Semper Gumby

The Marine Corps wife embraces “Semper Gumby” just as the men live by their motto “Semper Fidelis.” Our Marines “Always Faithful” to their duty, means the wives’ duty is to be “Always Flexible.” In the past few weeks since we received confirmation of our move to Okinawa, we’ve been scrambling to secure the moving dates…undergo medical and dental screenings…waiting for area clearance…applying for official passports…appointments after appointments. Having gone back n forth on different moving scenarios, we’ve already adjusted moving dates several times. We finally thought we had it all figured out, with shipments scheduled next week, housing applications ready to go, and ready to request our flights. Ah yes, now we that we’ve hurried, we wait…again.

After contacting his command in Oki, turns out they would rather have Danno arrive after NJS. This is actually what we were pushing to do from the start, but was unsuccessful. Some reason everything was set out for us to report prior to NJS, which meant we leave right away in mid Dec. We now have both Oki and Quantico working on it, and it seems promising that we will know the final verdict before we leave to Thanksgiving. So we are already thankful for the possibility of pushing back the move dates. And it will feel good to know if we will have the chance to see you California faces again after this weekend, or if we should actually be saying our last goodbyes! Semper Gumby everyone.