Home?

We have had one crazy crazy summer but hope we have found a settling place for at least the next few months. As most of you know, Sean has been on extended orders for the Washington National Guard for five or so years. What this means is that he is considered active duty. He is an instructor at the school house in Yakima and loves it. There is little about his job that he enjoys and these days asking him what he doesn't like, he simply says he is grateful for a job. I love him. We aren't certain that his orders will be extended another year, so he has diligently searched for a new position outside the state of Washington. With no luck, we received all "No's". We knew that was the name of the game, but he had to try to find something. Many people ask why is he only looking in the Guard, well here is why. Sean is four years to a National Guard retirement which is great and he will get, but if he continues in the Active role like he has been doing, he can retire from the Guard in five years with a full active duty retirement. If he was to look in the civilian workforce (which is grim) he would be starting at day one with a huge potential of not have a retirement package.
We are hoping that we find out we find out in the next few weeks. Ultimately his current set of orders end at the end of September. :Sigh::
Other than Sean's job situation, we knew we had to return a sense of normalcy for the boys and came home to Yakima so they could start school. Both boys will continue at their old schools. I am also enrolled in another term at Central and sticking to online this term.