We've had some exciting family news this week - Chad made the promotion list for Major! Excuse my "Army speak" briefly... This is what is known as a below the zone promotion. He wasn't slotted for promotion until next year, but normally 5-6% of each year group makes the cut a year early. This is certainly great news and something that shows how hard Chad has worked and what a great officer he is. However, it does come at a cost. This basically speeds up our military timeline by a year. We are in a period of 3 years out of the deployment cycle, and this promotion could take one of those years away. As of right now we are slotted to move to Kansas this coming January. That would only be 11/2 years into our 3 year assignment here. Now, one would think that the Army would not invest in sending Chad to grad school, only to move him after 8 months in his job. The Army doesn't always follow practical wisdom though, so we will just have trust the Lord and wait and see. It is definitely not our plan to move that soon!
That bit of information may change our plans of moving to a bigger house here at West Point too. Right now we are on the list to move to a 4 bedroom house with a garage. With the upcoming moving season, we would hope to be assigned a house sometime the end of May or beginning of June (nothing like moving and having a baby at the same time, right??). However, if we really would have to move in January, it is not worth moving into a bigger house here. Again, wait and see.
With all of that uncertainty swirling around, why not posts some goals for the month!
- Start Beth Moore Bible Study
- finish current book and start a new one. My goal for the year is 12 books. I have finished one and am almost half-way through my second book. Right now I am reading:
While I know Lisa Whelchel has had her issues in the past few years, I have been really pleased with the ideas given in the book. Lots of practical ideas and scriptures to go with them.
- Work out more consistently - at least 10 workouts the remainder of the month (we will be out of town so too, so that's the reason for the low number). I have made it to the gym a few times, but still not as much as I would like. The bigger I get the more I worry about uterine rupture, given my history. I know lots of people work out post c-section though.
- 1 date night and 2 family fun nights.
- 5 additional blog posts
- Purchase fabric for curtain and pillows in the girls room. I bought new bedding for them this past week. I am so excited about it! Of course after search high and low, I always seem to land on Pottery Barn bedding...hence to reason to make the curtains and pillows! When we moved Addison into a double bed in our house in Alabama, we purchased bedding late one night at Wal-Mart. My thought was that we would have the bedding for the 5 months we lived in that house. Well, 3 years later we still have pink princess bedding. If you know me, you know I am ready to move on! I am ready for grown up, yet girly decor that can grow with the girls. They both love it too! My seamstress expert mother-in-law is going to make curtains and pillows to go with it!
- complete a chore chart from pinterest. This is a doable, and needed project in our house!
- Write at least 1 thank you note a week.
- Take one picture a day.
Would you be posted at Fort Riley or Leavenworth?
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