with the good, there always is a little bad, or should I say sad?

I am so proud of the hubs today! Today he was advanced to Petty Officer 1st Class, and I got to pin him. I don’t have any pictures right now of the ceremony, but will hopefully have some later. He has been waiting for awhile for this and it’s a really great thing for him, and for us as a family. But with all great things come some not so great things. Because of his advancement, he is now considered Senior Enlisted and is going to be short toured, so yes, even though we haven’t even been here a year yet, we will be moving again.

It’s so funny, no one, and I mean no one saw this coming. Even his superiors told him they didn’t think it would happen, we just got here, another IT1 in the shop is leaving and they have had an over abundance of IT1’s in the past. So it was thought that we would be staying here. But nope, we’re not. It sucks. It messes up a lot of plans. I can’t do any of the weddings I had planned on doing, and I also can’t enroll into school here, plus our savings plan just got shot down the drain (which is a huge finaical hit). So it just really sucks. We don’t know where we are going yet(there is one option, but we are praying that it’s not it!) and the uncertainty of it all is killing me. I am a planner, I need to plan and knowing that there is something that needs to be planned out, but not being able to do it is torture!

Of course, there is also the issue that we most likely will not be within driving distance to our family and that is devastating to us. I know that it comes with the territory of being a military family, but we never thought that we would have no choice but to go so far away. Normally during a regular PCS you get options, and generally there are a lot of them within a reasonable distance to our families…. But this time it’s not the case and I just can’t fathom it yet. I am going to hate those good byes. There is going to be so much that we are going to miss with our nieces and nephews and our parents and siblings. And there is going to be even more that they are going to miss with our children. It’s just heartbreaking to think about. Damnit, now I want to cry again.

*Sigh* maybe there will be a miracle and we will get to stay…. There I go again, being that eternal optimist.