Just a little introduction to Suitcase living.....after living in our beloved Texas for 7 years, and enduring deployments and other assignments which separated our family, we decided to chop down our Texas roots, and replant them in South Korea. We have lived here before and so enjoyed it. So while my Mister has served in the military for 25 years and was ready to retire after his last deployment, we decided to get one last "hoorah" out of the military and head overseas to give our kids the world...well, at least the eastern half of it. This move of course meant I would be giving up my precious little antique business and relinquishing my volunteer positions and leaving my wonderful friends behind that became such a great support system while the Mister was away. It was a tough decision, but I know it was the right one, just because of what we are going to experience here. With the help of friends and family and army movers, we split up our worldly possessions, half to storage and half to be sent on a boat to Korea. Around the 19th of December, 2012, we put two weeks of clothing in a suitcase, and have been living out of one ever since. We finally arrived to our pseudo-final home on January 2nd. We are in a hotel until our apartment is ready. It is not easy living in a two room hotel suite with a 14 year old and a nine year old sharing a very uncomfortable fold out couch and one bathroom and still living out of a suitcase! There is a very dim light at the end of the tunnel...we are being told the beginning of March should be our "go date" to move in. I really hope so....we have endured temporary assignments, deployments and everything else the military can throw at you, I would hate for it to all come to a pathetic ending because 250 square feet of living space did us in (ha ha).
Besides my Mister and the ducklings (my 14 and 9 year old), one of my other passions is decorating. It will be a challenge decorating a military house/apartment, but I know it can be done. I will be posting plenty of photos of what I have hopefully made into a home. I know my decorating style is not everyone's style, but I hope if you have found my blog and you are moving here to Korea, you will get a sense of what to bring over here and hopefully make your move a little easier. I only say this because there just is not enough information out there about what spouses should pack or bring. Just in the two months we have been here, I have heard so many spouses say they did not know what to bring, how much, etc., I hope maybe my blog can give a spouse an inkling of what to bring and they will be hopeful about getting past the basic walls of military housing and make it as personal as one can with government quarters and government furniture.
Our other passion is travel. We are beyond ecstatic about where our adventures will take us. Our first big trip is currently planned for Hong Kong. But there is so much to see and discover here in Korea, we have been so busy on the weekends discovering all it has to offer. I think we could live in Korea for 5 years and never experience everything here!
Until next time.......
