I hate waiting

We expected to hear something in January regarding our future. But we got nothing. Wait 2 weeks was what we kept hearing. Yet.... nothing. We've been here 3 years. Dan needs to get back into his MOS. He's scheduled to pick up rank, and we're due to move on. So we wait.

There were rumors of a PCS freeze due to the lack of budget. There is a new policy in the Navy that you no longer get to know 6 months before you move, you may only get 2 months. It looks like we may only get 2 months. Dan talked with the monitor a few times and it seems like we can expect to be moving to one of his top 10 choices, and we may know in 2 weeks. 2 weeks passed a while ago.

On Wednesday, the website said the slate should be out on Thursday. I was giddy with excitement. Dan checked again before going home an it said not till Friday. Today is Friday.

Guess what? No slate. No orders. No idea of where we'll be moving this summer. I hate waiting. I hate not knowing and not being able to plan. Maybe in 2 weeks we'll know. Maybe.

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And now for some pictures!

After much sweat and wrangling and fun, Joshua managed to remove the doorknob from the damaged door. He really had a good time with it! We did replace the door and all is well there.

Look how happy Charlotte is in the car!

Uh oh, she's spotted Rylee, and now she's not happy.

Yep, Rylee is trying to shove Charlotte out so she can get in. Poor Charlotte!

Now, when Rylee is trying to be nice, Charlotte is skeptical.

Marian spent all afternoon working on building this hut. She and Katie wanted to build a Kenyan house. Some of the homes there are built from branches covered with mud and cow dung. So the girls had a marvelous time constructing these in the back yard. Fortunately, we are all out of cow dung.

I love the spring weather we have had the last few days! The kids have played outside in the yard all afternoon. Check out this other branch hut they built. The yard is all soft from the recent rain and its easy to poke the sticks into it.

How is life right now, you ask? Well, Andy, Kera and their other 3 children arrived back from Kenya on Tuesday night. We had a different kind of chaos for a few days. Joshua and Marian were delighted to have their older cousins around to play with. The kids all played pretty well together, and the weather was gorgeous! Kera was marvelous and not only did she babysit the kids while I went to the Temple on Thursday, but she cleaned the house as well. It looks amazing! Andy was fantastic about putting the new door up, and he disposed of the enormous pile of cardboard that's been disgracing our porch for several months. It really was nice to have them here and it was nice to visit with them. I love that my children are able to have a relationship with their cousins.

They all left this morning and the house is SO quiet! It was sweet to hear Delaney say that she misses Matthew. I kinda miss them all too.