Being a grown up is hard work!

The last few days have been CRAZY! My little family is here in New Jersey visiting with some of Hubby's family. We have also been traveling to maryland for him to take a few police tests. The good news is he passed them all! I am so proud of him! The hard part is now having to decide what we are going to do. Pack up our lives and accept a job on the east coast, or have him reenlist and go another twelve years with him in the military. 

Both decisions have their good and bad points...

Taking the Maryland job:

PROS...

Experiencing another part of the country

Getting out of the military

Hubby getting to be close to his family

G getting to be around his other grandparents more

Experiencing more than one season

Meeting new people

CONS...

Moving away from my family and friends

Having to suffer through a snowy winter season

The uncertainty of what life will be like taking this job

Not making as much money

Potentially having G in daycare so I can work

Reenlisting:

PROS...

A guaranteed paycheck for the next 12 years

Retirement

Benefits like health insurance

CONS...

Deployments 

Not having a say about where we live or how long we live there

Being on military time

Never being able to establish a life somewhere

I'm stressed out. But I can't even come close to imagining how stressed out my husband it. Whatever decision he makes not only affects him, but his wife and kid as well. He carries that weight around with him and I feel terrible. 

I wish this was an easy decision.