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Jealous for her time
The days are quickly ticking off my calendar for Kate's ship out to Boot Camp. I am trying not to, but am finding it hard not to be jealous of my remaining time with her. She works full time, but also has at least two days off in between 24 hour shifts. I am extremely proud of her work ethic when she offers to pick up a 12 hour for a coworker, but that takes away from time I could spend with her. Her best friend attended paramedic school with her and they work at the same company, but not as partners or even on the same shifts. Best friend is engaged to be married and Kate spends a good deal of her free time helping her shop and plan for her wedding. Then there's the "ex". Don't get me wrong, when my daughter committed to him last September when he proposed, I also committed to him. But a month later the engagement was called off mutually. Kate knew they were not on the same page in their faith, and it was thankfully more important to her than being married to someone who would not share any faith with her. Still, it was a tough breakup and as they are still "friends" she spends quite a bit of her time with him as well because they are just delaying the inevitable good-bye. What is a mother to do? I guess this is good training for boot camp and beyond but it sure is hard not to complain. I work in a coffee shop mostly early mornings and have the majority of the afternoon and evening off, and that's usually when we work out at the gym together, but lately she has been elsewhere. I already miss her and she still lives with me!! I don't want to be that clingy mom who drives her daughter crazy by demanding her time. I want to learn to be a gracious empty-nester that allows her to grow up and be independent. This is going to be one tough assignment to learn!
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Comment by Leach73 on February 10, 2015 at 10:43am
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God never gives us more than we can handle.
Hang in there! God will see you through.
:)
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Comment by DepthCharge4 on February 10, 2015 at 11:18am
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Thank you so much for your kind reminder. I'm guessing there will be a grieving process that we all go through, no matter how strong we try to be. Thank God, He never leaves or forsakes us and that others who have gone before us are still there to comfort us with the same comfort with which He comforted them!
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What a great idea! I think I will try this. She is finishing her paramedic job a week before Ship out so at least I can ask for that first day, and the last day before she goes to Camp D for her last MEPS. I plan to show up to her hotel for dinner before she has to go back to her room and show up at her last swearing in at the base next day.
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Comment by Henry's Mom on March 4, 2015 at 5:29pm
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DepthCharged, we went through the same thing these last few weeks. Son left for MEPS yesterday, swore in last time today and is now flying to GL. We wound up driving him to MEPS hotel yesterday (through an ice storm), had dinner together, met up again at MEPS and witnessed the swearing in ceremony. Video taped it too. We got pieces of his time these last weeks. Was tough but he was not ornery either.
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Henry's Mom, Daughter told us not to come to hotel for dinner because she would most likely have a roommate and wanted to not leave her out. But she said we could come to last MEPS swearing in and eat lunch with her before getting on a bus for the airport. Will they still even be at MEPS through lunch? Are you a Mid-westerner dealing with our weather or someplace out East? Did recruiter not want to take your son to the hotel? Here, recruiter takes them after checking in for last DEP
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Our weather is really bad. We drove him yesterday to the hotel through an icy storm. We'd dropped him off at the recruiting office but since he was the only one going, it would have been him and a recruiter. Since we were going anyway, they were ok with him going with us. We got to the hotel - he checked in with MEPS office there, and we got our room. Met up about an hour later for dinner. His meal was free - charged to the MEPS account, we paid for ours, of course.
When we were eating dinner with our son, he hadn't had his roommate assigned yet, and he was glad to eat with someone he knew.
They had breakfast this morning about 6AM and were taken to the MEPS building about 8AM. We got there about 9. His swearing in took place about 9:30, then he was free to chat for another hour. When it was time for the recruits to go to lunch we left to go home. They ate around 11:30AM and then left for the planes; theirs took off about 5:30 and landed in Chicago about 8:30PM. We got 'the call' about 10PM.
We are in PA and dealing with the weather too :)
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