Whew. I haven't written in while. My apologies. There have been unseen changes that have happened and I've been WAY too busy to write. Anyways, I am back and glad that I am.
I am now writing to y'all from Virginia. I moved home last week. I am so excited to be back in Virginia and back to where I belong. El Paso was a good city, but I am glad to be back in the country and away from the busy city life. Everything is so much more simple. People are in no rush to get places and it's just amazing to be back.
I got a small apartment that is perfect for the boys and me. It's really small (in comparison to the three bed room house we had in El Paso). Robert's RnR was perfect timing because he came home just in time to help me make the drive up here. The drive is about 28 hours. I was able to downsize a lot and I fit what we needed into a 5x8 U-Haul trailer that we towed behind our Rav4.
It's so nice having to live around Army 24/7. Living on a military installation, it was Army 24/7 and everything was regulated and controlled. You couldn't water your grass during a certain time, you had to do this and do that. Even the day after a massive sand storm (winds 80 mph), I got a notice at 7 am that my back yard was in disarray and I had 48 hours to fix it. Seriously? The sand storm had winds up to 80 mph and they stopped shortly after I went to bed.
Now, I am back to the simple way of living. I am back to dirt roads and GRASS. There is green green grass everywhere. It has rained a total of three times since being back. Three times!!! Oh how I've missed the rain. We drove through a lot of it coming up here and now we are getting here. It's awesome to finally have seasons again. Rob and I both hope we never get stationed in Texas again. Some people actually love El Paso. I am not saying it was a bad city. I love parts of El Paso. It was so easy to have everything right there in close proximity of everything. I made some amazing friends in El Paso that I hated to leave.
So, now I am back in Virginia and I cannot wait to have everything in its own little place and get on with getting this darn deployment over. I cannot wait until we are a family yet again.
