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The College Search Continued

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The final college email came in today!  So that makes... Five college applications submitted.  Five college acceptance letters.  Five merit based scholarship offers.  Three, three-year Army ROTC scholarship offers.  But no final decision yet.  Stay tuned...I think he’s close! 

Two Questions

Two questions that I've been asked pretty much every day of the last month have been, "do y'all where you're going next?" and "has Henry picked a school yet?". I felt pretty confident saying "we won't know our next assignment until probably April" and "he hasn't but he's almost positive he's going to Montana State. " I was wrong on both.  We found out last week that Matt is going to be the next AFSOC Command Surgeon at Hurlburt Field. It's an incredible opportunity for him but it does mean another two years here. It took me about 12 hours to fully wrap my head around that, but I'm getting more excited now. In reality, we've only had about 7 months of regular life here in Florida. The last year has just been pandemic and isolation, and oh, that damn election cycle. Life in no way has been normal. I'm going to be hopeful that in another six months we'll start slowly getting back to real life. There