Not my favorite duty station?

Picture taken past times Apr McTaggart

Every fourth dimension nosotros move, I cease upwardly missing our final duty station. I actually lady friend our final duty station correct now. I popular off on thinking, "This is not my favorite house to live." Before nosotros moved, everyone kept telling me how awesome it is inward South Carolina together with how much I volition love it here. Now that nosotros are here, I experience like, "Well, nosotros can't practice this or that amongst ii two-year olds..." or "In North Carolina, I took all iii boys all over the place..."

I scream back it is totally natural to experience this way. However, I receive got to popular off on it inward check!

I hated our commencement duty station. I moved from California to New Hampshire, correct on the Maine border, inward January. By myself. My husband's submarine was a calendar month late. And I didn't receive got his boat e-mail address at the fourth dimension or whatever see what an Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany or ombudsman was. I was alone and it was cold. There was an H2O ice tempest together with our Jeep was encased inward literally an inch of ice. There was hence much snowfall together with my wintertime shoes consisted of Converse together with stiletto leather boots from Nine West. I wasn't prepared. By the fourth dimension nosotros moved, I was hence over the Noreasters together with decked out inward Columbia together with Ugg Boots. Being from Northern California, I didn't scream back the summers were "hot," every bit my local neighbors kept telling me they would be. I was over all of it together with fix to larn the heck out of in that location together with on our means to Hawaii.

When nosotros arrived inward Hawaii, I realized I missed this slap-up java store inward New Hampshire. And that the infirmary I gave nativity to our commencement boy inward was really, actually nice. And that I loved my midwife. I missed walking along the New Hampshire coast. I missed a lot of actually delicious local restaurants. Even to a greater extent than so, I realized I had a actually bad mental attitude the entire fourth dimension nosotros lived inward New Hampshire. I didn't similar it in that location together with I didn't desire to similar it there. Things that were hence annoying in that location at the fourth dimension were funny subsequently nosotros moved. For instance, our floor complex plowed the parking lots actually early on inward the morning. This meant that past times the fourth dimension I was fix to leave, in that location would hold upwardly a snowfall drift upwardly to the dorsum of our Jeep's bring upwardly window that had somehow iced over. My meaning self would receive got to knock on our adjacent door neighbor's door to ane time to a greater extent than inquire to borrow their snowfall shovel ("When are yous going to purchase ane of these, dearie?" "I don't know...") to chip the Jeep out hence I could get to my OB appointment. I hated doing that at the time, but it makes me express mirth instantly thinking well-nigh it.

I vowed that I wouldn't hold upwardly such a spoil sport at our adjacent duty stations. They don't receive got to hold upwardly my favorite places to alive together with perhaps I wouldn't always desire to alive in that location inward "real life," yous know, non sent-here-by-the-military life. I loved living inward Hawaii, but that was easy. My occupation solid unit of measurement used to opor-garai in that location together with I love the beach. I loved the food. I loved our occupation solid together with where it was located. I loved my neighbors. I had a harder fourth dimension when nosotros commencement moved to North Carolina. I had a difficult fourth dimension making friends. We lived means out inward the province when nosotros commencement moved in that location together with everything was a fleck of a drive; nosotros eventually outgrew our living arrangements together with felt real cramped at dwelling (read "Across town move"). Then nosotros moved to a occupation solid amongst a slap-up yard, a slap-up playroom, together with a slap-up location. We thrived. We loved it there. We loved the grocery stores, how many things in that location were to practice amongst the kids, how cheap everything was. We loved the food. We loved the friends nosotros made together with the playdates nosotros had; I loved the twin grouping together with their awesome twice yearly consignment sale. We utter well-nigh how nosotros desire to become dorsum subsequently my married adult man retires.

Then nosotros moved to South Carolina. We had a rocky laid about here, a stone oil fourth dimension unpacking. Perhaps that was the problem. But together with hence nosotros settled inward together with in that location are hence many things that I popular off on comparison to North Carolina. The grocery store province of affairs hither is awful. Everything is a drive, similar 20 or xxx minutes. I was nervous well-nigh moving our asthmatic toddler together with the influenza shot province of affairs hither actually position a bad sense of savour inward my oral cavity (read "2013 influenza shots"). There seems to hold upwardly a lot of areas only about hither that yous should avoid at nighttime (not that nosotros become out a lot at night, but nosotros practice similar to become larn H2O ice cream subsequently dinner). I lady friend our baby-sitters inward North Carolina; nosotros nonetheless don't receive got a regular baby-sitter hither together with I'm nervous leaving our asthmatic toddler amongst somebody novel (read "0-2 years old: twin must-haves").

When nosotros moved here, people who had been stationed hither earlier gave us a listing of areas that nosotros should motion to. We debated for awhile what nosotros wanted to do. Do nosotros desire to alive out inward town nigh things to practice amongst our kids? Or practice nosotros desire to alive nigh my husband's work? Since nosotros are living inward South Carolina for an undetermined amount of time-- could hold upwardly half dozen months, could hold upwardly ii years-- nosotros decided that living nigh my husband's operate was the priority (read "STA-21 'officer's' program"). That has been the silvery lining. He nonetheless hasn't classed upwardly yet, but when he does become inward for diverse jobs, he comes dwelling at lunch, or pops inward earlier his adjacent brief. When he does laid about school, he'll hold upwardly able to come upwardly dwelling for dinner or to help position the kids to bed. I actually similar that. We receive got both agreed that if nosotros were always stationed hither for a important amount of fourth dimension that nosotros would desire to select a unlike surface area to live. For now, beingness hither for my married adult man to become to through schoolhouse together with amongst such a immature family, I practice scream back nosotros made the correct the decision. (It doesn't wound that nosotros absolutely love our occupation solid together with our neighborhood!)

So I'm going to hang inward there. Maybe I'm only actually missing our quondam friends together with our quondam listing of activities. I actually liked the children's museum inward North Carolina together with the boys loved going in that location each week; our oldest loved the camps nosotros sent him to there. Maybe I'm missing our grocery stores (we lived nigh a lot of awesome grocery stores). Maybe I'm nonetheless settling inward here. Whatever it is, I'm going to turn over it some fourth dimension together with hold off for the best here. I don't desire to country that I only receive got to brand it operate for ii years, maximum, but it is true. We only receive got a trivial fourth dimension hither together with I desire to bask it to the fullest. I'm going to notice activities for our kids together with I'm going to brand friends amongst my neighbors. I'm going to put my best pes forward and, when nosotros motion again, I'll receive got no regrets.

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