He Said. She's Home!

Our children and I are all so glad to have wife/mama back home in Anderson. I know that we are wimps when it comes to holding the family together without her, but we are not a complete family when she is gone. She is exhausted after 12 hours on the train from Washington to Clemson. She came back with great news! She has passed the oral exam in the process of becoming a foreign service officer for the US State Department. This is quite an achievement since less than 5% of all that apply make it this far.
Next for us is passing the medical clearance (all five of us) and she will have to pass the top secret security clearance. She was told that this next step should take about 6 months and then we can be placed on the register. Once on the register, she is eligible to be invited to the A-100 class and hired by the State Department. If everything goes well, we hope to be going to our first post in about a year from now.