The Goings On....

School is in full swing. We are all in school this year and its been an adjustment. Lots of homework in the house!!

Taylor began dance classes at the Sandwich Dance Academy last week and she auditioned for the Nutcracker over the weekend. She loves taking ballet and jazz and loves wearing her dance clothes as well.

Travi starts competitive swimming this weekend. I am a little nervous about the commitment to this but he is such a fish I know he is going to do great. He will swim two nights a week and then again on Saturdays. There will also be swim competitions mixed in there at various places just off Cape. I am hoping between this and scouting he stays very busy through the winter.

With that, dreamsheet season is upon us. I have been waiting for this day for lets just say months and months and months. We are dreaming of billets in Alaska or the West Coast. Anything other then that and I will be balled up in the fetal position crying like a baby. Over the years I have taken well to the moving and lifestyle of Trav's career but dreamsheets and the waiting game stress me out like nothing else. I consider myself a patient person but I hate being at the mercy of the Coast Guard, open billets and the detailers. There is nothing like wanting to live in a certain place and all of the hinging on so many factors you have absolutely no control over.

I am really great at setting up a plan for our family in my mind. Its pretty black and white. While there are gray areas in life, they don't exist in this place in my mind. We are together in a place we love where its green and lush. We camp and we fish. Trav goes hunting and we even have a home. I have my friends and family there too. Then.....I snap back into reality and remember that our lives our not our own just yet. We have so many factors to this equation. The Coast Guard owns Trav for another 8 years and therefore, they determine where we will go. I love the adventure of this life but right now, during this time of year I have a knot in my stomach and lose sleep.

In the end, what will be..will be. We will go where we are meant to go. In the mean time, I will be really stressed out!

To help make myself feel better I have been baking. Food therapy always helps. The other night I tried my first attempt at homemeade donuts. They actually turned out delicious. I think I may have cooked them a bit to long but they still tasted really good.



I didn't think about tranfer season at all while making these yummy donuts!