BASIC TRAINING: IF WE CAN EVER MAKE IT THERE...

Basic Training got off to a..well, odd start. If you can even call it a start. We drove to Jacksonville and dropped Jeremy off at his hotel, and after stopping at my dad's for a visit, we made our way back to Brunswick. I woke up the next morning feeling awful, and it made it worse that Jeremy wasn't here to help me, or to talk to. So after countless, painful trips to the bathroom, I checked my phone, and I had 2 missed calls and a voicemail. It was Jeremy calling from MEPS saying that he was sick and needed me to come pick him up. That was an interesting trip. I won't go into details, but when walking makes you nauseous, you can only imagine what driving does for your tummy. :/ So, I got down there and he was upset because they wouldn't let him ship to basic training sick. They put a medical hold on him, and he had to start the entire process over. He had to pick his job again, and his original job (25Q) was no longer available. So he picked 25F instead. He did get airborne this time, which wasn't available when he first chose his original job, so he was excited about that. His training station got changed from Fort Benning to Fort Sill in Oklahoma, so now we all have to fly to graduation, which isn't a bad thing, but it will be interesting seeing how Hunter will do on his first plane ride. His ship date also got pushed back to the 26th of April, and airborne school added another two weeks, so he will have to miss Hunter's 2nd birthday. We are going to talk to the recruiter and see if they will let him stay off base during airborne school like they might during AIT. So hopefully he will be able to celebrate his birthday with us. We were able to get the house ready for him to leave, and for us to go to my dad's, so that was a plus, because before I would have had to do it by myself. So the house is ready for move out, and we have most everything packed up and ready to go. We put our couch out by the road the day before he left because we didn't want it anymore, and someone took it, so now we have no couch :( But we laugh about it now.. so we are making our days together fun & spending time together while it lasts. We are excited to see what the future holds for us, and to see where the Army will take our family :)