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Exciting Things: Civilian Life and Home Buying

My husband has been in the military for twelve years.  Two days ago, he served his last day.  During a deployment to Afghanistan several years ago, while avoiding enemy fire, he leapt off the side of a mountain and rolled and rolled and really messed up his back.  He was medically retired from his military career, with disability.  This news for our family was, quite literally, life-altering.  For our entire 11-year marriage we have been a military family, enduring everything that comes along with that tumultuous, wild journey.  And now it has all come to a swift and early end, and we find ourselves launching into civilian life. We moved off the base and into a little rental in a near-by city.  Our rental home is actually around the corner from our beautiful Latin Mass parish.  It seemed so idyllic, honestly, being able to walk to Mass.  In fact, when our parish had their Corpus Christi procession, the procession stopped in our front yard  where our priest offered Benediction o