Plane Tickets are Purchased, Hotel and Car Booked and now the Count Down Begins

Can't Wait To See My Baby Girl ~ I Miss Her So Much!!

A Day don't go by that I don't think about her and cry.

But I know she is doing something Wonderful !

And I AM SO PROUD OF HER!

GO 02/947 ~

My son Joshua is now halfway thru boot camp in the Great Lakes. It's gone by fast for me but I'm sure he doesn't feel the same. I've received two letters and a phone call from him so far. He sounded good except for a head cold - was eating very well. Joshua is a very strong and determined young man - he's going to be just fine.

Mom on the other hand is alittle anxious about…

Congrats Jenn!  Wonderful ceremony...we are so proud of you...XOXOX

Lookout Florida...here she comes!  LOL  XOXO HOOYA, WHOOT WOO,

YAHOO!! 

Throughout the past couple months i have started to come to terms with the new life my heart has chosen for me. Never in a million years did i ever think i would be able to be this strong and hold my head up high, with held back tears as i tell someone that i am a proud Navy Girlfriend. Girlfriend...that word sounds so weird to me these days because i do not feel like a "girlfriend" i feel like a new found woman who has made a promise to a man to keep faith in our relationship and love him…

After spending Thursday and most of Friday at MEPS, K was sent home due to a duplicate file on her with the wrong birth date.  She went back up yesterday and today swore in as an Advanced Intelligence Specialist.  Awesome since Intelligence is where she wanted to be.  She ships out to Great Lakes January 23! 

Needless to say, I am…

does anyone know if ship 11 div 314 has finished taking the pt test today did everyone pass

Hi, I thought I read some where on this site that there was a place to see streaming graduations.

My son graduates on 9/23, and is Master at Arm.  He said he was participating in two graduations prior to his own.

I was hoping to get a look at what he will actually be doing before I see him at graduation.

Does anyone know where I might be able to view the graduation of 9/9/2011?

Thanks!

As if the tenth anniversary of 9/11 isn't enough to set anyone into a melancholy mood, my mind is more focused on the fact that we are now into the final days before my son sets out for boot camp. And as we draw closer to his departure, I find that I burst out in tears over the most stupid, even mundane, things.

Take his laundry, for instance. He started a load in the washer and called me, asking me to please put them into the dryer for him, to be followed by another please of folding…

Ten days. How did we get to just ten more days to go until my son leaves me for a life unknown? Wasn't it just yesterday that he celebrated his 18th birthday?

No, he turned 18 in January, and on his birthday, he joined the US Navy under the Delayed Entry Program (DEP). I've got to give him credit. He wanted to do this himself, his first major decision as a 'man', so he waited until his 18th birthday when he could sign all the legal documents himself instead of having momma 'co-sign'…

Ok I am a newbie and some of the abbreviations have me confused so please decifer for me....

PIR, SR, MEPS and if you can think of any more that I am missing feel free to include those also....THANKS!!!!!

I have been good and waited to post to my blog until my daughter had a MEPS date.  I was out of town for the holiday and she called me yesterday (Tuesday) to let me know she will go to MEPS tomorrow and Friday.  The first of many "hurry up and wait" dates is almost here.

K is in college but is so ready to start her Navy career.  She…

I was asked why I want to write this blog about my son and our experience with him going through boot camp and onto A-School when he isn't even 'in' the Navy yet. That's like asking a pregnant woman why she's keeping a journal when her baby hasn't even arrived. DUH!!

It's a matter of preservation, of keeping a log of everything that's going on, the quick changes that are dealt us, the emotions associated with every step of the process.

One day, we will be able to go back and…

Does anyone on here live in Anacostia Washington D.C?? or moving moving there soon?? My husband is stationed there and    I am moving there in October. I would like to know do you guys recommend any apartments or townhomes??? I checked out the Bellvue but they have a 3-6month waiting list last I heard. Any information would help. Thanks -DEE :D