I held off a bit on writing this post because honestly, I had a bit of PTSD that I wasn’t quite ready to relive haha. So, for starters lets talk about just how long we were traveling. We left from our apartment in DC in the late morning. We had to be out by a …
Before heading off to Saudi Arabia Naomi and I made a quick one-week trip back home to WI. While seeing some family and friends was great, the main reason for the trip was so that both Naomi and I to get in some important Doctor visits and for me to run some essential errands. …
A weekend in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania Hi, its me, Mel. I’m sorry it’s been awhile since I’ve posted. Did you know that getting ready for a life changing move across the world can be stressful and take up lots of time and planning? Haha, well that’s where my brain has been lately. But I knew I …
One of the hardest parts about leaving home, was leaving behind family. And while technology is awesome and allows us to text, call, FaceTime, and use Facebook Portal with family members, its just not the same as being with them in person. So from the moment we got to our apartment in January we had …
When we moved to Pennsylvania in 2015 we knew that one of the places we would try to frequent as much as possible would be Washington DC. It was only an hour and half from our house so we went as much as we possibly could, checking out all of the well known memorials, Arlington …
Joel didn’t officially get sworn in until the Tuesday after we got here, so that Monday we used to shop for essentials and food. We started the morning off at Target, I mean honestly, where else would you go? And as luck would have it, we live literally right across the street from a Target, …
We left for DC on the morning of Friday January 14th. To be honest we set our expectations super low with how traveling in a car with our 18 month old would be. All we wanted to do was make it to Indianapolis the first night and Pittsburgh the second night. This would leave us …
Road tripping with a toddler! Getting to Arlington. Read More »
The start of a transition Joel received the offer for the State Department job the end of October while attending a Chinese Language Camp. I was alone at home with Naomi and we were given 6 days to decide what we wanted to do. Mind you, Joel wasn’t going to be home until after those …
