I was falling asleep during the boys naptime and the phone rang, I didn't want to get up and hang up on another political recording so I just let it ring. Then the voice mail picks up and it's not a political caller it's Tom's Air Force Recruiter, I fly across the room to the phone because Micah and Riah have answered it on speaker phone. His recruiter said it's urgent that I speak to Tom and he's not answering his phone. I assure him I will locate him and have him call back ASAP. I call Tom a dozen times and NO answer by this time I am panicing. I don't know if THIS is the CALL or not and don't know what to do so I called my Father in law who has Tom's bosses number because I just feel it in my bones that this is urgent. I call his boss and he says he's track him down and have him call me.
Every 10 minutes or so I try Tom again and FINALLY he answers the phone. I quickly tell him to call the recruiter and he does. About 10 minutes later he calls and says what are you doing? I said nothing ( waiting patiently for whatever news he just received) He says are you sitting down? Yes! DO you have a minute to talk? YES! What's going on? Well I just talked to the recruiter and he offered me and job and I ship out on Tuesday. TUESDAY????? Yes now I have to go I will talk to you later. My heart leaps out of my chest and I frantically call my mom who is unable to understand a word I say. Then I call various other people including one of my good friends who gets off work instantly and heads for my house. I was just sitting in shock yet 50 million things were running through my mind of ok what do we do NOW? 2 hours later seemed like 2 weeks later Tom came home and said I quit my job it's official it's starting now.
The past few days have been hectic and crazy. We woke up Saturday morning and got the kids ready and shuffled through paper work and headed to Colorado Springs to drop the kids off with Tom's cousin and his wife that so graciously decided to take them for the day so we could go and talk to his recruiter. Then his cousin took on a tour of the base since we'd never been on one before. We came back and ate dinner and crashed. The next day we went to church and tried to hold in the tears, and then spent the rest of the day at his parents house. Came home and packed him up, and went to bed. Next day we took the kids to our wonderful friends house so they could keep them for what we thought was going to be a night. Then we took a wild goose chase around Canon City getting some paper work taken care of. Headed back to the recruiters office for Tom's final farewell to him. Decided on some lunch since neither of us had, had an appetite in that past few days. Then we headed to Denver and went shopping for a record able story book for Tom to read to the boys so they could hear his voice whenever they wanted to. While he did that I went to get halloween costumes for the boys since Tom didn't want to see them since he didn't get to take them trick or treating this year. Then we headed to the hotel to check in and walked around down town until dark, said our goodbyes and I drove to Pueblo to stay the night with his parent so his dad could drive me back for the swear in so I wouldn't be alone. We got there at 7am and then finally around 11am Tom came and found us to tell us that he was NOT shipping out that day because they didn't get him a flight so he would be in Denver another day, I then call and beg one of my friends to come and get me later that night so I can spend one more day with Tom since his dad had to head back to Pueblo to take care of his mom. My friend agreed so after about another hour of waiting or maybe 2 we got his paper work and walked back to the hotel to drop off his stuff and then just walked up and down the 16th street mall all day and had dinner with our good friends that came to rescue me, had a long goodbye and then the next day Tom swore in and was off to Lack Land Air Force Base in San Antonio TX.
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