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Comment by Parrothdgal on April 20, 2011 at 5:02pm

Everyone...  I got 2 letters in the mail today.  One good and one not so good at all!  My daughter said 5 girls have left all ready due to medical or just can't take the pressure@  She said it "sucks"  They get told they are shit and will never make it.  She said if you ask a question you get told to shut up and get out of their faces. She said the guys such and are dumb too!  LOL  I'm sure if was none of your boys!!!!   2 minutes to shower and brush teeth...10 @ a time.  On the up side the RDC's tell her not to get broken because they need her in laundry!  LOL I never knew she could do laundry! One letter was a high the other a total low.  I pray she is feeling better today.  She said she will get a 1 hour phone call next week.  Be ready ladies!!!

Comment by diannep on April 20, 2011 at 11:19am

cruisinkitkat:  My experience with my son was like yours. He had moved back home during his 10 mos in Dep (lived 90 miles north prior to that).  Couldn't find even a part time job down here.  Economy was in the toilet by then...and he tried everything.  He had been a kid who was working as he went to college, so I wasn't used to him being home so much.  He doesn't do well with inactivity...so I was ready for him to leave and he was ready to leave!  But I suffered the same feelings you did once he was gone...the quietness was overwhelming.  I cried all the way home after saying goodbye to him.  The ole...can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em! 

I loved getting his letters when he was there (this....my son who didn't write letters before bootcamp!).  So I hope that you get those wonderful funny stories in the letters he sends you.  They do help alot...and the phone calls do too! Mine has been gone now for 1.5 yrs since he left for bc...only home twice during that time....but with contact back, life is better.  I don't contact him much...let him contact me when he wants.  Letting him grow up and find his way!  But it's nice to know I can reach him if needed.  That time is coming for you all in just a couple of months once they are at A School and you have contact again. 

Comment by Tiffsmom on April 20, 2011 at 10:40am

You're so right about being there for all the milestones in our children's lives, but the truth is......if we remained at their side at this point, this transformation would not be taking place. I guess this is that ever so difficult point of letting go. I read recently that raising children is easy, it's the letting go that is so hard. I guess it just means we did a really good job as parents : )

Comment by mmiles 11/186 on April 20, 2011 at 10:16am

I feel teh exact same way!  My son will come back a man and I feel like I am missing this transformation. I saw him walk, I saw him ride bike for the first time, start kindergarten....you know what I mean?!?!  But this is one step I'm not there to see. Probably one of the most important life changing moments in his life and I feel like I have been there for the others in his life except this one. Im so proud of him, just feels almost like I am grieving for the boy that left but will be happy to meet the new man that comes home!!  Yes, very bittersweet!!  Thank you to you all for expressing how you feel, makes me feelless alone!

Comment by cruisinkitkat(Ship 04/Div 812) on April 20, 2011 at 10:14am

I understand as well. My son was driving me up a wall before he left, now I find myself missing his little jokes and things he would say.

I have been writing letters since he left and finally got to mail them all yesterday. I look forward to his letters because I know they will be full of all his little comments he used to make.  I am hoping that he tells me some about boot camp but he will probley save that for his dad.  He never wants to worry me so he tells me funny stories.  Oh how I miss those!

Comment by LoriMN - Ship 11 Div 185 on April 20, 2011 at 10:06am

I do the same thing to my sons room, I got in there and say good morning and I go in at night and say good night.  I know I am weird!   But I miss him so much he is my one and only.  

Comment by Tiffsmom on April 20, 2011 at 9:50am

Yes, I guess these are the same kids that drove us crazy! This is my son, not my daughter, so not missing shopping with him! I do have a daughter too, so I understand the mother/daughter shopping bond! But overall, it's crazy how much I miss this boy. I find myself just going in his room and standing there sometimes, kind of talking to him! I just can't wait to hear from him and hear his voice again, and know that he is doing ok. You're right too, about these "children" not returning the way they left, and yes, oh so bitter sweet : ( This military mom thing is really difficult, and it's only been two weeks!!!

Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on April 20, 2011 at 9:04am

Parrothdgal- I know exactly what you mean. I still miss my daughter so much. We always shopped together. A couple weeks ago she went to the mall alone :-( she had no one to shop with her. So she called me and talked to me the entire time lol and sent me text message pics of different stuff she wanted to buy lol. I talked her out of some of it just like I would have if I had been there with her :-)

Comment by Parrothdgal on April 20, 2011 at 7:11am

Are these the same kids that drove us crazy?  A week before she left I was thinking...WOW it's gonna be nice and quiet!  :(  Wahhhhhhhhhh it's too quiet!!!  I miss my shopping buddy!  I also know just from talking to her for a very short time she will not come home the same little girl  she left as. Bitter sweet it is!

Comment by pattyb on April 20, 2011 at 5:39am

I keep looking each day for a letter and ugh nine yet.  I will feel so much better once I get a call from my son.  I sure do miss him  and think of him  all the time

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