freedom!!

Wow do I feel good right now! Why you ask? Well, last night when BF came home from work he had a surprise for me... That's right... His discharge packet was approved! So, as of spring next year, we will officially be done with active duty!!! WOOOOOO Hallelujiah it is a miracle!

So, what's the next step? Now we have to work on getting BF a job so we know where we're going to go from here. I am so excited and just a little nervous about our future. Excited because we can finally start planning our lives according to how we want to run them and not how the Army wants them to run. A little nervous because it's uncertain where we're going to go and who we'll meet when we get there.

But that's half the fun, right? Starting over somewhere new, meeting new people, having new adventures. I cannot tell you how great the feeling is. It's like a 10 ton weight has been lifted off my shoulders. And while it will be bittersweet to leave this paradise, it is so much more exciting to be going somewhere where I won't have to wonder all the time "Is there going to be another deployment? Can I handle this all over again?"

If I had to, I would have endured it, and I would have gotten through it with the love and support that surrounded me from family and friends just like the last time. But life is so much easier and so much happier this way :) I feel like singing from the rooftops today!

Life is good :)