Another Step Complete

Two days ago I completed another step in the adoption process. As my friends and family, and now strangers who happen to come across this blog, know, I am in the military, and one of the things that military forces do is deploy to places we don't want to go so you don't have to. In the next couple of months the unit I am in is set to deploy, and as far as they knew, I was planning on going right along with them.

As soon as I'd found out about the impending deployment, I made sure to let my chain of command know about my situation. I was instructed to write a memorandum (a letter, for civilians) to my battalion commander informing him of the situation I am in. The adoption process had begun before Lindsey and I found out about the adoption, so I wanted to make sure they knew everything.

Well, as a result — and I don't know this for sure — I will probably be moving to the other battalion in the brigade that just recently returned from a deployment. This has its pluses and minuses, but the important thing is that they are willing to work with me when they could have told me that I would just have to wait until we got back, which would make us lose Banana.