The Best Laid Plans
After nearly a decade of writing about PCSing, you’d think I’d have it down by now. But every move brings a new set of issues.
It’s Hitting Me…
My husband and I have been working like fiends to get ready for our latest PCS.
In our haste to ready the house for its new occupants, I have not fully wrapped my head around leaving the place I’ve called home for nearly four years.
It is starting to hit me now.
And while I will be happy [...]
Meeting with Transportation
With summer being the busiest PCS season, April and May are the hardest months to schedule a meeting with the transportation department on your installation. Getting our orders in January, we, of course, waited until April to schedule our meeting.
We luckily grabbed a spot, just as JPSO started scheduling group meetings to accommodate the increased [...]
The Junk Room
I have a junk room. I think most people have a junk “space” of some sort in their homes. I use a spare bedroom in our basement as our catch-all for boxes of holiday decorations, the kids’ ton of art supplies and pretty much everything else I haven’t found a good, tidy place for in [...]
Preparing for the Packers
“You’re so lucky, the Army comes and packs all your stuff and moves it for you.”
I’ve heard this several times from non-military friends in recent weeks, now that our PCS is looming ever closer on the horizon.
Sometimes I tell them, “yes, but I have to get everything ready for the packers and the movers.” And, [...]
The Orders
I opened the email from my husband on a cold, January morning with a mixture of excitement, panic and dread.
Our orders had come.
A million things rushed through my mind: I had to call my parents, to let them know we’d soon only be a day’s drive away, instead of two or three; what would I [...]
