WE HAVE ARRIVED!

We arrived in MD a week ago today, last Tues. evening and hit the ground running Wed. scheduling houses to look at. We found a wonderful realtor to show us rentals and give us her 'advice' on schools and neighborhoods, and anything else we asked about. She's born and raised, along with raised her own family in this area so she knows it very well....We've finally settled upon a 'farm' type house in Gambrills, MD...it's as country as you can get. It sits on an acre and has lots of great landscaping and room for the kids to run. 2 sides are bordered with corn fields and the third is a forest that stretches for quite a ways.

The area out here is lush and clean and beautiful...which wasn't what we were expecting....there's lots of hustle and bustle, but everything is tucked away behind lots of trees, there's nothing right off the interstates, other than trees. So it's very easy to lost because nothing is visible from the roads. The trees are beautiful, it's definately fall here on the East Coast. The drive here was awesome with all the fall colors....the most beautiful states, in my opinion were Ohio and Penn....the colors were bright and beautiful. Once we got here it proceeded to rain the next, well, up til Sunday. Yesterday was the first sunny, beautiful day we've had here. It's supposed to stay nice until the end of the week.

Right now, we are scheduled to move in Fri, if all goes well. It's been very frusterating to get everything accomplished because of all the hoops. The schools require 2 proofs of residency, well, when you've just moved try making that possible! Thankfully, I got copies of the kids' school stuff before I left, that was just an accident! Some schools will understand and work with you, these here not so much! Had we not had the info. with us, we would have had to wait to register them....this is where laws and such need to be reevaluated when military is involved. When the gov't is forcing us to move, the schools need to be a little more understanding of the situations. Then again, civilians rarely understand!

We are currently living in a one bedroom hotel room...stress and tension levels are high, no room for anyone to get away, the kids are being good thus far, but mom and dad have stress levels out the roof! It's coming together slowly, luckily Jason will be home for a month or two until he gets his polygraph test taken and his security clearance paperwork completed....it will be nice to have someone help me unpack! Pictures to come when we get a little settled!