Dear Judi, I am so sorry to hear about your dad. Your Mum is fortunate that you can be with her. Take care and lets get in touch when you get back and settled. Karen
It would be great if Eric could get together with Chance! I think it would be so helpful to have someone further along in the process helping out when things are rough or unclear. Eric did say that he had an opportunity to meet up with someone he was with in DEPS - I wonder if it was Chance. Wouldn't that be something? Eric has a room to himself right now as they are re-carpeting some area, so he is really where the power school kids are supposed to be. I will call you or you can call me on my cell at 303-945-1843 and we can see if we can get them hooked up! Thanks so much - you are wonderful!
Judi,
Our stories are remarkably similar. Michael moved out March of his senior year, he did graduate thank fully and with the help of a wonderful teacher. The following March he moved to Wisconsin (I think). The trailer he had been living in with friends was really party central. He was only there for 2 months and moved back home. There were apologies then about behavior etc, but it did not take long for the anger, disrespect and disruptiveness in our home to begin again. My two younger sons where very torn with Michael's behaviour and we were all walking on eggshells. Finally, the Monday after Thanksgiving last year, he said some very hurtful things to me, I left for work crying and told my husband we can't keep going on like this. Michael and joined in September and we were trying so hard to keep him at home, we were not charging him rent, cell phone, insurance, food and letting him drive our cars as he did not own one and the crap we got had to come to an end. We did not see much of him or talk with him until last weekend when he put his feelings aside and spent quite a bit of time at home. Just playing xbox with his youngest brother, Keegan who is 14. He came over for a wonderful family breakfast Sunday morning, (a big tradition in our house) and that is a memory I will not forget. All of us, even my daughter who has lived in Hawaii for 3 1/5 years was home, sitting at the table sharing a good meal. Our goodbye's where better than I could have hoped for and now I am just nervous that he can make it through this first week and then the next..... I am still not sure who he called, still trying to figure that out. I am also not sure if he will send us the 4 passes to PIR. All I can do is hope and pray. Thank you for your words of encouragement. It really does help me so much to know that I am not alone and not all sons/daughters are picture perfect. I have always loved Michael and will never stop.
Thanks Judy! I just can hardly wait to go - and as luck would have it, I have my bosses in town this week, so I have to stay focused on work. Oh well, the day went by quickly today, so maybe that is a good thing. I will bring plenty of tissues - at least they will be tears of joy - I have had enough sadness for a lifetime these past two years (long story). Eric and I are really close, so this time that I have to spend with him is really precious to me. He does battlestations tomorrow night, and thenI will just be waiting for the call that says he is now a SAILOR!
Would love to hear about your trip to England - how wonderful for you! It is a place I would love to visit someday!
The Colorado Love Boxes are filled with food, stationary, personal items, notes, etc. for our Colorado Sailors who are deployed and also for the Sailors from Molly's Adopt-A-Sailor group each month. Everyone just does what they can and right now honestly help with postage is great. I will PM you my address.
Being with my kids is my ultimate joy in life. Like you I will have both of my boys for Mike's A School graduation and I am so looking forward to it.
I am excited about coming to the Western Slope the end of March. My husband is going to come too and we are going to make it a weekend. I sure hope to meet you there.
Hi Judi,
Gosh I hope your dad is doing better. I'm glad you were able to have the time with him though. Karen Price is in the process of putting together a gathering for the Western Colorado moms and I am going to try and come, I am excited to get to meet all of you.
I can't wait for Feb 13 and Mike's A school grad. I am so grateful that we are getting to go and I'm with you, anytime I can see my kiddo I am going to grab the opportunity with both hands. We were in Charleston a couple of years ago looking at the Citadel when Mike thought he might like to attend it so we saw a little bit then. A couple of the moms on the Nuke site put a list of activites together up in a discussion on A School Graduation. You might want to check it out and then I will for sure catch you up on how everything was when I get back.
Life doesn't get any better than having time with our kids and this trip our oldest is going too so I will have both of my boys for 4 days..Whoopee!!!
Thanks for catching me up on what's been happening with you...don't be a stranger now.
Thanks for writing those wonderful words of encouragement! Yesterday was my birthday, and I was hoping I would hear from Eric, but it didn't work out that way. He gave me a framed poster from the Grand Canyon right before he left as an early birthday present! It meant so much to me, because the boys and I took a vacation there in October as kind of a last time to spend together for awhile. It was so awesome and filled with lots of great memories!
