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Saturday, April 5, 2014

Adjusting to life as an officers wife

So here we are! We have made it through the academy! Here are a few pictures from graduation week.




Still not sure if should/can share pictures of my officer so to be safe these are fun group pictures. :)

And he is now out on the road! At least on break in that is. We finally feel like a married couple, which is still weird but fun. Even though he is out on 12 hour shifts at least I know he comes home to me every night :) So the next 3 months are going to be about our journey of break in and being newlyweds. So far it has been good! I am learning to re-balance being a wife, teacher and business owner while he is learning the husband-officer role but as his schedule changes every 3-4 weeks right now we will be doing a lot of re-balancing. His first schedule is actually very different than we thought it would be. Since their FTOs are more senior status they have better schedules like weekends off. But not my guy which is actually just fine with me. lol Instead of being on A Watch (5a-5p) first like most of the other guys he is on B Watch (10a-10p). And most of the other guys work Mon-Thurs, he works Thurs-Sun. Now this is actually a perfect schedule for me (except for Sundays bc we enjoy going to church together) but I am a morning person so we get to get up together an have breakfast. I get to help make sure he has all he needs for lunch and we just get to enjoy the morning. and on the weekends is when most people like to have parties or events so I have a few things scheduled already. So we get to have date night on Tuesdays when things are not so crowded and crazy. So April will a pretty good month. Lets just pray that May doesn't change it too dramatically :) So far loving the life of an officer's wife!