Well on Monday we discovered the two most dreaded words in the army did apply to us. So it appears we’re going to be here for another two years.  I apparently turned dead white in shock.  The best part of the whole situation was that Justin wasn’t with me at the meeting so I had the dubious pleasure of being known forever more as “my wife: killer of hope” (my words not his)  He was rather upset but we both adjusted to the idea. So now we’re making plans for another 2 years here. We’re going to buy a house which I’m rather nervous about because of the housing stuff going on. However it is a good idea. I’ve narrowed it down to 4. Justin is rather picky about his commute so that made it easy to pick a subdivision.  So we’ll see how it goes. He won’t be leaving till the new year at least. However he will be gone almost six weeks out of the next eight. I’m not terribly thrilled by this prospect but at least my mom is coming to visit this month and she can go look at the houses with me. I’m trying to see the bright side of this. I need to be ok with it cause the last thing he needs to deal with is grief from me over something totally beyond his control.