the emotional roller coaster that is my life

so i have tried a number of times to update my blog but was having technical issues. apparently it was more of an operator error because i just clicked the HTML button and now can type in this space again. whatever, i dont know about technology stuff. so if you read anything at all that i put on facebook you likely know that my family is in a time of great transition and frustration and lots of "-tion" words. in may we found out that charles had been selected ("volun-told") to be a recruiter. this is a great thing for his career and we feel that it will be good for him personally also because of his growing frustration with his very small job field and all the chanllenges that come with working in a tiny and disfunctional 'family'. the fun thing about recruiting is that it can be done anywhere (by fun, i mean not fun). so as homeowners, this presents a great layer of stress that, admittedly, we put on ourselves when we took the chance to own a home as a military family. we now find ourselves faced with the possibility of moving on short notice. because of the way the dates fall, charles will not be going to recruiting school until january, but he will be going back to work after leave in early december. so wherever he will eventually be rectruiting, he will move to in december ahead of me to train before officially starting school to learn the job. wrench in plan #1:government shutdown at the time of shutdown, he did not yet have his orders because it had not yet been decided in which area of the country he would be recruiting. so that meant that for as long as the government was shut down, he was frozen and, along with any other servicemember anywhere in the world slated to come home around that time, he was stuck where he was with no choice but to keep on working until the government became unconstipated. that was fun. the countdown was about 4 or 5 weeks and then it stopped. stress level 13. wrench in plan #2: "KC Recruiting Battalion" yeea..... horay! the government reopened and just a couple of days later we received word that he had been assigned to the KC battalion. we understood this to mean that we had just had all of our prayers answered - we would not have to move. now we just were waiting on orders so that he could clear his current location and get on the waiting list (of other people who had been backed up while the government was stupid) of people to come home. stress level 5. wait wait wait. what is that you say? the KC battalion covers the entire state of kansas? well that's just silly! indeed... as of right now, we are slated to move to Hays, ks. hays. a town of 8 miles, absolutely no rental properties and a big load of horse crap place where it would be near impossible for me to find a job. stress level 15. so wrenches happen, but silver linings do also. yes, we have no idea if/when/where we are moving or how in the eff we would make it happen. latest plan is to just hope that we would know those ifs/whens/wheres by early december to give us time to max the shit out of our credit cards to get the house ready and then have a friend of mine manage the property in time to get it occupied by an incoming military family before christmas. but in the mean time, he will be doing whatever he can to get sent somewhere close to either here or wichita so that if we do have to move, we could at least lay low at my parents' house until we are back on our feet financially enough to rent a small place there. but the best news of all - he is coming home. he doesn't have a specific assignment yet, but he at least has orders and that is enough to get him on a stinkin plane back to his family. miraculously, despite the best efforts of our dysfunctional government, he will be home exactly as he was originally scheduled to be. and although the last few weeks have been one hell of a ride, i definitely feel like we're on an upswing. we have more questions than answers right now, and a LOT of money hangs in the balance, but we both know that no matter what curves are thrown our way, we will at least be able to tackle them side by side again instead of over the computer. good lord this has been exhausting! so that's the latest on our end. cameron is doing well. we get to skype with daddy a lot more now that he is clearing and we all enjoy that. those two will be halarious when they are together. i have cried a lot of different kinds of tears this past year but my absolute favorite are from laughing when i see how much charles enjoys the little things that his son does. this is such a fun time too because he is repeating anything and everything and has an amazing personality. he is the perfect mixture of charles' silliness and my sweetness. i tell ya, we will have the time of our lives when we are together. and boy are we ever ready for the good stuff. :)