The waiting continues.....

[Alexs momma ( ship 03, Div 017)]

Week 3! Maybe this week we will receive a letter....boy I hope so. Her dad and I write her everyother day. Just to keep her updated on the family and home...but I'm so anxious to hear from her! Sometimes time is not our friend.

[preston8655]

I know you are anxious to get that first letter. Be patient it'll come and you will be so proud, maybe short but you will be happy to get that short note my son will be graduating next fri 11/5 and I can't wait to see him. Hang in there, keep them letters goin.

[chandlersmom]

No letters yet either!! Week 3

[NM Loreta-Ship11,Div002 PIR11/19]

I soooooo know the waiting is painful! My son is in week 5 at BC and I just wanted to tell you that it is so wonderful hearing from him now (phone/letters). His letter tone and voice on the phone has changed so much! Its hard for us to understand but it seems it gets alot easier for them in BC as the weeks go one. In talking to my son last sunday, he acutally said he is having FUN?!?!?! So keep your chin up....it gets better for them (and you!). I FINALLY was able to remove my son's 'kid in the box clothes' from the box that I sleep next to every nite and wash them. Ahhhhhhhhhhhh what a difference a few weeks make!

I still marvel every single day at just how amazingly brave these KIDS are. Mostly the girls. I consider myself a strong person but not sure I am brave enough to ever do what they girls are doing for our country. Amazing!

Before BC, someone told my son to focus on meal to meal time versus day to day until PIR and the time moves fast. I too took that advise and the few times I talked to my son, he told me it worked. I know its worked for me...although TODAY..I counted 23 days till PIR..lol.

I write every day as well. He proabaly wants to kill me because I write in cards or put letters in cards and the last week or so has ALL been orange envelopes. He probaby is getting crap in bc BUT..he would expect nothing else from me..ha! Keep positive and keep writing! He did say they keep him going and he LOVES them.

[Rayma]

Ah, I do remember when my daughter went to boot camp and the waiting for that first letter was such torture! I was such a basket case and my husband, who was a Master Chief in the Navy at that time, called and checked up on her. She was fine of course, she was just so busy that writing a letter was secondary to sleeping and eating. When she did finally write, the letters were short spurts of "I miss home and I am fine". We had quite a letter campaign going on for her, I doubt there was a day she did not receive a letter or card from a family member or friend. I too thought that perhaps we may have over done the letters but she later said that receiving mail was the one major highlight in her day. Sometime we just sent her an article about her old high school, or even a funny cartoon from the newspaper, but if it brought a smile to her face it was well worth it. My advice is to hang it there, and keep sending your daughter mail, you will one day receive that "I miss you mom" letter in the mail. My daughter has been in the Navy now for 13 years and texting has now become our main method of communication, and that works just fine for me. I am a proud Navy mom....