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Comment by navymom3 on February 1, 2012 at 10:16am

No problem pavcmcf. You can also join one of where your sailor will be going to school at. My middle sailor is now in Japan as has been there for 27days now. Yes I am counting. Yes I have 2 sons in the navy. They didn't have this group when my oldest went to bootcamp. 

Comment by pavcmcf on February 1, 2012 at 12:13am

Thank you sooo much navymom3 I think I already lost my mind because I looked at the dates on all these posts and realized they were all from 2011 but i still posted...lol.. just hoping my eye were playing trick on me. I guess you can tell this is all very new to me.

Comment by navymom3 on January 31, 2012 at 11:50pm

pavcmcf this groups sailors graduated 3-18-2011. You probably need the group for 2012. They normally don't get to call for quite a while. On the form letter it should have her address. I would continue to send her letters as she will write you back. They normally only get to write on sundays or at least send them on sundays. Hang in there we know it is hard no hearing but she will be okay. You might want to add a few self stamped envelopes in your letter so she can send you mail back.

Comment by pavcmcf on January 31, 2012 at 11:26pm

My Daughter is is on (ship  02 Div 918) I haven't heard anything yet other than the first formal letter, I am about to loose to can someone please update me. Is everyone ok???

Comment by navygrams on May 5, 2011 at 4:49pm

Angie - This is just wonderful and heartwarming.  I am the mother of 2 grown children now.  I was referring to myself in a conversation the other day as "middle-aged" and then realized my daughter just turned 40 and my son is 41!  Imagine my shock when I realized my children are the middle-aged ones. There was a commercial back in the 70's that asked "It's 10 pm, do you know where your kids are?" - My husband still asks me that at night and we both smile and sigh...ummm no...but we pray and trust that they are just fine.   The love and concern never ends, it only becomes deeper.

Although I am the grandmother of my Sailor...I do have a mothers heart for him for many reasons and I have had the awesome privilege of walking alongside you Moms on this Military journey that these young men have embarked on and have experienced the same excitement, joy, concerns and worries.  (I actually did tell him I was going to keep him locked up until he was 40 when he first told me) :)) 

Thanks for sharing this with us and I wish all you Navy Moms a wonderful Mothers Day...you have done such a fine job and raised such wonderful young men....you all deserve to be proud!  God Bless you all.

 

Comment by Angie (Dan's Mom) on May 5, 2011 at 2:20pm

When my son was in kindergarten, the school sent this poem home in their May monthly newsletter.   Ive kept it pinned to my bulletin board at work ever since.   My son is now 21 and in the US NAVY.  I was scanning it to send it to my niece who is celebrating her first Mother’s Day and thought I needed to make a little revision to it.   You’ll see my revision at the end.  Happy Mother’s Day everyone

 

For All Mothers

This is for all the mothers who froze their buns off on metal bleachers at soccer games instead of watching from cars, so that when their kids asked, "Did you see my goal?" They could say, "Of course, I wouldn't have missed it for the world," and mean it.

This is for all the mothers who have sat up all night with sick children in their arms, wiping up barf laced with Oscar Meyer wieners and cherry Kool-Aid saying, "It's OK honey, Mommy's here."

This is for all the mothers who have sat in rocking chairs for hours on end soothing crying babies who can't be comforted.

This is for all the mothers of Kosovo who fled in the night and can't find their children.

This is for the mothers who gave birth to babies they'll never see and for the mothers who took those babies and gave them homes.

For all the mothers who run carpools and make cookies and sew Halloween costumes  and for all the mothers who don't.

What makes a good mother anyway?  Is it patience? Compassion? Broad hips?

The ability to nurse a baby, cook dinner, and sew a button on a shirt, all at the same time?

Or is it heart?

I think so.

 Is it the ache you feel when you watch your son or daughter disappear down the street, walking to school alone for the very first time?

The jolt that takes you from sleeping to dread, from bed to crib at 2 a.m. to put your hand on the back of a sleeping baby?

