NUKE moms

Today is B’s birthday. Hard to believe my son is 36!

B’sNukeMom - Happy Birthday to your son!!! 

CanukaVet - wow, exciting!! Enjoy your adventures. 

Chipmunk - yes, this all makes sense. Thank you for the info. Fortunately we added my son as an authorized user on one of our credit cards years ago so that it gave him credit “history” even though he didn’t use the card. My parents did that for me and it made all the difference since sometime no credit is as bad as bad credit. He also has the NFCU card which was a lifesaver when his back home bank card decided to stop working one day. Great cash rewards on the NFCU card. 

Thankfully, one of our son’s friends will be headed to BS with him and has been doing housing research I found out. I did send over the winners circle info that B’sNukeMom provided. Appreciate all of you jumping in to help a momma out. Happy Thursday!

Thanks Momof1!  We were able to FaceTime with B and his family so that was nice - he had a good day!

Back to the Ballston Spa conversation, I believe your son will really like it there.  B enjoyed his time there - he was there just over a year.  We were fortunate to be able to visit him twice while he was there.  The area is very nice - and we were able to make a trip to the Baseball Hall of Fame which made hubby happy!  I know that B and his buddies did a train trip into NY City for a long weekend and they really enjoyed that.  There's also the horse races there in Saratoga.  They weren't happening either time we were there but B's little brother visited him in August and they were able to go to the races. They all said that was fun.  It gets cold and lots of snow but B (as a born an raised CA boy) said it never bothered him lol!

Momof1 - You are welcome! And I had never thought about adding a child to a credit card to help them with their credit. We have 5, so it wasn't something we really thought about. 

B'sNukeMom - Happy Belated Birthday to B!! Cute picture. 

Chipmunk - I would imagine with 5, there was much more on the brain! I do try to pass that tip along to folks with teenagers in the household though because I benefited from it and saw the positive impact it had on our son and it’s such an easy thing we can do for them in a world of hard things on the regular. 

Happy First Day of Summer!!! Good and steamy in this part of the world 🥵

B’sNukeMom - so glad to hear B had a good day and birthday! I truly believe my son will enjoy BS as well! Everybody thinks he’s crazy to want to leave GC but he is a winter boy at heart. Loves all things cold and snowy. We took him and his best friend to Colorado for his senior trip last year and he’s still talking about it! Loves loves loves it. He’s excited and I’m excited for him because the boy he was a year ago is not the man he is today and he would have said no way to a change of scenery when he was settled in and comfortable. I’m happy he’s making the move and will share all of this information with him. Thanks so much for sharing! Y’all have a great day!

Momof1 - these pictures were taken during 2 visits to B in Ballston Spa.  Same location - the one on the left was April of 2014 (and I had dark hair lol!) and the one on the right was when we went for Prototype graduation in January 2015.

Oh my goodness!!! Love the pictures. Thanks for sharing!! My son is going to have a field day there it looks like. Especially since he will get fall and winter, his two favorites! 

Just want to share a funny incident regarding credit cards...  My son was underway, and they stopped in Florida for two weeks.  He tried to rent a car using Apple Pay, but the rental place requires a physical credit card to rent a car.  He had not brought his physical card on the sub, but he remembered that when he moved to Groton, he used Apple Pay to rent a UHaul.  So he went to UHaul in Florida and rented a cargo van for two weeks.  LOL

MomofJoseph - LOL a cargo van!! That’s so funny. Was very creative thinking 😝

MomofJoseph - definitely creative thinking!  I love it!

Happy Friday 🥰

Happy Friday!! : )

Good afternoon and happy Sunday! Does anyone know if there’s any reason we can’t hit the road immediately or shortly after power school graduation to head to Ballston Spa? Trying to arrange travel and several other moving parts with limited information we have received thus far. Can’t think of any but wanted to run it by this group in case there is something we aren’t thinking of. 

Momof1- I'm sure there's probably some sort of check out procedure they have to do.  Have your sailor check with his SLPO - and there should be a specific check in date that they have to report to Ballston Spa.  

I know B finished power school on 12/18/13 and he got to NY on 1/13/14.  But he didn't actually start Prototype until 4/14/14.

Copy that. Thank you for the information, as always! 

Happy Thursday!

Happy Thursday!  

Happy almost 4th! 

For all of our sailors who are working today, may they know how much their service is appreciated!! 

Chipmunk - YES!!! 

Hello and Happy Monday!! Good news B’sNukeMom…my son and his buddies have secured apartments in BS at the Winners Circle! Woot. Couldn’t have done without you, thank you!!

Momof1 - yay!  Glad I could help....I'm sure they will enjoy it there.  Hopefully you'll get to visit the area too!

That IS Great news, Momof1!  Thank you for sharing!!!

Momof1 - So glad to hear that your sailor has his apartment squared away at BS. I know our kids are adults and they can take care of this stuff, but sometimes it just seems like as a Mom we want to make sure everything is going smoothly and they know what they are doing.