Kimmy (Brandons Mom)'s Blog (4)

IF YOU DONT STAND BEHIND OUR TROOPS, FEEL FREE TO STAND IN FRONT OF THEM I have to find one of these to go by my Navy Mom sticker!!!!! Continue

Boy you would think I would be getting better at this but, I feel those same emotions creeping up again. I said goodbye to Brandon the end of June when he left for Boot Camp. Hello again when we attended PIR the end of August. Goodbye again when we headed home to Nebraska and he went off to A-School in Pensacola. Hello once more the first part of December as I picked him up at the airport in Denver. Its getting so close to the 26th when I will yet say those words and watch as my son heads for hi… Continue

I get to go pick up Brandon on friday and we have him home for 20 days. OMG...... What a Christmas this will be. I know that we better enjoy it, as I am sure it might be a few years before we are all home for Christmas again. I am so excited to have my son right here with us, but my thoughts and prayers are with those familys who can't be together. My heart goes out to the young children who won't have their daddys home for Christmas or the babies who have yet to meet their daddys. God Bless You… Continue

OMG a little over 24 hours and I am gonna be on the road. It was so nice to talk to Brandon yesterday. Three calls. First one was to get information he needed for A-school (he is now going to Pensacola) He's jazzed about that, no winter in Great Lakes. We got to talk about 20 minutes. He said he hoped he got back across base to make the call with his division. A few minutes later he called back for another address he needed. We got to talk another 10 minutes. Then he told me that by the time he… Continue