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Being a Nuke Mom is hard work!!
Just when I think I have all my problems licked, up comes another! Some of you may remember me as the Mom who hadn't heard from her sailor (bless his little heart) for over 6 months. I'm the mom who emailed the base mediators (several times) and then wrote the base commander - twice. Um, ok - so I now know better! But if I had to do it all over again, would I? Um, er, (blush) let's address that another day!
My sailor is up in Ballston Spa and graduation date is rapidly approaching. Our communication has still been sketchy, but when he rings up, he sounds like his old self. He's called when he was driving home in a snowstorm and just wanted someone to talk to while he navigated dark, icy roads (I'm not sure which of us had the whitest knuckles though!) He has a hands free system in his car and just wanted a voice to help him stay calm while trying to get home! I would never encourage anyone to drive and talk, but it wasn't the time to say "Get off the phone!!" I'm thinking of drinking Miss Clariol to see if it will cover the white hair quicker!! Yikes!! On the one hand, I didn't want to encourage the talking while driving. But on the other hand, I recognized the need for a calm voice when it was most needed. Double Whammy - but we got through it!!
He's told his sister how difficult Prototype is and how the hours are long and draining. He said he just wants to finish and move on.
I just wanted to take a minute to thank everyone who's prayed with me that our relationship with our son would be restored and that God's Will be done. Thank you ---
And he even called me on my birthday this year to wish me a Happy Birthday and that he missed me. I didn't think it would make up for last year's fiasco, but I was wrong! It was so nice to hear the boy I raised had turned into a decent human being!!
By the way - when I ask specific questions about the exams and so forth, he says "Man, that Navy Mom site has way to much information!!" But he answers the questions!
Have an awesome week everyone and again: THANK YOU!
becci
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Permalink Reply by Penny_Nuke_MM2_NimitzNuke on
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By the way, nvmomma, where in the pipeline is your son and what is his rating?
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Permalink Reply by swim4life on
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Thanks for sharing, ladies! We have 4 children. Our sailor is 3rd in line. (dtr-son-son-son) Our youngest has Down's, autism and Crohn's disease. I understand "constant vigilence" and feel like my watch is never over. Our sailor is ET. Always knew he was an extra-terrestrial! lol. This is going to be a long haul and I'm cautiously optomistic. Like you, we
are Christians and have prayed constantly for our Sailor's success and well-being. The best part about boot camp? Our son telling us he was volunteering in the Chapel on Sundays to help the Chaplain. I still cry about that. He volunteered from the very start of BC, which meant giving up the only liberty he had at first. If he'll keep going on Sundays, and volunteer while in A school, I know he'll be allright. He will get the spiritual shot-in-the-arm he needs to stay on track.
Time to take my little guy to school. I'll write "PART 2' later!
hugs,
swim4life
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Permalink Reply by NancyJo (NNPTC) on
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This might sound really weird, but I feel so much better hearing from all of you! My son will graduate Power School in June. He recently told me he is getting married in July while he's waiting to go on to prototype. It's been upsetting to the family because we hardly know her and we think this is a rash decision that he will regret later. Knowing he is disappointing his family, communication has suffered. He is breaking my heart. He has 3 older sisters who are just shaking their heads. What is he thinking? On top of all that, being deeply Catholic a non-church wedding cuts to the quick. No family on either side will be there. I'm trying to be accepting and put it in God's hands but I miss my boy.
Thanks for helping me know I'm not alone. My little boy is a man making a man's decisions. Just as I let go when he went to Boot Camp, I need to let go some more. Not an easy thing to do but easier knowing I have comrades to share the load.
N4M rocks!
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PART 2...I received a call from my son when he touched down in ORD before BC, and not again for 8 weeks, right before BS. I also got the call after BS. The GF received 1 or 2 other calls. The letters I received were very short. Sometimes only a paragraph! It's been a little easier now that we can txt or fb.
