My Precious Spoon..

I am at my first military assignment and due to some poor planning and entrusting the wrong family member to handle TMO I sit here without my household belongings. I did buy one of those inflatable mattresses and it sits way tall. I also bought a few plastic chairs at Kmart - so i would not be sitting on the floor. Still a long way from the lap of luxury.

I am eating out most every evening as my kitchen things are not here and it is pointless to attempt cooking without pots and pans or my good knives.

I have one spoon. I saved it from an MRE and I use it for everything. It is a sturdy plastic and when I wake up I scoop my coffee, eat my cereal and spread peanut butter on my bread all with the one spoon. before I leave in the morning i wash the spoon and put it away in the cabinet where it waits for my return later in the day.

My belongings may or may not arrive by mid March, but I will not let that get me down. i will focus on what I do have control over and that is well whatever the military tells me I have control over.

There really is no reason or benefit from complaining or becoming frustrated. The situation is what it is and if nothing else I have learned from mistakes I have made and from the process in general. My next PCS will bee so much smoother because of this experience.