I am so glad that you son loves the nuclear program - it is so reassurring, as I would hate for him to not like it and then be doing that for the next six years!
Eric was so excited that they put him in that program - he is very smart, but hasn't really put that to work for himself yet!
We got his PIR date yesterday - not the packet - but it was posted on the web site. January 30th!!!!!! We were thinking the middle of February, so this is earlier than we thought it would be. I am just praying that he is not a grad-n-go - Alex (my youngest son) and are planning to be there and we would love as much time as we can get with him. All my family is in Wisconsin, so they are close. I was hoping they could go to graduation, but because we can only get 4 tickets, that will not happen. But we will definately party with the afterwards - I haven't seen them for three years, so I can't wait!
Judi, How did your trip go to Great Lakes? I hope you were able to spend some good time with your son and enjoyed the experience of the graduation. Best, Judy
I am so sorry to hear about you Father, my thoughts and prayers are with you. I wish you all the best!
As for our weekend it was great! We had a very lazy weekend, we all sat around, talked, watched football and went out to dinner. It was nice just to spend time with Beau and family. Beau had to go back early on Sunday b/c he had duty, it sucked! We still do not know much about what is happen with Beau and his A School, witch is hard. I can not make any plans for Thanksgiving or anything for that matter until he get to Texas and meet with his Chief. But thats the Navy life, Right?
It was great meeting you and your family, I hope we can all stay in touch!
***Heather***
At 10:19pm on November 24, 2008, Gail "Me Ma" said…
Thanks Judi..do you know how to get my page not so well by the book?..I am wanting to get the entire page in color..
Glad to hear all is well! I did not know you had six kids, I hope to have four someday! I only have a sister and while I love her I always wanted a big family.
I can wait to meet you and Chance's wife. Tell her to hang in there, it will all be over soon.
Hi Judi, My work is so busy it's hard to get back to this, but just wanted to follow up with the information you missed in my first comment that never arrived. Trevor and his friend Dennis joined at 17 during high school. Dennis is a SEAL and Trevor is in intelligence (IS). Nuclear Engineering is a challenging and difficult program too. Best of luck to him. You must be so excited to see Chance now. I remember those days and would have loved to have had a site like this then. Trevor met his girlfriend in A school and they are based in San Diego (actually Coronado Island) on the Nimitz. They have been at sea twice now and have mixed emotions about it all two years down the road. At sea is when they get to do their job, which my son loves (satellite imagery analysis) but life at sea on a carrier isn't easy. When they're in port, safe and secure, they don't get to do their job and have to just do whatever on the ship, and that's boring. I think he's now feeling a bit like he's wasting time and talent, but then he's learned a lot and in many ways the Navy has been good for him. I tell him he needed to go to find Kayla, as they are truly soul mates and have a great relationship. He never had any girl friends in high school, so I was really surprised this developed so soon in the Navy yet. They have been very lucky to be posted in the same place, so when they are not deployed they spend most of their time together. They've made really good friends on the ship, and his friend Dennis is also in San Diego nearby. They both will be deploying, if all goes according to plan, sometime around June. Nimitz returns to the Persian Gulf area, so that will be his first time there. They've been to Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Guam, Hawaii...Pacific trips thus far. They love the shore leave part! Anyway, have a great trip to Great Lakes. Hope you get to spend a lot more time with Chance than we had together! The NEX is really good there for shopping! Dennis' Mom and I bought the kids watches and cashmere sweaters for ourselves for $29 each.
Hi Judi, Yes I got 2 more full letters on Saturday. I read them to everybody they were so funny, he sounds great. I feel so much better. I put a letter in the mailbox everyday. My husband and I alterante each night writing. The family is writing as well(it's okay if he can't answer all of them)I want him to flooded with letters to show how much we love him and that we are all thinking of him. How is your son doing? Yor almost there(PIR) My one daughter whos 14 wants to be a Vet has been saying it for years. We even bought her these games for her PC that you have to Diagnos & treat the animals. Sorry if my songs make you cry but they have a special meaning to me. Although that Phil Collins song is a little harder I lost my brother 2 years ago on 11/06/06(still have a hard time dealing with it) he was only 42. When Jeremy left on 11/05 it was double the emotions for me as my brothers annivesary is still a very hard day for me. We were very close growing up when he got married he moved to Washington state clear across the country so we didn't see each other much. Jeremy has his smile so he reminds me of him. Enjoy your time with your son they grow up so fast.
