"I Got The Job!"

"I got the job!"  

Now, most housewives would be jumping for joy, but upon hearing this announcement, I thought, "Oh, God... please... anywhere but ..." and then he said:
"Kuwait!"

Seriously? Kuwait?  Qatar, maybe.  We have friends there. That would have been quite alright actually, but I was really hoping for Germany, or England.  Just some place more familiar.  Kuwait? I know nothing about this place, other than it's hot, it's small, and its population is mostly muslim.  That's about it.  I was also hoping for a place more temperate.  Temperate would have been nice because in my old age of thirty- shoomeeshoo, I'm at the point now where Florida weather is just too hot for me.  I couldn't imagine living anywhere hotter.  As it is, I don't work out till about 7PM just to avoid having to deal with the heat here.  Yikes!  My bigger concerns about moving away? Homeschooling our three children in a strange new place, finding a church, adequate healthcare for our youngest battling autism and verbal apraxia... I can't imagine what it's going to be like in Kuwait!  The alternative is going back to what we've done for the past three and a half years: a geographically separated family.  As interesting as it was having a husband living and working overseas these past few years, our family is more than ready to actually live together in the same time zone again.  Needless to say, in this respect, Kuwait is a blessing, as we can actually go with him this time (his last contract was on an army base in Afghanistan ... not family friendly if you know what I mean).  For now, it's still all up in the air as this move is not official ... yet.  My husband was given only a verbal go ahead over the phone (that was last Friday and today is Tuesday).  We are still waiting for the offer letter to show up in his email.

In the meantime, I've been looking for other families online who have already traveled this road we're heading on in order to learn as much as I can about this new place we'll be calling home for the next year, and the process involved with getting there. 

I am praying this will be an interesting adventure for our family (as a matter of fact, as soon as my husband made this announcement to our family, he led us in prayer precisely to address this issue).  As apprehensive as I may be about this move, a part of me can't help but be excited about starting a new life somewhere else... together, as a family.

Here are links to two blogs of families who have gone on before us:

http://kuwaitftw.blogspot.com/

http://healthyheartshappyhome.blogspot.com/search/label/Kuwait