NancyJo, your heart must be breaking. I don't know what to say. I guess with my older boys I have always tried to treat their girlfriends as though they were part of the family, and that someday they could be my dtr-in-law. If he's anything like my son, he has a hard time taking advice. Any chance of spending time with her before the wedding? Your son must see something in her...Like you, I have to just turn things over to God when I can't be there. Just keep loving your son unconditionally and completely.
Our dtr. married someone that was not of our faith. We had a hard time being supportive, but we were. I told my husband, that I wanted a relationship with our daughter, whether this young man was in her life or not. We now have 3 grandkids, and we are all very close. I don't think we would be, if we had not been there and been supportive from the beginning.
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Thanks, swim4life, for your kind words. I do know acceptance is everything to keeping the relationship good. I have told him that I love him and want him to be happy. As I told my daughters, for all I know the marriage will work and she will be my dtr-in-law the rest of my life. She will have my grndchildren so the last thing I want to do is alienate. I do wish he would call more and all the time I was wishing he would call me he was keeping in close touch with the gf who is now the fiance.
This shows me how important it is that we moms pull together and support each other, pray for each other, and do whatever we can to help each other through the difficult times. Let's remember our sailors did something very honorable when they joined the navy and if they are going to spread their wings, the navy is a good place to do it. Let's get through the kind of not so great "now" and know the "future" has beautiful possibilities.
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Permalink Reply by Maddie on
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Penny, DH is either Dear Husband or Damn Husband, depending on my mood at the moment. LOL
My boy just got to GL so I don't have the mileage many of you have. I hope that his gf and I will one day have a relationship like maryquitecontrary has with her bf's mom. I'm sure that maturity comes with that so there is hope.
I just caught my DH sending him a text message not to forget Mother's Day so I feel like I did during bootcamp when everybody was buzzing about phone calls coming from Division 155.
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Permalink Reply by becciquilter on
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My daughter sends text messages to Nuke Boy to remind him!! Apparently she's the one whose texts he reads!! LOL!
I haven't heard how he did on his 100% tests. The expression "No news is good news" is a bunch of cow puckey! No news from Nuke Boy isn't good news!!
Being a Nuke Mom is sure hard work!!
By the way - when he was in BC and was complaining about how the instructors yelled like his mom, I told him that they came to me for training!! I'm thinking of starting a school called "Learn to Yell Sincerely and Like You Really Mean It". I don't think I'll even charge a course fee either!!
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Permalink Reply by BLW on
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Thanks to everyone in sharing their stories! It sure can be hard to be a mom - especially to a Navy nuke!
They are entering into a whole new world and have to spend so much time and energy in it that sometimes they forget their "old world" where they were with mom. We will always be there though, and they know it when they need someone to talk to.
And it has been wonderful to found other moms who are going through the same stuff! This has been like a support group for me more than once.
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I think I like you best because you sum up everything so well!!! And you are always so c-a-l-m!!! (Can you teach me that?)
You'll always have a room at our house when you come this way (and its warmer here!!)
becci
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I had thought I would be ok with not going to my son's graduation on June 17th. He down played the graduation. We are 2700 miles away, and if I decide to fly, I better get on it. (I could surprise him, but would need to find a place to stay.) My son told me yesterday that he is flying his brother out for the graduation. I am glad that he is going, someone will be there! Yet still my heart hurts to want to be there. I asked him to book a flight for me, and he paused. I guess he wanted it to be a guy thing. My son is an officer, and I was able to attend his commissioning. So, I guess I will survive missing this one. Do they have a graduation for Prototype?
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Hang in there, jordosmom. After 4 kids I figured out that our kids don't always quite understand a mother's heart. We want to be there! He'll get it eventually and actually I was always grateful that my kids are close and want those quality times together. I know that I am not in all their conversations. It still hurts when I am excluded but never doubt that your son loves you very much. There is nobody like Mom.
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