the mystery is revealed.

ok.
we found out where the next duty station is. i was so nervous when TJ called and told me he was branching as field artillary. but that's all he said. he just let that hang in the air.
all's i could say was "so i guess we're moving to el paso then?"
"among other places." was his reply.
ok.
i waited.

"how do you feel about............."


(drumroll please)


"new braunfels?"

"REALLY????!!" i all but screamed in to the phone.

i don't remember much about new braunfels other than that it's where schlitterbahn is. i went when i was 10, and maybe again when i was a teenager. that's all i remember. when you are a kid you don't really look around at a new town and think "this is great. i'd like to live here."
it's a small town, developing quickly. and has a lot of traffic i guess from folks coming in and out to float the river.
but it's only 1.5 hours from where we are now i suppose.

so that's it.
we'll be moving. well, at some point anyway.
i don't know that we are going to try and keep the house anymore since we are staying somewhat close to home.but i also don't know if we are going to be able to sell it quickly. so i bet what is going to happen is either A) TJ is going to commute each day until we get the house sold or B) he has friends that live close enough to our new location that he might stay with them during the week and come home on the weekends. and it will be up to me to do all the packing and deal with all the realtors til the house does sell.
there were 3 houses in our neighborhood for sale. they all went on the market at the same time - just about. 1 was listed with some generic company i have never heard of. the other 2 are with keller williams -a real popular realestate company. they actually had the listing for our house when we bought it. well the 2 that were listed with KW sold first. roughly at the same time.
the other one is still waiting.

either way we are not going to el paso and we can thank God for that!!! we prayed about it. and things did work in our favor.
of course, i suppose they have plenty of time to decide they want to send tj somewhere else. in the military they always say not to believe something is going to happen til it has already happened. but i am rejoicing anyway!