Karen Dwyer is Pregnant !

Surprise! How's that for news out of Turkey? Karen was feeling a little off about a week ago. Then she felt queasy. So she took a home EPT test and we had two positives. This past Tuesday she completed a test at the Med Group and that confirmed it. Our first appointment is tomorrow, on Monday. We have talked to a lot of you on the phone. If we haven't, it's simply because we keep running out of time.

In the middle of all of this, our property was finally delivered...on the wrong day. It was supposed to be scheduled for 10 Oct. Then we were told it would be late and they finally scheduled for 12 Nov. That was rescheduled to 14 Nov and that was rescheduled to 15 Nov. So of course on 14 Nov, while I was at work and Karen was getting ready for work, one day before they were supposed to be there - they showed up at our door. The only problem was we had a house full of furniture with all of our stuff in it. "No problem Abla...," they told Karen. They then proceeded to throw all the temporary furniture into the car port while Karen to scrambled to get everything we owned out of the drawers. Clothes were flung, cats were flying, Turks were gobbling - it was chaos. But now our stuff is here....and Karen is pregnant. Yeah. We are very happy.

Names? How does Mehmet Dwyer sound? Sort of a tribute to our Turkish hosts? No, how about Dasher Dwyer since we like Christmas so much? That would be Dancer Dwyer if it is a female. Thanks to Ryan Smyth for the Dasher inspiration. But I think my neighbor here at Incirlik, Wes Williams, has come up with the ultimate male name - Darth Victorious Dwyer! OK, all kidding aside we are leaning towards Noah James for a boy and Katie for a female.

More news to come.

Our Property Has Arrived....NOT ! ! !

So we received a call from TMO (Transportation Management Office) saying your stuff arrived in Adana and we will have it delivered to Incirlik on Monday the 12th. Well all right! We were truly excited. Especially since they are more than 30 days late from the 10 October promised delivery date. But then they called back an hour later, "The Turkish Air Force won't let any carriers on base on Monday or Tuesday. We will have to reschedule for Wednesday the 14th." OK, so we'll just deal with it. Then they called back an hour after that, "The Turkish carrier has no availability on the 14th so we have to cancel and reschedule for the 15th." So perhaps we'll get it then. Oh, they also want to verify that I own a motorcycle. I told them, "No, but if you deliver one I am going to keep it." So we should get our stuff on the 15th...or at least we should get someone's stuff.

Karen started a part time job at the base library and I will start teaching guitar at the end of November.