housing frustrations

I've always said that I enjoy being an Army wife and moving around is not too bad. Well, today is not one of those days. Chad has been in New York less than 24 hours and has already ruled out several of the potential places we had looked at to live. Upstate New York apparently decided to stay out of the housing boom and bust cycle by simply not building any houses! Being from the South where there are new developments on literally every corner, it is so hard for me to grasp how there just aren't any houses available in an area. I feel like every option is more bad than good right now... go to New York and live in a house that doesn't meet our needs and/or is in a bad area of town or really far away from post... the girls and I stay in GA and essentially turn a 12 month deployment into a 16 month deployment... go to New York temporarily with the girls and then move back to GA, only to have to start the process all over again when Chad gets back... find somewhere for 9 months and then move on post when a house is available, during the winter, by myself with 2 little ones... or buy a house for only 2 years and risk losing our shirts in the process (again...) blah...!! I am normally not a pessimistic person, so I will try to keep my head up and remember that the Lord has a plan for us. He is not moving us to New York only to dump us out with nowhere to live.

On a more positive note...here are some pictures from our recent trip to Ma-maw's...

My Ma-maw always has the most beautiful flowers!!

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