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Yeah! We got to see my son, we get to take him home tomorrow.

Wow what a change.

We are on our way to San Diego! I have thus iPhone app that I can blog with, so I’m gonna blog our journey. Sorry ahead of time if there are tons of spelling errors. It’s difficult as heck to type on this thing!

So, I dropped off my FuzzKid, Indy, at the Brentwood Pet Resort. Yes, resort! Ha! You can have them taken on nature walks, groomed, massaged (really!). Ofcourse my 90 lb beasty pup is too much of a male for the massage (he told me that) – I did get him the extra extended nature walk. I didn’t get him the ice cream treats, but don’t tell him – he’ll never know!

We are making our way over an hour later than I thought we would leave. That’s just me. Daniel gets agitated over waiting fir me, but I personally don’t get stressed over times when it’s a drive. I mean air travel yes, I’m on time and too early usually. However, one of my most favorite things to is road trips!

I used to do road trips all the time! Seems that’s not been too often lately! That’s okay, I have a ton of plans for my future. Travelling on a whim is one of them.

I’m thinking of Sedona Arizona. I have a new friend who lives in Arizona and I think it would be really great to go spend time with her to get to know her better. Friends are so important in life ya know?

Okay weird I just lost a ton of writing. As I was saying before my iPhone app went whacky, there are 16 of us going down to se James. We have 6 in the van right now! Including my preggo daughter. Yeah! Road trip!!

More later!

Is it just me, or are there more and more large earthquakes happening lately?  8.8 Magnitute Earthqake in Chili – which, was 500 times more powerful they said than the Haiti quake.

Here are the listing of the significant earthquakes from the USGS Site for 2010. Seems to me, something is going on – gee, dunno.

Now there is a tsunami warning for the coast Mexico, California, Oregon, Washington and all the way up to Alaska.  Hawaii ofcourse is on the list for the warning and the tsunami will hit there they said in about 4 hours.  You can read more at the link.

I hope every keeps safe.  Looks like the Tsunami waves aren’t that big though… let’s hope.

Meanwhile, seems the earth is talking!  Could be time to listen.

Stay safe, and my thoughts are with Chili and everyone involved.

As of Thursday, February 25th my son is a United States Marine. 

I couldn’t be more proud of him. 

I can’t imagine what he’s gone through to get here.

As for me – I’m officially a United States Marine Corps Mother. 

My son has your back America. 

Blessings to all who serve – you are my heroes.

 

Special thanks to the website and forums that kept me sane during all of this:

 Recruit Parents (at Marine Parents Site)

Next week our family will be going to MCRD San Diego for his graduation and Family Day. 

I’m sure I’ll have a ton of pics for your enjoyment heh!

Well, it’s the husband’s birthday. 

Now he’s the same age I am. 

We are 8 days apart. 

So for 8 days he tells me how old I am. 

Hah! 

So now he’s caught up!

So first I’d like to say – Live Long and Prosper

Happy Birthday Dearest Daniel

With Love,

The Old Lady

 

Well, as you know from the prior post I was done with the series from Kelley Armstrong.  I’m definitely awaiting her book due out this August, BUT I have to read something.  So I was venturing around for another series. 

I just bought the first book in a series.  The author is Patricia Briggs and the Series is the “Mercy Thompson” series.  Looks interesting.  Shape shifters, vampires, werewolves – I’ll let you know what I find and weather I like it or not.

Here’s to reading!

Moon Called (Mercy Thompson)

My son is graduating the USMC Basic Training on March 5th. I’m very proud of him, but ofcourse am feeling a bit of loss as I’ve stated here before.  I’ll get over it, but with alot of talking about it I’m sure.  I wanted to put up a progression series of photos here.  Enjoy.

 

Sometimes songs hit you like a bolt of lightening.  Songs that take your breath away because what they are saying and the music – it fits your soul perfectly.

This one came on the radio loud – and I actually cried so hard it hurt.

Ever had that happen?

I had to pull over until I could stop crying.

This song, for me, right now – hits me as deep as my soul has buried itself.

Edit – the artist is Lunatica and the album is “The Edge of Infinity”

I got some letters from him in the past few days.  His attitude is very good!  But – momma is fallin’ fast.  I have one in the military basic training, one child on her way to being a momma and another child 6 months away from High School Graduation.

What now?  Each day I got up it was for my kids.  I know that isn’t how it should be – but we had some very hard financial times for many many years.  The only thing holding me together and focused alot of times were my babies.  The laughter, the running around – the neighbors kids bolting through the house screaming with mine.

It’s too quiet.  It’s scary.  Time flies by too quickly.  I miss my babies….