Long time no type

I was in 5th grade when I first started to love writing. We had to do a young authors book and I decided to make my book different by making a poetry book. It was very cheesy, but it wasn't too bad. I think I got honorable mention on it or something like that. It was a creative idea at the time and I made it work. My poems were about candy and other random things, but for a 10 or 11 year old it wasn't half bad. That was 20 years ago... Wow! I loved ELA (English Language Arts) and I especially loved writing assignments. I loved essay writing, poetry, speech writing and just about any other random writing I could do. In high school I really started writing poetry more and more. I wrote over 200 poems my freshmen and sophomore years of HS. I wrote some short stories and toyed with the idea of writing a book... I have actually thought about writing a book a few times, but I just don't have the dedication or patience for it. I really enjoy free time, family time, church responsibilities, wifely duties and so on and so on. I know I could do it all if I really tried, but I feel like every celebrity or joe blow is now a "writer" and that takes something away from it for me. It seems too easy to get published these days.

Wow, that got off topic really quickly. Well, not really because the topic is the fact that I haven't written on the blog in a long time and I did explain that I have no patience for dedicating a lot of time to writing.

We have had a crazy few months to put it in words. In March I turned 30! I loved turning 30, really I did! 30 finally felt like an adult age to me. When people hear you are in your 30's they no longer think (mostly at least), wow you are a child, but now they think you are suddenly an adult who knows things. At least that has been my experience with it! The week after I turned 30 Matt accidentally clicked something to get orders for Alaska. Yes, accidentally! Well, they canceled those orders because of blah, blah, blah (if you aren't in or associated with the military then you probably wouldn't get what I could say to explain it, I barely get it myself) but either way they were cancelled. However, then he basically flagged himself to get noticed that he had been at Bragg for 6.5 years already and it was time for him to move on. He had 2 options. ROTC instructor or instructor at Fort Polk. We knew that the hours he would have to work at Fort Polk would likely be crazy busy and we decided to have him pick ROTC instructor. He got the options and 1 was basically the neighbor to Fort Bragg. Now, we (especially me) have been praying about what to do next for awhile. We wanted to buy a house, but after being some place for so long already our chances of not moving were slim so we didn't want to risk it. When NC came up on the list we both instantly liked it. We thought about our other options, FL, WA, MS, KY, etc... but nothing came close to how we felt about basically staying where our kids have grown up. 

Okay, so long story so far, but I will cut to the chase. We picked NC and we decided to buy a house! Matt has 5 years left in the Army until retirement and Bruce starts middle school this month, so staying here had a lot of plus sides for us! His orders were for August and we started the house buying process in May! We actually got to start the paperwork right around our 8th wedding anniversary and our offer was accepted and we moved in in July! 

We moved out of Fayetteville, but not too far out of it. Matt works in Fayetteville and started last week! The boys start their new schools in less than 2 weeks and I am recovering from my broken toe/foot bone and should be healed soon too so I can finish unpacking completely!

The next update I will actually talk about our summer and other things like that! I might actually stick with blogging this time, maybe just maybe it can motivate me to move on to bigger things!