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We are home in Arizona... safe and sound. 

We have hit the ground RUNNING and so I don't have any time.  We have Ryan for 2 precious weeks and then we say goodbye for a while.  I'll be back later when things slow a bit but I wanted to come and say thank you for all of your prayers over these months of frustrations... 

Courtney

NEWS! Yippee!!!!

I only have a moment... but we have tickets!  We are out of Turkey this week.  Ryan will have two weeks to settle us in, say his goodbyes, enjoy family and then he's on a plane back to Turkey and then a deployment and we won't see him again until 2014. 

The flat out battle to get out of here has resulted in two IG investigations and a bunch of people are going to get in trouble... That seems to be our lot in life. 

We are rock turners. 

I guess that's a calling too.  sigh...

So it's Tuesday, we got our tickets on Monday... we have about 24 hours left to pack and close down the house and and and... When things start to move around here they MOVE! 

I'll try to come back and let you know when we are finally in AZ!

Courtney

No news is good news? WRONG!

I have put off coming back because I'm so sick of writing negative things and giving bad news and feeling like my life is one drama after another.  However, there is news and I may as well give it.

I need your prayers.  Things are ugly here right now.  To go into detail would take more time than I have, be filled with acronyms you wouldn't understand, and flat out just be unbelievable.  I don't ever want anyone to come here, read my blog, and wonder if I'm for real... and yet, somehow, every time I read it myself that's what I'm thinking!

Basically, we have dealt with unreal ego, lost paperwork, shady restrictions, and now one man has put a medical hold on my ERD, at literally the very last minute, because he's sure he can find a Turkish doc who will agree to treat me.  Thus we enter a legal battle because I will refuse off base treatments (I am within my rights to do so due to the nature of my illness and certain other things about medical here that I can't talk about) but it will be long and ugly and will leave me stuck here in Turkey while Ryan still has to deploy. 

I need prayers for favor, resolution, and some peace of mind... because frankly I'm about to lose it!

Delayed AGAIN!

"Why me Lord?  What have I ever done?"

Well, we are delayed for yet another week.  This time because I got food poisoning.  Not the kind you get in the states that lasts for 12 to 24 hours and is horrible but short lived (don't think I'm saying it's not bad... I HATE food poisoning) but the stuff you hear about when people travel in to 2nd and 3rd world countries... because that's where I am. 

I ate off base, as I have done 100 times before... but I did it at the beginning of our summer... apparently they don't change the way they handle their food until it gets really hot and this is a common problem here.  GAG

I'm on day three of the sickest I have ever been in my adult life.  I spent a full 2 days in bed because I could barely stand up and today I'm couch bound.  I've lost 15 pounds so there's an upside... *insert weak laughter here*

So obviously I wasn't going to be on today's plane... Next week it is then... I believe that's our 5th delay now.  Seven weeks since I was told that I needed to be on the next plane out of the country...  but who's counting? 

Oh and that song up there?  I'm taking it out of context... it's a phenomenal song!

Why Me Lord by Kris Kristofferson

Why me Lord what have I ever done
To deserve even one of the pleasures I've known
Lord, what did I ever do
That was worth lovin' You or the kindness You've shown

Lord help me, Jesus, I've wasted it
so Help me Jesus I know what I am
But now that I know that I've needed You so
Help me, Jesus, my soul's in Your hand

Try me, Lord, if You think there's a way
I can try to repay all I've taken from You
Maybe Lord, I can show someone else
What I go through myself, on my way back to You

Lord help me, Jesus, I've wasted it so
Help me Jesus, I know what I am
But now that I know that I've needed You so
Help me, Jesus, my soul's in Your hand Jesus, my soul's in your hand

Game Change...

Military life dictates that at the drop of a hat your whole life can change... again...  I always expect it and I am always caught off guard. I suppose I have yet to perfect my "ever vigilant" stance.

We had a game change mid day...

We will all be on a plane next week (it was supposed to be last week but the wheels grind slowly) 

Ryan will have two weeks to get us settled and say his goodbyes. 

Then he will return to Turkey... alone... for the remainder of his tour.  This will include a deployment.

We are now back to living with my parents and expecting to see him sometime in January if everything goes through and there are no more surprises. 

I'm struggling with all the changes... and I'll admit that I'm disappointed.  I had made my peace with a long separation... then they said we wouldn't be apart for more than a few months and I let myself (I KNOW BETTER) get comfortable with that... and now it's time to pay the piper.

There are more details and reasons than I understand or have time to go into... but this is final (as final as anything can be)

We would as always appreciate any prayers and I'll be seeing you from America soon!

Courtney