My efforts to consolidate my driving find us at a coffee house on our faux-Friday night while the boys are at youth group.
I’m preparing the Friday School lesson that I’m teaching tomorrow morning and am happy that most of my To Do has been done for this week. I laugh at myself because our island is so small that it’s not like I’m commuting from Orange Coubty to LA, but the driving here is definitely harder work. Sometimes I think it has gotten more civilized in the 3.5 years we’ve lived here, but then I’ll see an empty car parked in the middle of a main road because prayer time trumps everything and shake my head as the cars backed up in both directions try and figure out how to weave around the obstacle.
We are waiting for orders. I think we’ll get some. I’m pretty sure we’ll be moving … inshallah? They told us they would start talking about it on Jan 20th so now my clock is tick, tick, ticking. We got an assignment a month ago, but within hours were back in limbo again so I’m still waiting for confirmation of some kind before I get excited about anything.
I don’t think we will be headed back to the US. I know Josh’s long term goals are to work and live somewhere in the region after retirement so it makes the most sense to transition to retirement and job hunt from over here. He’s got the skills and experience to make him valuable to the military in this region so we are hoping the Needs of the Marine Corps and his desires match up one last time.