Hey,
Only three more days I can't wait! Sorry I did not get back to you sooner, I had a dance concert this weekend and was very busy. I dance with Modern American Dance Company in St. Louis. I have been dancing sence I was two years old, went to Oakland University where I got my BA in Dance and now I teach dance along with dancing with the company. Dance is my life and I love it! It has been the only thing that has keeped my mind off Beau being gone.
How was your weekend? Did you hear from your son? I heard that we should get a call on Wednesday but I will not get my hopes up, you know? well... hope to hear from you soon!
By the way, Do you know what time you and your family are planning on getting to the base on Friday?
Judi, nice to see another Mom who is close :) That would be awesome if we could all meet for lunch or something. Hmmmmm very interesting on the email...guess we were meant to meet :) I see from others comments your Sailor is at bootcamp. PIR is such an awesome experience, something you will never forget, I agree with Laura take plently of kleenex as it a moving experience. My Sailor Jacob has been in almost two years. He's an AE and is in California, his next duty station will be Hawaii, How lucky can one get???? He will not be heading out to there until sometime in the middle of the year. Would love to hear more about you and your Sailor. Look forward to hearing from you. Wishes for a nice day and week. ~Hugs~
PIR is something I WILL NEVER FORGET, it was amazing, it was quite emotional, but so proud. Take lots of kleenex
I love your town We like to go to the Apple Fest; actually years ago we lived in Delta and looked into buying a house in Cedaredge.
Thank you for writing me... Im glad to have someone close in Colorado :)
Judi, I just wrote a long comment but clicked back to your message and am not sure it was sent. DId you receive it? I was just going to check on your timing for BC graduation and may have lost the whole message as I am not used to this site. I suppose we have to click on "add comment" before we do anything else. If you did not receive the first comment, please advise and I will try to repeat the information. Have a good trip to Chicago. Trevor graduated two years ago the day before Thanksgiving, so I went with another mother whose son is my son's friend. My son was whisked away to VA so we didn't get to spend any time together except the evening of graduation. That was kind of hard, but he did get to come home very briefly for Christmas. That was the year of the huge snowstorms in Denver, and we just lucked out that his flight was between the storms, or that wouldn't have happened! It was an eventful and rather difficult time, for sure. Hope your's goes much more smoothly! Judy
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We missed you last Saturday and hope you are enjoying this special time with Chance. Thank him for his service. - Chris in GJ
It would be great if Eric could get together with Chance! I think it would be so helpful to have someone further along in the process helping out when things are rough or unclear. Eric did say that he had an opportunity to meet up with someone he was with in DEPS - I wonder if it was Chance. Wouldn't that be something? Eric has a room to himself right now as they are re-carpeting some area, so he is really where the power school kids are supposed to be. I will call you or you can call me on my cell at 303-945-1843 and we can see if we can get them hooked up! Thanks so much - you are wonderful!
I will never lose hope!
Sandy
Our stories are remarkably similar. Michael moved out March of his senior year, he did graduate thank fully and with the help of a wonderful teacher. The following March he moved to Wisconsin (I think). The trailer he had been living in with friends was really party central. He was only there for 2 months and moved back home. There were apologies then about behavior etc, but it did not take long for the anger, disrespect and disruptiveness in our home to begin again. My two younger sons where very torn with Michael's behaviour and we were all walking on eggshells. Finally, the Monday after Thanksgiving last year, he said some very hurtful things to me, I left for work crying and told my husband we can't keep going on like this. Michael and joined in September and we were trying so hard to keep him at home, we were not charging him rent, cell phone, insurance, food and letting him drive our cars as he did not own one and the crap we got had to come to an end. We did not see much of him or talk with him until last weekend when he put his feelings aside and spent quite a bit of time at home. Just playing xbox with his youngest brother, Keegan who is 14. He came over for a wonderful family breakfast Sunday morning, (a big tradition in our house) and that is a memory I will not forget. All of us, even my daughter who has lived in Hawaii for 3 1/5 years was home, sitting at the table sharing a good meal. Our goodbye's where better than I could have hoped for and now I am just nervous that he can make it through this first week and then the next..... I am still not sure who he called, still trying to figure that out. I am also not sure if he will send us the 4 passes to PIR. All I can do is hope and pray. Thank you for your words of encouragement. It really does help me so much to know that I am not alone and not all sons/daughters are picture perfect. I have always loved Michael and will never stop.
