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sitting in the dark with Seth a room away sleeping like a baby for one more morning...
I never really understood the word bittersweet until this morning. His sister Sydney, my gf Christina and myself took him to supper last night for the last time before BC. Seth choose to live with his dad after the divorce and I backed him in his decision so I haven't been around him 24/7 since he was 13. We are about 30 mins apart so seen each other often but is that ever really enough? no, it's not and I live with guilt everyday that I wasn't there for him like a mom should have been.
He has grown into an awesome, caring, loving, dependable young man and his decision to join the Navy will only polish those amazing qualities he has.
I can't wait for his journey to start and I pray it is everything he envisions it will be and more.
Seth I love you more than life, I hope in your heart you have always known this and always will....
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Comment by KC11 on October 9, 2013 at 12:19am
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Support him, write him everyday. Forget guilt, just because you were not with him 24/7 you're apart if his life. Encourage him it will be a tough time in bc. Don't dwell on negatives but only talk about the positives and the wonderful young man he is becoming,
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Comment by Milette (Ship13/Div 037) on October 9, 2013 at 12:41am
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KC11, thank you, I WAS feeling sorry for myself, I need to focus on the here and now and his wonderful future he's about to start, he left my house this morning and of course I cried, couldn't help it, but he just smiled and told me he loved me and it will be okay...lol....shouldn't I have been the one saying that?? Just reinforced to me that he's doing exactly what he wants to do and somehow it calmed me, did I tear up a few more times today? YES...but I will make it thru these next 9 weeks knowing he doesn't want to be anywhere else but at BC :-)
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Comment by HuffyMom23 on October 10, 2013 at 10:59am
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Like KC11 said, write him all the time. That is all I keep hearing from so many people that those letters really help them thru BC. My son left on 9-11 and I try and write him at least 3 times a week. I sorta run out of things to write about. We live in a small town which has no excitement to write about! lol I want to tell him how much we miss him and how this empty nest thing isn't working out so great right now. :) But, I know not to put those things because I don't want him to get down knowing that we miss him so much. It is really hard and every day I think back to the last week we had with him and it makes me sad. It is just knowing that they are being turned into young men so quickly. Good luck with everything!
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Thank you huffymom, we are from a very small town also. No stop lights lol, I joked with him he was going to know everyday what I had for lunch
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