Defence Force Families #2

[Chocaholic]

Hubby leaves for his deployment in 4 days. dreading it so bad... I hate army life atm!!

MrsBexie, how are you coping?

Well, we finally got our posting. We were promised it in July as we have been getting short posting cycles (have moved 3 times in 5 years) and this is going to be a full cycle hopefully.

Anyway, we are off to Amberley. We own a house in Ipswich so we might be forced to move into it but it was purchased prior to us having kids and is too small with too many steps and no fence on a busy road. Trying to get my DH to talk to DHA but he wants to wait a bit to see what they say. If he doesn't call them Monday, I will. I need to know where we are living ASAP so I can get a half decent school. DS1 will be there for 3 years if it is a full posting cycle and DS2 will start in 2014.

Good news though. My work has said that they will probably have a job for me in their Brisbane office if I want it.

[Chocaholic]

Well, DHA won't help out with a house as the house we own is apparently "suitable". Yeah right. We are looking privately but naturally there are no houses available for rent from January on the market at the moment. Also looking at houses on the market in case the perfect one comes up as we plan on buying when we are there.

Boys are handling the news of us moving very well but they are inviting everyone to come and live with us (being my parents, my sister and her kids, the neighbours, the ladies at daycare....).

Toll and DHA are coming to the house on the 10 September to do the look through to see how much stuff we have to move and what repairs (if any) we need to make to the house. DH has to get the inventory sorted ASAP so we can get the moving date we want (which is the 4th January) with uplift on the 3rd.