I had my new baby Carson on October 21st. Unfortunately Ben has been in school and was unable to get the paperwork needed to get Carson's passport started until after his graduation. We finally made it to the office on November 9th and had to submit his birth certificate with application. The passport takes 6-8 weeks to get back and they won't issue him a plane ticket until they have the passport back. This is going to be cutting it really close, so I'm just crossing my fingers that it gets here in time.
After the passport we go next door to find out if we can fly to Germany out of Cleveland or Pittsburgh since that is where we will be on PCS leave at, instead of flying out of St. Louis. They told us we could but they will only reimburse us the cost of the govt flight out of St. Louis. When they check the prices they tell us we will be out about $1200 after the reimbursement. So looks like we will have to find a way to fly out of St. Louis. We just have to figure out how we are going to get the truck back to Ohio for storage.
We go upstairs to register Carson in DEERS and TriCare and we need Carson's birth certificate. Thankfully we did this on the same day we got his passport and not the day after or we would not have been able to register him. Ben had to run down stairs, get the birth cert., and come back up. At TriCare only 1 person could go in the office and the rest of us had to wait in the waiting room. After Ben went in to register him Carson started crying because he was hungry, so I stood up to try to calm him. Maddox took that as a sign that it was time to run around the hallways. I couldn't let him do this because the car seat and bag were left sitting on the floor by our seats. Maddox got halfway down the hall and I stopped him and took his hand to lead him back toward our stuff. He decided to fall on the ground and throw a tantrum, which escalated Carson's crying. I dragged Maddox back to our seat and unsuccessfully tried to get both kids to stop crying. Thankfully a nice lady came out of the office down the hallway and brought Maddox a Snoopy stuffed animal. That calmed him down for a little while, but I still had the little one crying his eyes out.
Finally, Ben is done with the registration. We still don't have our hard copy orders because we had to enroll Carson into EFMP then wait for him to get added to the orders and wait for the new family travel authorization to get back from Germany. So we can't schedule a date with the movers or get any tickets until that is done. Ben said he doubts his report date will change even if his orders take a month to get here. So we went ahead an gave our Rental Managers our 30 day notice on the house. If the movers can't get here by the 10th of December I guess we'll have to talk to them about changing our move-out date. I hope they are understanding.
We head home and in addition to all this, Ben tells me "By the way, you might have to come after me if there is not housing available." Are you kidding me??? I'm just imagining flying to Germany with a 2 year old, 2 month old, 2 dogs, and all of our luggage....by myself. My mom better be saving her frequent flyer miles so she can come with me. Ohhhh, the stress....
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