BOLC and PCS preparation

Matt finished school at the end of May with graduation held on June 6th. His BOLC started June 12th. So, here's a quick timeline of how the few weeks before he left went for us. A quick preface though; due to being a RIDE student, Matt spent his last semester practicing as a dentist in Chelan, WA at a community health clinic. So, we had moved there for 5 months. Our lease was up on May 29th, the same day he was to finish school. That made it a quick move. I will do a separate post on that next. So, the timeline:

• May 28th- Last day for him at the Community Health Clinic. He loved his experience there and got to work on lots of kids. 
• May 28th- We moved out of our town home in Chelan completely and took all our stuff to my parent's house, where we'd been storing much more in their barn all throughout dental school. We were now starting to manage a life of no routine, no stability, no familiarity (their toys and such were all packed up) and chaos. For 2 toddlers (ages almost 4, and barely 2), that is very difficult. 
• June 1st- Got storage unit and started moving sorting through our stuff and move everything to the unit. 
• June 2nd- Head back to Seattle to finish up everything before graduation. He had one class, a few banquets and dinners and things of that nature. 
• June 6th 9:00 AM- Matt was commissioned as a Captain in the U.S. Army by two star Major General Tempel. He is the head of the Army Dental Corp and it was an honor to have him do the commissioning. We were lucky that he was recently stationed at JBLM. Once he heard about these two officers needing to be commissioned, he insisted on doing it. 
• June 6th 2:00 PM- Graduation for the 2015 University of Washington School of Dentistry. 
• June 6th- After graduation, we drove back to my parents house to try to get things settled before Matt had to leave for BOLC. 
• June 7th- June 8th- Finish cleaning up our stuff and putting it in storage. 
• June 9th-11th- Visit Matt's family before he leaves for BOLC because he didn't know if he'd see them before he reports to South Korea
• June 11th- Fly to San Antonio
• June 12th- July 25th- BOLC training in San Antonio at Fort Sam Houston. First three weeks are classes, the last 3 weeks are held in the field Monday-Friday, with Officers back in their hotels for the weekend*. 
• June 19th- The kids and I moved to my in-laws due to the fact that my parents also had some un-planned changes in their lives and they sold their house so they could move to Panama. 
• July 11th- Move to my brother's house in Spokane for the remaining weeks before Matt gets home from BOLC. We wanted to visit them for awhile since we don't know when we will see them again. 
• July 25th- Home from BOLC. The military will pay for flights strait from BOLC to their new posts, but not flights in between. As a result, Matt paid for his own flight back to Spokane before flying out to Korea. 

There is a lot that has happened, and will happen (today is only July 8th) during all this time, but I will detail that in a future post. It's mostly aimed at military spouses.

*We were told by the head of the Army Dental Corp that BOLC will be changing really soon. It will consist of two different BOLC trainings. The first will be with all officers enlisted, and the second will be just with Medical personnel. Right now, Matt's is just with medical personnel for the whole 6 weeks.