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Opening THE BOX
I just received "the box", our address in my son's handwriting. I am having a hard time actually opening it. Has anyone else reacted this way?
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Permalink Reply by harpist mom on
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I did not open my son's box for six weeks. I was emotional about him leaving and just put it in his room.
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Permalink Reply by DrSally on
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Many thanks for your reply. I just knew I couldn't be the only reluctant mom!
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I think that's where my reluctance is coming from. When my husband and I took Joseph to the recruiter's station for the trip to the airport, he was my baby. Now he's crossed some threshold into adulthood. It passed so quickly! Despite protests from him, though, he'll always be my baby...
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Permalink Reply by jaysmom on
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DrSally
Oh Honey, absolutely. That was exactly me. The box came and had my son's handwriting on it and to be honest, I lost it. In fact, I couldn't bring myself to open it. I had to have my husband do it. He had to open it and put stuff away while I was at work. He said, are you sure you don't want to do it? I said, positive, I can't take it right now. So yes, so many of us feel exactly the same.
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Thanks for your reply. Now I don't feel so silly being hands-off THE BOX.
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Just to make you laugh, I found this joke and even sent it to my son to make him laugh too...
It is about "The Box"
So this older couple receive their son's box back from boot camp and the mother just picks up the box unopened and starts to put in the closet. Her husband says, "Oh, you are just being silly and sentimental, get over it." The wife says, "I am not being sentimental and silly, I am being "realistic". Our sons shoes, socks, and underwear have been in an enclosed box for a week. There is no way that I am going to open that thing.
LOL.
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Permalink Reply by JackRussellMom on
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I cried like a baby when I opened up that box, over his phone and charger a pen some change and a chapstick. It seems foolish now but we are at an emotional state when we are waiting for that box.
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Permalink Reply by Bobbie on
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The box seemed like a physical reminder he was gone so when I got it I took a picture of the box to put in the Navy timeline scrapbook for him. I then opened it, washed and put away his things and almost violently destroyed the box. LOL I no longer had that sitting there making me sad. I have seen some good ideas where people have saved that box and put all letters and PIR mementos in it to store. Another mom kept the box and mailed the first care package to her son in A school in it.
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Permalink Reply by Jes'awesome on
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I'm with the joke. That box was opened quickly, laundry was taken care of immediately.
Sidenote: I AM having a hard time throwing the box away though. -
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Permalink Reply by reneec on
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My son text me a photo of the box in work. I cried like a baby. As if I missed her at the door. I'm glad I'm not alone. I had him search for a note or address. Nothing!
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Permalink Reply by MamaCeCe on
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I'm glad my older son opened it cause I know wouldn't have been able to. I stared at it and cried like a baby. It's been seating on his bed since I got it. I went through it and read all his paperwork from MEPS and I lost it all over again. The "box" has to be the worst brown box to show up at your door step..
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