This crazy life

Wednesday night Nick and I went to bed with a feeling of relief that life was getting back on a schedule. Sweets was starting to get into the groove of a bedtime schedule again and we were on track to running smooth. Phew!

Nick got up Thursday morning and went to work. I am sometimes up at 6AM feeding Kailey, but I always go back to sleep until she's ready to get up for the day. While I was sleeping I missed a call from Nick and I also had a text that said, "Call me when you can". I didn't think anything of it, just that he might have to stand duty that night. Well, when I called him he said he got a call and there were not enough ME1's so he had to move this summer. WHAT?!?! We were not supposed to move until next summer. Don't get me wrong, I'm not mad about it, but I thought we'd have another holiday season, another summer for camping and so many other things. But at the drop of a dime things can change. It's inevitable. You just have to roll with it. The crazy part, we had about an hour to decide where we wanted to go. Nick started listing off the places on the list: DC, Bangor, WA, Virginia, Houston, Louisiana, Oregon, NYC. Then we had to talk quickly about where we wanted to go if the options were open. We weren't sure which options we would have though since everyone else got to put in their picks first. We decided we didn't really want to go to Florida or Louisiana. Recently Nick had been watching a lot of shows in Alaska and we'd talked about how it would be cool to go there. But did we want to stay on the east coast or go toward the west coast?

Nick got the call from the detailer and got all of his options. It was either he take a job on a cutter (he'd be gone for 3 months at a time) in Oregon or Virginia, Kodiak, Alaska, Valdez, Alaska, or Bangor, WA. Nick called me and we talked about things quickly and he told me to look into Valdez and Bangor because we'd narrowed it down to those two options.

As soon as I googled Valdez I saw and article about a whole bunch of snow. I read it's one of the snowiest cities in the US and the population is 4000. Whoa! I got a bad feeling in my gut about that, but decided to keep researching. I read a couple other things, but knew I'd already made up my mind. I called Nick and he had just gotten off the phone with his dad. Dad works in Anchorage for part of the year and has a pretty good idea about Alaska. He told Nick, "hell no!" about Valdez. He said it's so snowy. He said we'd be working all summer to prepare for the winter and we'd pretty much be stuck in the house when the snow came. Not fun at all in my opinion. So Bangor, WA it is.

We have no idea when we will be moving. Nick will get his orders within the next month most likely. I'm really excited to be on the coast again, to be near the ocean, and in the mountains. I'm also pretty excited we will be close to family. Nick's parents live about 40 minutes away. It's also a shorter and cheaper flight to California, with no layovers!

I will be pretty sad to leave all of the friends I've made here in Rochester and Syracuse. There's no denying I've laid down some roots in this place. I've decided to really just take it one day at a time and enjoy the time we have left. I want to spend as much time as I can with the people I love and now call family here. I know when we leave it will not be goodbye forever, but it will be harder to leave here than it was to leave California in 2009. I can't really explain why I feel that way. Maybe a part of it is this is where Nick and I came right after we were married and we had only each other. The friends we've made here are both of our friends, not just his or mine. This is the first house we bought together. I know I would be feeling this way even if we were moving next summer, but I wasn't expecting to have to deal with it now.

Breathing deep and drinking up every moment we have left here!