Recruiting Hell Part II

We spent a wonderful, fun-filled month in Florida. Went to Disney, went to Sea World, and spent a lot of time with Kale's family. His grandma was giving us a dining suite, table, chairs, hutch, and corner china cabinet. We were towing it behind our van all the way back to MA. His parents were coming with us to help us. We head out on a Friday and by the time we hit the border of VA there is a freaking blizzard going on all the way up the coast, all weekend long. By this time Aidan and Lilly are starting to get sick and I am worried. It's Kale and his dad driving our van, towing the trailer, and they have the dog and cat. Kale's mom is driving me and the girls in their van, SCARY. She is not known for her steller driving, as a matter of fact not two months before she rolled her van, on the highway.



We hit the blizzard and it hits us hard. When we pull into our hotel you can't even see across the parking lot. Everything was closed and the girls were so misreable with colds. The next morning I decide they need cold medicine and ibuprofen, my MIL doesn't think the cars will make it out of the parking lot, so she decides to walk to the grocery store, across the street, in a blizzard, in knee deep snow. After 2 hours, Kale is very worried, rightly so his mom is a clutz and falls often. Just as he's going out to find her, she comes trudging up the parking lot.



We wait it out a day and then head out again. Blizzard is still working it's way north, as are we. We get to Maryland and decide to stop there, we can go no further that night. Then we head out again in the morning, the snow had finally ceased. We get to our house late afternoon, the driveway has been plowed, but has a sheet of ice 3inches thick on top of the blacktop. Kale and his dad each take turns trying to back our trailer into the garage, unsuccessfully. They are not the most handy of men. The instead unhook the trailer and push it into the garage.



At this point my poor girls are sooooo sick. I can wait no longer, I have to take them to the ER. Kale's dad wants to wait until we get to Conway NH that night. We were going to spend the next few days up there waiting for our household goods to arrive, the storm had pushed our date back. My FIL cousin and wife were going to host us for the next few nights. It's another 5-6 hr drive and at this point I know the girls have ear infections and are in dire need of antibiotics. I don't want to wait and I put my foot down. MIL and I take them to the ER and wait forever, then get the meds and head back to the house. We all leave and head up to Conway, getting there very late.



We spend to nice days with Kale's family. Shopping and having fun. Other than his "Uncles" constant drinking and smoking we have a wonderful time. We head back to the house after a couple of days. We find out on Wednesday the day our stuff arrived, that Kale was to be AT work the very next day. URGH! This is where mistake #2 came into play.



Mistake#2) We stupidly assumed every fluffy, fun detail they were feeding Kale in recruiting school was going to be truth. They told us that after he signed in they'd give us a whole month to get settled in our house before he would have to work. That's why we spent our month off in FL and not in MA getting the house ready. More "promises" will come out later in the story.



So the next day he goes to work, our house completly full of boxes and his parents are leaving the next day. Not only does he have to work Thursday and Friday, but Saturday too! OH MY GOD! I was livid. Friday he gets home well after 5pm and we are driving 2 hrs to go visit his Great Aunt, it's Aidan's 1st b-day and she wants to do the party for us. We had a nice time, her house is very small, even smaller than the one we were living in. His parents help as much as possible on Saturday, we get the girls rooms, the living room, and the kitchen set up. The rest of the boxes were residing in our bedroom.



Sunday they leave and Kale and I try to go through more boxes. I am so overwhelmed and upset at this point I practically shut down. Life as I knew it was gone.



To be continued.....