It's Almost Time to Move Again? How Can That Be?

Each time we PCS, I think we'll have all kinds of time to get out, see the sights, socialize with newly-made friends and make the most of our time in a new town. When we moved here, we knew it was a short assignment, but we vowed to pack in as much as we possibly could.

You already know where I'm going with this, don't you?

Last week, I hosted a wives brunch at my house. I'm blessed to be in a group with some fantastic milspouses. Each time I'm around them, I am reminded of how much fun it is to get together. I'm keenly aware that once we leave here, we'll never see most of the people we've become friends with again. Ever. This is a terrible thought. I was reminded of this when one of the spouses said, "Can you believe there's only three months left?" Wow.....

We haven't visited half of the sights we had intended to see while here. We haven't had the geobachelors over for dinner yet. I haven't followed through on a promise to myself to arrange a girl's day out at a local day spa, on and on and on.

I'm now scrambling to make the most of our remaining three months, and I'm having something of a panic attack. There's so much I still want to do before leaving, but my schedule over the next several weeks involves a lot of travel and a lot of work. It's going to be hard to carve out time for all that I want to accomplish over the next twelve weeks. So, now I'm left trying to prioritize an unrealistic to-do list, and I'm not getting very far.

I know I'll leave here wishing I had fit everything in somehow. And I'll arrive at the next duty station with high hopes. I'll say to myself, once again, "we have plenty of time." And before I know it, we'll be moving again. And the cycle will continue.

Where does the time go?

Comments

[Vypergirl]

That happens to me all the time too! We haven't been to too many place, but there is always alot I want to do at each place we have been! We should be here long enough for me to accomplish, oh maybe half of those things!

[Sly2017]

"Where does the time go?"

Oh that's easy. It goes into the Dryer Twilight Zone with the socks.
I thought everyone knew that.
0>;~}

[Semper Fi Wife]

I think the only place where I was able to do the majority of things I'd planned to was Cairo.
That was my year of touring and shopping dangerously..:)

I think the one thing that I wanted to do and didn't was go to Israel.

[Marine Wife]

Sly took my answer!

I find myself in the same predicament with the added stress of needing to accomplish about a year's worth of pre-PCS (non-fun) stuff, all that stuff I put on the backburner during the deployment. I told my husband that what I really need is a administrative assistant. Too bad I can't afford one and the kids are still too young to be voluntold to do certain things.
*sigh*

[dizzylizzie]

see the sights that interest you and your family. forget the rest. dont sweat the small stuff.

[Butterfly Wife]

I've lived here for 6 years and I am beginning to feel the pressure of moving in 4 months. I think I just want to spend time with certain people I am not likely to see often, if ever again. I think I've done pretty much everything I wanted to do.

[Laura, a Military Mom]

Those of us on the other side coming to visit you before you PCS...when #2 son & wife were in Belgium we were only able to afford one trip to Europe to see then and all the sights...there just wasn't enough time! So I'm hoping that in their future they will return, this time to Germany, so we can pick up where we left of..or DC would be good since we haven't been there either!:) But in the mean time we have them home for at least one more year:)