Would love to hear about your trip to England - how wonderful for you! It is a place I would love to visit someday!
Take care and keep in touch!
Being with my kids is my ultimate joy in life. Like you I will have both of my boys for Mike's A School graduation and I am so looking forward to it.
I am excited about coming to the Western Slope the end of March. My husband is going to come too and we are going to make it a weekend. I sure hope to meet you there.
Gosh I hope your dad is doing better. I'm glad you were able to have the time with him though. Karen Price is in the process of putting together a gathering for the Western Colorado moms and I am going to try and come, I am excited to get to meet all of you.
I can't wait for Feb 13 and Mike's A school grad. I am so grateful that we are getting to go and I'm with you, anytime I can see my kiddo I am going to grab the opportunity with both hands. We were in Charleston a couple of years ago looking at the Citadel when Mike thought he might like to attend it so we saw a little bit then. A couple of the moms on the Nuke site put a list of activites together up in a discussion on A School Graduation. You might want to check it out and then I will for sure catch you up on how everything was when I get back.
Life doesn't get any better than having time with our kids and this trip our oldest is going too so I will have both of my boys for 4 days..Whoopee!!!
Thanks for catching me up on what's been happening with you...don't be a stranger now.
Thanks for writing those wonderful words of encouragement! Yesterday was my birthday, and I was hoping I would hear from Eric, but it didn't work out that way. He gave me a framed poster from the Grand Canyon right before he left as an early birthday present! It meant so much to me, because the boys and I took a vacation there in October as kind of a last time to spend together for awhile. It was so awesome and filled with lots of great memories!
I am so glad that you son loves the nuclear program - it is so reassurring, as I would hate for him to not like it and then be doing that for the next six years!
Eric was so excited that they put him in that program - he is very smart, but hasn't really put that to work for himself yet!
We got his PIR date yesterday - not the packet - but it was posted on the web site. January 30th!!!!!! We were thinking the middle of February, so this is earlier than we thought it would be. I am just praying that he is not a grad-n-go - Alex (my youngest son) and are planning to be there and we would love as much time as we can get with him. All my family is in Wisconsin, so they are close. I was hoping they could go to graduation, but because we can only get 4 tickets, that will not happen. But we will definately party with the afterwards - I haven't seen them for three years, so I can't wait!
Take care and let's keep in touch!
I am so sorry to hear about you Father, my thoughts and prayers are with you. I wish you all the best!
As for our weekend it was great! We had a very lazy weekend, we all sat around, talked, watched football and went out to dinner. It was nice just to spend time with Beau and family. Beau had to go back early on Sunday b/c he had duty, it sucked! We still do not know much about what is happen with Beau and his A School, witch is hard. I can not make any plans for Thanksgiving or anything for that matter until he get to Texas and meet with his Chief. But thats the Navy life, Right?
It was great meeting you and your family, I hope we can all stay in touch!
***Heather***
Glad to hear all is well! I did not know you had six kids, I hope to have four someday! I only have a sister and while I love her I always wanted a big family.
I can wait to meet you and Chance's wife. Tell her to hang in there, it will all be over soon.
Only three more days I can't wait! Sorry I did not get back to you sooner, I had a dance concert this weekend and was very busy. I dance with Modern American Dance Company in St. Louis. I have been dancing sence I was two years old, went to Oakland University where I got my BA in Dance and now I teach dance along with dancing with the company. Dance is my life and I love it! It has been the only thing that has keeped my mind off Beau being gone.
How was your weekend? Did you hear from your son? I heard that we should get a call on Wednesday but I will not get my hopes up, you know? well... hope to hear from you soon!
By the way, Do you know what time you and your family are planning on getting to the base on Friday?
I love your town We like to go to the Apple Fest; actually years ago we lived in Delta and looked into buying a house in Cedaredge.
Thank you for writing me... Im glad to have someone close in Colorado :)
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