Family Visit

My mother-in-law is visiting us for a month and we've been spending time as a family. The children are so happy to see her.

Summer is halfway done and Mike is working to get his recruiters back to a normal schedule. So far they are working from 8am to 6pm every night. Wednesday nights they work until 8-9pm because they have a poole function. 

Another Lonely Night

The week is almost over and I'm ready for the weekend. It's been a long week. Mya attended a day camp all week through one of the local churches. She was able to learn about tennis and then did some martial arts training. She really enjoyed it, but the camp runs in the afternoon. The bus picked her up at 12:50pm and then dropped her off at 5:45pm. This disrupted Lily's sleep time and she's been grumpy and off schedule. It also means that she hasn't been sleeping well at night either.

Mya, on the other hand, has been absolutely thrilled. She comes home excited and happy, talking so fast I can barely understand what she's saying! It's good to see her so happy. I just wish that the camp would have been in the morning not till later in the evening.

Long Hours, Long Nights

I feel so bad for Mike lately. He's really been stressed out. I think I mentioned that he went from a regular recruiter to managing the station our first or second month here. He's been thrown into his job to sink or swim and the guy who was training him... Well, he's leaving soon, so you know how that goes. In any case, Mike's been getting a lot of heat from HQ. I'm not sure why since he has been making his mission every month, but I guess that's just the way it goes.

Rough Week

As I've mentioned before we live 3.5 hours away from the MEPS (Military Entrance Processing Stations) as well as the Headquarters. MEPS is were the the Poolees actually contract to join the Marine Corps. Their paperwork is screened and verified and they receive their physical and such. (For more info click here). It is also where the applicants go to ship to boot camp. The headquarters is where Mike's command is. He goes there for training, meetings, events, etc.

Memorial Day Weekend

It's Memorial Day weekend and the end of the school year here. My oldest finished 3rd grade on Friday and we went out to celebrate. We had dinner and then came home and had a family movie night. Mya really loved it and so did Lily. We watched Alvin and the Chipmunks the Squeakual and Lily was dancing to the music. The kids had a blast and Mike and I had fun watching them.

Yesterday Mike had to attend a High School Graduation of his poolee's (The young men and women who have contracted to join the Marine Corps, but haven't left yet). So he left at 6pm last night and was gone for a few hours for that. I put the kids to bed myself and waited for him to get home. We watched the Hit List which was really good before falling into bed.