Bear's D-day

Yesterday was Bear's so-called D-day, as he had to make the decision about signing a DCSS (Declination of Continued Service Statement aka dec statement) in regards to his recruiting orders. He wants nothing to do with recruiting (and neither do I!) because we would never see him. Recruiters generally work at least 6 days a week and at least 10 hours a day. And that's if things are going well for them. If he was having a hard time getting new recruits in, we would almost never see him as the hours a day and number of days a week to work would drastically increase. Did I mention that recruiting is a 3 year tour? He might as well be deployed...at least then he would get paid better for his time away from the family (not that we want that either!). When Bear went in to meet with the Army Career Counselor, the counselor wanted to know why Bear intended to get out now and if there was anything he could do to change Bear's mind. Bear mentioned to him that he wants absolutely nothing to do with recruiting and that before he came down on orders for recruiting, he had considered reenlisting if we could go to Germany. The counselor then asked what Bear would do if he could make his recruiting orders disappear and get us on orders to Germany. Bear had less than 4 hours to give him an answer. To make an extremely long conversation a little shorter, we came to the decision that it would still be better for him to sign the dec statement and get out rather than to keep playing the Army game. Bear loves being a Soldier and is a very good one, but it seems to us that God is asking us to take a leap of faith with him getting out, so that is what we are going to do. Sure Germany would be awesome for 3 years...living on the economy, all the traveling and site seeing, we would be debt free in less than 6 months, Bear would get promoted at least once more, and it would be just incredible for the whole family! So many enticements and temptations, but, Bear could still deploy, and then the 3 girls and I would be stuck there completely by ourselves and there is no way the Army would move us back to the states just because of that. We think we are on the right path with what God wants us to do with Bear getting out. We got over our moment of temporary insanity, and are more excited now for him getting out than we had been!