Let the chaos begin!

If we're lucky, the timing might work out PERFECT. But really, everything in our lives is now at the mercy of Sgt. Recruiter and our mortgage company.


And here's a frustrating piece: Tyson leaving his current unit before his 6 year contract is up means we will have to pay back a portion of his signing bonus. And you may be asking yourself "why would you have to pay it back if he's staying in the Army?" Answer? National Guard = state pays you. Active duty Army = federal government pays you. As I've been learning, many Army rules and policies are a reaction to a prior problem. So my guess is that some states lost A LOT of money a while back on some soldiers leaving for active duty. Annoying? Yes. But at least they're consistent.

The other bad part is having to sell our house for a loss. But as our agent told us, the only way we'd make money on this place is if we paid it off, and THEN sold it. And even then we'd never probably get the amount we paid for it. The silver lining here is that this agent is a ROCK STAR and within 3 days of listing it, we were submitting one of TWO offers to the bank.

Sooooo....now we wait. Wait for the recruiter and our bank to tell us what the heck we do next. I feel like I've been doing well not freaking out and stressing about stuff. It's really out of our hands now so it's not really worth spending the energy on freaking out, I guess.

Wow I have a lot of packing to do.