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

Wow what a change.

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!

I have a little bit of time to write.  Amazing!

On December 7th, my eldest son – middle child – went into USMC Boot Camp.  Sunday, December 6th I dropped him off at the recruiter’s office and that’s the last I’ve seen of my boy.  That’s a key word – “Boy”.  You see, once he graduations and becomes a Marine – he will forever be lost as a boy.  Sound harsh?  Maybe – but it’s true.  The come home men.  Parent’s girls who leave for Parris Island come back Women.  It’s inevitable.

I’ve been lucky to have found Recruit Parents Forums within the Marine Parents website.  There are parents, girlfriends, wives, etc. that are going through the same thing I am and with the same platoon as my son.  It’s a very good form of relasing I guess you would say.  The USMC is the longest Basic Training of all of the military basic’s.  My son will be gone for 13 weeks and I’ll be able to go to his graduation on March 5th.  Ofcourse, the drop out rate is high for Marines I’m sure – so I’m going to assume my son will make it through.  Of that, I have no doubt.

The emotions I’m going through are plenty.  In no certain order:

• Pride
• Sadness
• Loneliness
• Happiness
• Fear
• Excitement
• Loss
• Frightened

In all of that, Pride tops the list.  To be a USMC Recruit Mother – there are few of us as there are few Marines.  I’ll let you know what it means to be a USMC Mother when that happens.

For those interested – the link for the Marine Parents Site is:  MarineParents.com

It’s Christmas – and I miss my son.  My daughter and my youngest son are at her Grandma’s house for Christmas day.  It’s just me and Daniel for the night.

I feel so lost.  For the last 21 years all I’ve ever done is be a mom.  What the heck happens when that’s not a full time plus job anymore?  Who am I?

Love and Light to all of you ~ I am blessed to have made connections with you.

~Monica~

Jim leaves on the 12th.

That’s… 12 days.

12 More days.

A big 1 and 2.

12. Days.

I’m doing okay.

The party is on this Saturday.

Oh who am I kiddin…

This is one of my most favorite songs, and what better than for it to be a tribute to our heroes. While my son James only has a few more months before going into the USMC – this proud momma wants to give tribute to our heroes. My brother is a police officer and deserves my tribute as well.

Top Left – My son, Stephen | Top Right – My brother Tim | Bottom Left – My daughter’s guy – Joseph | Bottom Middle – My daughter – Jessica | Bottom Right – My son, James

Bless you all.

This is Alabama – Angels Among Us

Well let us see how last night went shall we?

I was trying to get this blog in some kinda order after changing hosts. I have a temporary Wordpress Theme up, but I like how it’s situated. Just not the colors or lack thereof. But, when I went to have fun and change stuff around the most HUGEST (is that a word?) headache hit like a ton of bricks. Oh my goodness. Then, it was so bad I felt sick. So, off the computer I went and straight to bed.

Then, the hubby comes home – bless his heart. Dotting all over me and taking care of me like the wonderful hubby he is. We watched Ghost Whisperer Season Two Disc Two – one or two episodes and I was done. I had a pounding headache and felt like crud.

Then, we got into an argument. A new one? No… more of the same thing. It didn’t end well so this morning I got on the phone and told him I was sorry. Lordy. Lordy. Being married means so many things, but one thing it means is ya can’t get away from them. LOL So you better make up.

Making up is fun actually. He’s been so wonderful lately, I guess feeling sick mixed with other stuff just set me off. No bigge – we *kissed* and made up so to speak.

It’s been rough here. He’s working so hard and my client base has dwindled due to so many things. So I’m barely making it financially. Which means, he’s doing all the work. I’m at home taking care of the house, making sure my kids get all their school stuff done, and working on the clients I have left – ’cause I love them and am very grateful to have them.

My kids are both in Independent Study now. It’s like homeschooling really. I have their schedule every day of what they need to do, I meet with their teacher once a week to get more work for them and turn in their assignments (rather, they do that – I take notes). BUT their report cards came in! WOW! It’s the biggest improvement I’ve ever seen from them. They are so proud! So is this momma.

So my husband is working away while I’m doing all of these things that are important – but, what happened to me holding my own financially? I was the sole supporter for over 10 years now I’m home? It’s a huge adjustment.

I’m starting school on the 20th of this month. I’m almost embarassed to say what for ’cause I’ve been laughed at a few times. But I’ll say it here – and let me be very clear this is what I had wanted since I was young, but babies etc. well… you know what happens to plans when you have the little ones. Okay, my major is Physics. Yes, laugh all ya want. Who knows I could change my mind. I’m already an Accountant, this would be a complete career change that will take YEARS to get to. But there are some really neat opportunities just in the first year of being an undergraduate! No laughing… okay, you can laugh. We’ll see how far this goes, but at least I can go for it!

In February I’ll be 41 years old/young. I’m so extremely excited about my 40s! It’s me time after my Stephen is graduated in June of 2010. That’s not that far away. Jimmy goes into the USMC on June 14th, and my daughter is already out and on her own. I do have my Step Son Daniel that will be 14 (OMG!) on the 11th of this month, but his momma does all the hard work with him. I just get to love him to death when we get him. So I’m almost done… wow.

Many things are going on now in my life – I just want to be sure I enjoy ever moment of it you know?

Wow, life is Grand!

It’s official – Jim did his swearing in today.  He’s a recruit now (they aren’t Marines until they graduate Boot Camp/Basic Training).

His official date to *leave* to training is 6/15/2009.

So, here sits a very proud momma.

USMC Graphic - Marine Parents DOT com

In the middle of my 7 things I’m most thankful for, one of those, my eldest son – Jimmy – had a bit of a life change.

Since my boys were little (3?) they each stated clearly they wished to be in the military. Hey, it’s part of our family in some ways. In other ways, it’s something I always wanted to do but had a *hiccup* and couldn’t.

So, my son – Jimmy – is doing what he can to get enough credits in school to get into the delayed entry program for the United States Marines. He’s hopeful he’ll leave for boot camp by next summer.

There are so many things that have come up for me on this.

However, I’m going to leave that for another time… for now “Be Happy”.

Bobby Mcferrin – Don’t Worry, Be Happy

I’ll be back on as soon as the dust settles.