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It Has Begun....
These past few days have been a blur. They all went much too fast and contained so much emotion, I am exhausted.
Saturday began with my son's girlfriend arriving from college as a surprise. He thought he had said his final goodbye to her a week earlier. But we had her get here for his going away party. I was so touched by how many people stopped by to wish him well and by the overwhelmingly kind words to my son and about my son from friends, church family, former teachers, etc. We had no expectation at all of gifts or cards but many were given to him. After all had left, he went into his room and read everything in private. Visibly touched, he then brought them out for us to read. I am so thankful now for those cards here and have read them A LOT the past few days. A favorite gift was a Faith Shield on a chain with a verse from Joshua on it.
Sunday was my first day with a lot of tears. All in my family are musicians and we make music together. My husband and children are all part of a contemporary praise band at our church. My sailor recruit is a drummer, his brother plays guitar and sings, my daughter plays piano and my husband plays bass guitar. They performed together for the last time on Sunday. I tried to commit to memory every second of their song "Use Somebody" by Kings of Leon. The rest of the praise band picked songs they knew were favorites of my sons for the drum part. During the community prayer time of our service, so much love for my son. I could not contain my tears. After church, just watching the outpouring of love for my son again overwhelmed me. We headed off for our last family lunch at a favorite family place....Fuddruckers....and even got the Beatles themed booth!!! Lots of laughing ensued. Football took up the rest of the day.
Monday his recruiter picked him up to take him to MEPS. His brother almost didn't make it home in time to say goodbye (his sister had her goodbye before she headed off to high school) but his recruiter was so kind and waited until older brother made it home. Watching them hug goodbye was hard. We are so blessed to live less than an hour away from MEPS and my husband and I reserved a room at the same hotel as our son. We checked in and were able to spend the afternoon and evening together. We brought our laptop and webcam so he could have one last skype date with his girlfriend.
Tuesday was the day that my son has been looking forward to for so long and I've been dreading. He is so excited for this new chapter. He has been working extremely hard the past few months for his PST each month (he has a contract for SEAL training after basic). During the swearing in ceremony, I had tears streaming down my face. The Air Force captain that performed the ceremony was so kind. Shortly after, his name was called to board the bus to GL and the final goodbye took place. I couldn't think of anything inspirational to say and just mumbled "I love you and am so proud of you". Didn't seem nearly enough to say. I was numb as I drove away. I dropped him off at college 2 years ago and have been through goodbyes before.....but this is sooooo different.
Since we live so close to GL, we received the "I'm here" phone call early afternoon. He sounded quiet, matter of fact, and it lasted no more than about 10-15 seconds, if that. The past 24 hours I still feel numb and find myself thinking, "I wonder what he's doing right now". I feel like my brain isn't working right and that I have to remind myself how to do things that are usually done naturally without processing how to do it. Driving, my duties at work this morning, my afternoon run, etc. I feel like I'm obsessing about everything "Navy".....where do I get a blue star banner, I should get blue candles, etc.
Looking forward to my fuzzy brain becoming normal again, the tears to slow down, letters, a phone call, PIR.
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Comment by DisneyDebi (02/903) on October 5, 2011 at 6:30pm
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I have been experiencing the exact same things that you have...my son arrived at GL yesterday as well. I too feel a little in a fuzzy mind set and am looking forward to all the same things that you are.
Good Luck - maybe our boys will be in the same division!
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Comment by bobbysproudmom on October 5, 2011 at 10:09pm
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You can get a Blue Star Flag at mybluestarflag.com
Best of luck to you and your soon to be Sailor!
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Comment by AZKmom on October 5, 2011 at 10:34pm
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DisneyDebi....good luck to you and your son as well!! From information I've gathered, I'm guessing my son will be in an 800 division for spec ops. Is your son in spec ops? If you're on Facebook, there is an RTC page that has been helpful to me and fun.
bobbysproudmom....thank you for the info!
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Comment by BunkerQB on October 6, 2011 at 3:01am
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AZKmom and DisneyDebi,
http://www.navyformoms.com/group/sealmoms?
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AZK - No my son isn't spec ops...I'm sure that means they won't be together LOL You must be so proud! Our sons will still be going thru all of this at the same time though...so I know we can go thru this together too :)
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