torn about what to do regarding try-outs and decided that we would tell her Thursday night if she made the team or that we would wait a couple of days if she didn't. That way, if she didn't make the team, Thursday wouldn't be the worst day of her life. I was trying to be humane.

She made the team. We went to the little dive diner down the street for dinner and we told the kids there. We were pretty sure Nolan would be excited. We knew Amanda would hate the idea. When I first told them (because my husband can let crazy men in dresses with dish rags on their heads shoot at him, but he can't tell the kids ANYTHING) she was pissed and started to holler a little at me about me letting her go through the week at cheer and having her try out while I knew it all along and that now that she had made the team I was going to not let her do it (of course, because I am the cause of all evil in the world, I even give guns to the crazy men in dresses). So I told her of the plan and she calmed. She will cheer until we move. Coach knows.

Outside of that unfortunate display, both kids were rather flat about the prospect of new beginnings. I was ready for anything and they were just kind of quiet and accepting of it. Maybe the threat of moving over the last couple of months has gotten them in the right mindset. Either way, I am grateful.

So, between now and whenever I have to get the house ready to sell, sell it, pack us up, get us moved and all the rest while Travis makes younglings into Soldier Mechanics.

I thought I would be OK with this happening when it was just a threat, but I don't think I really wanted to move. I have cried at least a little every day since the news broke.

Currently listening : Carolina Dreams By The Marshall Tucker Band Release date: 11 May, 2004