So Jason and I are coming up on our one year anniversary in NC. We were talking just the other night about how our knowledge of the military has increased in the past year...but that is not the only thing that has happened this past year. I feel the need to commemorate our first year in NC...my first year out of my beloved state of OK. A lot has happened...join me as I record it for posterity's sake...or something like that...
Okay so first I must state that I love OK. I love it...I love our state song...I love the fact that our state flower is really a fungus...I love that we have the best Mexican food...I love OU...even more now that I live in NC and don't have to deal with really annoying and obnoxious OU fans...I love that our state isn't anything really to look at but very rarely do you meet someone who has lived in OK (and I have met a few on this little military base) who doesn't mention how great the people are...and they are great!!
...but I have learned a few things in the past year...and have seen the divine hand that led us to this little state called NC...
*God doesn't just reside in OK...we have found an amazing church family here in NC!! We are growing and being challenged and I can't tell you what a blessing it is!!
*When in the military, it doesn't pay to take your time getting to know people...jump in with two feet... I have met some amazing women this year and my life has been enriched by the love and openness I have received from these women!
*I have gained a whole new respect for the families that are sending their sailors/soldiers/marines off to far away places and are being left behind...hoping and praying their loved one comes back. The courage it takes to let them go and keep life going as if it is "normal" is astounding.
*The beach is great but the sand really stinks!!
*There are good people everywhere!
*There are also Walmarts and Targets everywhere...and so one can survive.
*There is nothing like watching a room full of sailors and marines stand at attention when the colors are presented.
*I can survive away from my family.
*Just because I have a baby in NC doesn't mean he is a tarheel...what is a tarheel anyway? I can't find one North Carolinian that can tell me.
*My home is where Jason is...this has been one of the biggest lessons I have learned...
I went back to OK last December for a few weeks. J could only join us for one of those weeks. It was funny....I had anticipated my trip "home". I had planned and dreamed about what I wanted to do while I was there but once I got there...it just didn't work out like I thought. I loved being in OK but something was missing...he was missing....one of the biggest lessons I have learned this past year is that Jason and Liam and Eliana and now my sweet Leyton are my home...it has very, VERY little to do with geography...if anything at all and seems to have the most to do with the people. I still miss OK...mostly the family and friends...and the Vietnamese food and Mexican food...but this is where I belong because the people I belong with are here...
Happy One Year Anniversary to us!!!!
tara
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