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Bootcamp Moms with PIR date June 4, 2010...to chat, vent, discuss, cry, cheer and root each other on. HOO YAH n4ms
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Latest Activity: Dec 20, 2010
Discussion Forum
Going solo to PIR - need ride/companion!
Started by SOBE,PIR 6/4/10 IT Mom, Italy. Last reply by Claudia(Andy's WIfe) Jun 2, 2010. 5 Replies 0 Likes
Let's help those who are coming to PIR by themselves find each other so that no one is traveling alone from the airport to Great Lakes.
PIR, Liberty, Parking, etc..
Started by DeannaD-Bigpumpkin. Last reply by TheRightThing May 14, 2010. 1 Reply 0 Likes
This may be long but lots of great info.I found this on another discussion, thought we can post our questions and answers here to help each other out. Here is a list of things I have seen asked about…Continue
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Comment by Rebecca4 on June 21, 2010 at 12:14pm
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Yes. My son is in A School in Great Lakes. He is in the engineering program (which he is not happy about)
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Comment by jgoody/new Nuke mom on June 20, 2010 at 6:03pm
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So, I just came in from mowing & trimming the lawn for the last 3 hours. I trimmed all of the sidewalks on a corner lot including the street side. The weather today just happened to be perfect for it.
And as I got near the end, I'm thinking who is this crazy lazy who not only allowed but encouraged my son to leave me to join the Navy?!
From a Proud Mom who will happily cut her own grass from now on :- )
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OMG!! bird poop is the winner. LMAO. now anyway; I'm with you, at the time it wasn't so funny. I love that expression on his face. Good for you to capture it on the camera.
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Comment by Pam on June 20, 2010 at 5:24pm
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Here's an even better picture.
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Jgoody - that made me remember our nightmare stain! We were at Navy Pier and my husband wanted to check out what was on the second level. Well, there are a lot of seagulls on Lake Michigan and YES of all nine of us that were there, my son with his beautiful uniform on got hit with the biggest string of seagull poop I have ever seen. It hit his arm, his sleeve, his side AND his pants. In fact here's the picture. Tide stick was put to use, but it still had a streak of white all down his side. I totally blamed my husband!!! Ha, ha - it is funny nowl
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kathyjeanba, you were very smart in that respect. We had 10 people & 3 cars so my son was switching back & forth everytime we went somewhere & it wasn't until that sandwich trip that he was in my daughters car with the grandson & the treats. He always sits in the front because of his height, & I'm pretty sure that I am the guilty party for dropping the cookie. Just never even noticed it on the seat. When we took him back to the base, I took a towel from the hotel room; just to be extra safe.
And I took the Cheezits - without thinking - because they had been his most favorite snack for months before he left. I even got a fresh box instead of bringing the one that he had left in his room :-)
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Comment by kathyjeanba (ship 6/Div 929) on June 20, 2010 at 3:05pm
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JGoody, you know that was the nightmare fear of all of us Spring/Summer PIR sailor moms! I sat in the backseat with our grandson and put our sailor up front with his father for that reason. And, I'm sure that there's some cosmic physics truth that explains Cheezits and Cheeto dust adhering it'self to anything white in a twenty foot radius!
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Sobe, you know I'm here to help. I also put it on Boot Camp Moms to hopefully give someone a heads up. All that time & I thought I was prepared for everything!
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Comment by SOBE,PIR 6/4/10 IT Mom, Italy on June 20, 2010 at 12:56pm
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Great story Jaime (JGoody) - it's funny now, but I bet it wasn't then!!! Oh... and thanks for the great info you posted on the new group "Grad & Go Info" - I know your experience will really help others. Miss yaking with you!
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I will admit to being a slug for the last couple of weeks. All the build up & the after PIR letdown. But I do have a rather humorous story.
Due to the advise of my saving grace N4M family, I brought along a Tide stick & a bleach pen in case of a spill on his whites & some comfortable clothes for my sailor in case we spent some time in the hotel.
what no one warned me about was the snacks in the car for the grandson.
so, Izaac was extremely careful with his uniform, was very fussy about what he ate; he wouldn't even touch the Cheezits that I brought because of the way the orange crumbs stick to the fingers. His sister actually fed some to him though.
So, about an hour & a half before we had to head back to base, we were headed into Jimmy Johns for a sandwich. When he got out of the car, he noticed a dark spot on his trousers. Then we saw a huge dark spot on the inside leg of his white pants. It was chocolate frosting from the snack cookies that we had in the car for the little guy. Must have dropped one on the seat & he sat on it. Chocolate smeared on those beautiful pristine white pants! And on the inside of the leg. It didn't look good at all. And he was nearly panicked by it.
This kid that used to wipe his face on his sleeve was mortified!
Fortunately, we could take our order as take out, so we went to the hotel to eat. Since he had some extra clothes he changed out of his whites & I went to work on the pants. The Tide stick wasn't much good in this situation, but the shampoo in the hotel worked great. I little bit of gentle scrubbing & it came out. Then the hair dryer was put to use to dry them & he went back all neat & clean. A few tense moments there, but it turned out all right.
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