The panic, years later, that comes again at 2 A.M. when you just want to hear their key in the door and know they are safe again in your home?

Or the need to flee from wherever you are and hug your child when you hear news of a fire, a car accident, a child dying?

I think so.

The emotions of motherhood are universal and so our thoughts are for young mothers stumbling through diaper changes and sleep deprivation...
And mature mothers learning to let go.


So this is for all the mothers  who sat down with their children and explained all about making babies. And for all the mothers who wanted to but just couldn't.

This is for reading "Goodnight, Moon" twice a night for a year.  And then reading it again, "Just one more time".

This is for all the mothers who mess up. Who yell at their kids in grocery store and swat them in despair and stomp their feet like a tired two year old  who wants ice cream before dinner.

This is for all the mothers who taught their children to tie their shoelaces before they started to school and for all the mothers who opted for Velcro instead.

For all the mothers who bite their lips (sometimes until they bleed) when their 14 year olds dyed their hair green.

This is for all the mothers who lock themselves in the bathroom when babies keep crying and won't stop.

This is for all mothers who show at work with spit-up in their hair and milkstains on their blouses and diapers in their purse.

This is for mothers who teach their sons to cook and their daughters to sink a jump shot.

This is for all mothers whose heads turn automatically when a little voice calls "Mom?" in a crowd, even though they know their own offspring are at home or are grown.

This is for mothers who put pinwheels and teddy bears on their children's graves.

This is for all the mothers whose children have gone astray and who can't find words to reach them.

This is for all the mothers who sent their child to school with a stomach ache, assuring that they would be just FINE once they got there, only to get a call from the school nurse an hour later asking them to please pick them up right away.

For working moms and stay-at-home moms.  Single mothers and married mothers.

Mothers with money and mothers without.

This is for all the mothers who taught their children to be peaceful, and now pray they come home safely from a war.

Tell them every day that we love them. And pray.

This is for you, so hang in there. The world would be a terrible place without the love of mothers everywhere.  You make it a more civil, caring and safe place for the precious children in our world.


"Home is what catches you when you fall - and we all fall."

Author Unknown

As I read this, I knew I needed to add this paragraph below for us!

 

This is for all the mothers who first heard the words “Mom I want to join the military” and didn’t lock their child in their bedroom for the next 40 years.   Who lite those candles when their child was going through their final test of bootcamp.  For those Moms who kept their phone glued to their side, even when in the bathroom so that they won’t miss THAT call.   For all those Moms who gave up a weekend with friends to create that care package not only for her child but for all his buddies who aren’t getting any care packages.  For all those Moms who celebrated too many birthdays, Mother’s Days, Easter, 4^th of July, Christmas without their children, praying that their sons and daughter were safe, and warm and hopefully had a nice meal.  This is for all the NAVY, ARMY, AIR FORCE, MARINE and COAST GUARD Moms. 

Comment by navygrams on April 11, 2011 at 12:51pm

Hi Rosalinda,  I'm thinking they said 6-8 weeks.  Can't wait ...I didn't get any good videos :(  Hoping to see my Sailor in it - even if only for a second.  Bill was Ship 7/108 also.

Have a great day!

Comment by Rosalinda(MAA MAMA) on April 7, 2011 at 9:04am

Hey everyone i have a question does anyone recall if the DVD from the Graduation will be recieved by the 6th week or the 9th week...............Thank you

Comment by Nichelle on March 31, 2011 at 10:22am

I stayed at crosslands extended stay, very nice friendly n close to walmart and other shopping n only 8min from graduation....really enjoyed the visit except for the wind..lol

Comment by Angie (Dan's Mom) on March 31, 2011 at 9:55am

Charlotte  I too loved being around other family members with a loved one in the military.   I keep trying to find local n4m's here for a local meet and greet and not having much luck.  That's why I recently joined the Blue Star Mother's of America. while its open to all branchs and not just NAVY there is nothing like being able to share your feelings - good and bad - with others in your same shoes face to face

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