| Dokota – Grades: 9th | 10th | Xavier – Grades: 5th | 6th |
| Kauchana – Grades: 7th | 8th | Derric – Grades: 2nd | 3rd |
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August
Category: Derric, Dokota, Kauchana, Kids' School, Xavier
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25
December
Merry Christmas from our Family to yours.
Sorry there have been lack of updates here. Lets just say I am finally getting the chance to sit down and think of this.
Here are updates!
We moved out of our place and into TLF on the 14th. On the 15th, 16th, and 19th the packers were there, packing everything up. Finalled out of the house on the 22nd. Worked on cleaning and organizing everything between the 19th and the 22nd. So happy we were able to final out on the pre-inspection. Took one piece of stress off my back.
Kevin worked on out processing from the base. Due to the amount of stuff we had going on, I sometimes had to ride with so I would be able to meet my appointments. It was a lot of back and forth between both Bitburg and Spang. I think we put more miles on our poor van these past two weeks then we had the year we have had it.
Friday we dropped the van off to get detailed for shipping. Picked up a rental. Ouch on price. Kevin thought he was quoted USD price and relayed it to me. When we got there, found out (after paying) it was EURO. So we had a bit of an issue with our bank due to that. (budgeted the price in USD, NOT the conversion.) The van will be shipped Tuesday.
Kevin and I would love to say we are enjoying the weekend, as it gives us time to relax…. Nope, we spent yesterday doing lots of running around, and not relaxing. Got up early today instead of sleeping in…
But only because I promised the kids a big breakfast. Since I wont be spending the day doing my normal Christmas cooking, I made up Breakfast Burritos and muffins for the kids. Santa even made a stop by last night.
Since I will only be fixing a dinner today, I might get to relax a little. We shall see. The kids are curled up with their stuff, being typical teens. Dokota on his iPod, Kauchana reading. Xavier trying to fall asleep, Derric playing around with his imaginary world. Such a quiet day.
08
December
Well, we have hit full speed mode. It seems all the waiting around wondering what was going on has ended and we are now moving twice as fast to accomplish all we need to do in a very short amount of time.
The kids’ school unenrollment has been submitted.
Derric’s papers and files will be picked up on the 16th. They are going to be looking over all his stuff to make sure I leave with the most up to date IEP and progress reports as they can get for him. Once they get me those in hard copy and PDF format, I will need to go by EDIS to get his file from there.
Kauchana’s team is looking to have an IEP meeting before she is unenrolled to also get her latest copy and make sure all is up to date. Again, need her hard copy and PDF file and she will be done.
Xavier was honestly the easiest to unenroll. I will be contacted when his file is done and I can sign for it.
Dokota was an interesting snag. Ok, honestly, it wasn’t interesting, it was down right stressful. Because we did not have a 30 day advanced notice of leaving (actually having orders in hand 30 days out), they were talking about not letting him claim his credits for the semester. I walked in on Tuesday (Monday I had running to do and didn’t make it by the HS) with orders to get him going. They said it was too late to allow him to accelerate to get his full credits. I was livid. After informing them that I brought them orders as quickly as I could from us getting them, it wasn’t his or our fault we got the orders so close to us leaving. The principal was at first sympathetic saying ok, he will see what he can do by talking to the school board. But then he read the orders and found that there is a late February Report date. He suddenly changed his tune of wanting to help to basically stating we needed to let Dokota stay and finish out the semester. I told him that was impossible as once we are out processed from the base, Dokota looses his command sponsorship and we do not have the funds to pay the $2,000 tuition fee for him to stay for half a month. He agreed to still look into it for Dokota to accelerate and I said I would be back the next day. Went back and all was good. He is going to accelerate to get as much of his semester credit as he can get.
Today we had our pre-inspection for the movers to show up and start packing. They will start on the 15th, pack the 15th, 16, and 19th. We are going to be moving into TLF on the 14th.
This weekend we will be having a mini Christmas for the kids.
We are at breakneck speeds now…
Very sad to think, we have only a couple more weeks left in country before we had back to the States. But back we will be… and soon… Very soon.