Saying Goodbye

Monday starts a new era for our family. Troy is now officially Mr. Troy Morrell and no longer Master Sergeant Morrell. His retirement is official and although we had every expectation that he would be working somewhere else at this point in time we are excited at the prospects of civilian life. The military community is like a surrogate family and so its sad to think that we will no longer get new assignments taking us to exciting new places to meet new friends, etc... (Our youngest son, Josh, still asks when we are going to move back to England.) The great thing about it is that we can now choose what to do and where to go....exciting!!!

Try, try, try...

I was so excited having 2 weeks off at Christmas time and had high hopes of maintaining an excellent blog. January came with the realities of going back to work and the pandamonium that seems to follow. For all of you working moms my hat goes off to you. I have been working part-time for the past 6 months and still not sure how the rest of you do it. I have been offered full-time work but am digging in my heels for the time being with the hope that Troy will land a great job and I can go back to my old post as just being "mom". In the mean time, I'm going to make another attempt at the blog.