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Comment by lori on May 2, 2012 at 11:35am

Joanne- so sorry you are sick. Did this bronchitis come from allergies originally? Lucky you getting to go to Australia! You are quite the world traveler aren't you? Glad Jason got time to spend with Kevin. Feel better my friend!

Paul did love Australia. Didn't do a whole lot- they were in Perth and he stayed in the town. Not sure how many days they were in port for. Coming down to the home stretch for them now. The ship has been out since Nov- he joined it in Jan. 

Sheila- it's tough being the "new guy"- that will change in time. What will he have to do to get Dolphin quals? It is good to hear them challenging themselves- they are growing up! So proud of all our young men.

Comment by Sheilamf #2 PIR10/10/14 Div 318 on May 2, 2012 at 9:11am

Betsy, I love the picture.  Very funny.  Good luck with the move this weekend.

Joanne, Joe recently finished A School & was assigned to his Sub (USS New Mexico) whose home port is Groton, CT.  He is currently on his first underway on his Sub, USS New Mexico. 

They went from Groton to Mayport (FL). Liberty in Mayport for the weekend. Since he's the "new guy", he didn't get much Liberty & essentially, he's just washing dishes, etc on this trip.  They are "out" for a month or so.

It was a perfect set up for him.  Gave him a week to figure things out & get situated.  When I talked to him this weekend, he said, he's really got to get cracking on his Dolphin qualifications.  I love to hear him putting the pressure on himself instead of me or someone else having to do so.

Comment by lori on May 1, 2012 at 9:20am

Betsy you should tell him you got a magnifying glass out and you found him. Then have him guessing where he is!!! Haha! Serve him right to keep HIM guessing!

Comment by Betsy, mom of Stennis sailor on May 1, 2012 at 9:09am

Lori, you are so right!  He said he knew he was towards the right in the picture, but he couldn't find himself either.  lol   

Comment by lori on May 1, 2012 at 8:38am

Betsy- hahahahaha! I'll bet he doesn't even know where he is in this photo! Funny guy!

Comment by Betsy, mom of Stennis sailor on April 30, 2012 at 11:54pm

Could you pick out your sailor in this "Where's Waldo" picture?  lol  My Adam says he is in this picture from an Admiral's call on his ship today.  He told me that it shouldn't be hard to find him, since he is wearing his digital blues, lol.  He's a real funny guy, :)    

Comment by Betsy, mom of Stennis sailor on April 28, 2012 at 5:53pm

Hi Lori, Wow, Australia, that is awesome!  I bet Paul is having a blast!  I can imagine the photo opps he will have there.    

Thanks for the info on the deployment time, hopefully that will be the case with Adam too.  

The closing went great, thanks for asking.  We now have keys to our own house again.  Woohoo! We are shampooing all of the rugs (it's funny how dingy and dirty they looked without furniture in the rooms, lol).  We also want to paint some rooms before we move in all the way.  Our big delivery will be May 4, but we are kinda gradually moving in, since we have our lease until the end of June.  We have been moving some things from our apartment up there all weekend, but are still sleeping at the apartment right now.  We really didn't have much stuff in the apartment, since most of our stuff was in storage, so moving out of the apartment won't be so bad.  I totally scrubbed and wiped out all the appliances yesterday and cleaned all 3 bathrooms from top to bottom.  My husband shampooed some of the carpets 3 times.   It was so nice today, we took my parents to see the house and there were 2 deer in our yard.  It's almost like they were welcoming us to the neighborhood.  :)   I think they were actually there to eat some of the garden, but it was nice to think that they were welcoming us.  lol     

Comment by lori on April 28, 2012 at 8:34am

Morning ladies- don't know if this is happening to others but I haven't been getting notices until all of a sudden tons came through at once. I'm on my son's ships site [Vinson] and they were all saying it too. Strange. Must have been a glitch in the site. 

Betsy- hope all went well yesterday with the closing. When do you move in? I wouldn't worry to much about what they SAID about how long the deployment MIGHT be. Paul was told the same thing when he went out- and then they changed it back to the original 7 months. You know the military-they may know but they don't have to tell you!

Paul called a couple of days ago from Australia. Said he loves it and was looking forward to getting out after his day of duty [ he had gone out briefly when they first got there]. Said it's expensive but he wouldn't mind staying a whole lot longer there!

Hope everyone has a great weekend. Where has our warm spring gone????

Comment by Betsy, mom of Stennis sailor on April 24, 2012 at 9:24am

Oops, forgot to update on myself, so here goes:  My Adam just got back from his first 10 day cruise.  They cruised from WA to San Diego and sat in ocean while the planes practiced.  He said he was in INDOC pretty much the whole time, didn't really get to do much else.  He has now said that the word on the deployment is that it may be up to 10 months long!  :(  No word on exactly when this will happen.  I did see on the Stennis N4M's page some mention of the sailors being happy to be back in port because of "things coming up in the fall"  

We are closing on our house on Friday, so things will be crazy for us for awhile. Hopefully after all settles, I will be able to do a lunch again soon.    

Comment by Betsy, mom of Stennis sailor on April 24, 2012 at 9:12am

cori, May will be here before you know it.  :)    

JoAnne, that is awesome about the letter from his CO.  He must have really impressed him.  My son is also at Kitsap, he is on the Stennis.  

Lori, congratulations on your new "shellback"  Glad to hear that they scaled it back.  

Donna, that is awful about the patches.  :(  I hope that Steven got through the week without any incident.  That's exciting about going to the NY fleet week.  I've heard that is so much fun.  

Linda, our house isn't too far from Eldersburg at all.  We are in the Harvest Farms subdivision, which is off Ridge Road in Marriottsville.  

Sheilmf, I'm sure he will do great.  Just think of the stories you will hear when he gets back.  

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