In January, there was this:
Life took off like a speeding bullet! After some sad moments in early April (Shane's mom passed away) and joyful moments of my mom, sister and the twins coming up to visit things started to settle into a "normal" pattern for us. We'd been waiting on what the Army calls a "med board" for Shane. He has lost a significant amount of hearing during his deployment and they felt that he was no longer fit for duty and that they wanted him out of the Army. (I won't go into my bitter rant about this here because I'm actually finally coming to grips with the fact that God has bigger and better plans for us outside of the Army.)
After many months of waiting and not knowing and back and forth with the Army, we finally got word in late October about Shane's disability ratings. Shortly after, his orders were cut and he will be able to sign out of the Army on December 7, 2013 and is officially medically retired from the U.S. Army as of January 28, 2014. At the beginning of this I was upset that we (he) didn't have a longer career in the Army, some do 20 + years and though that was not our goal or intent, we had planned on another 6 or so years, making it to the 10 yr mark and reevaluating things then, but that is not what happened. God has bigger plans for us. So, as of right now, I can't think straight about what I want to post but I will be posting about our experience and the process that our family has gone through with this situation in the future. I want to be a help and someone that other families going through what we are going through can reach out to with questions and uncertainties that the process comes with. For now, I leave you with 100% cuteness
