On Monday night, Kendall and I were getting ready for bed when he drops a HUGE bombshell that will prevent us from fostering and adopting for probably at least one year, if not longer. HE IS GOING TO JOIN THE AIR FORCE in October. Both of his parents served in the Air Force for many years (his Dad was in it for 40 years). Kendall has ALWAYS DREAMED of going to military school and joining the Air Force, but several road blocks prevented him from joining.
Several weeks ago, Kendall was looking for available jobs in his field (his current job will probably be moving out of state soon). He came across a link for the Air Force and although thinking he was too old now to join, he decided to look into it. He found out that he had until he was 39 to enlist (he is 35 now). He became SO EXCITED at finding that out and knew instantly that that is what he was going to do. He thought long and hard about all of the pro's and con's but decided that the pro's outweighed the con's (I will write about them later).
He already thought about what this would do with our plans to foster and adopt and he is so sorry to put them on hold, but he feels like this is what is best for our family. We are still going to have the home inspection and take the classes but there won't be time to foster, let alone adopt. We both however whole heartedly agreed that signing up to foster and adopt will be our TOP priority when we arrive at our first state-side base.
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