Momma's little boy

I remember the day Nick was born with clear bright happy images. How small and sweet he was, and how very scared I was. Here I was 17 with a new baby. And I prayed, I prayed hard that I would be able to raise a fine upstanding kid. You know what I did. Don't tell Nick that I said that though. Give 'im a inch, and the kid will take a mile.

But I'm sitting here on a saturday night, waiting for Nick to come home from his friends house. And I wonder if he is catching hell from his buds, because he has a curfew. Not only does he have a curfew but its a midnight curfew. Strict? Yes? Fair? Yes! Kids run around way too much today and get into way too much trouble because parents aren't being parents. I hope that little things like this will make him better person, and a good soldier.

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Wake up!

How in the world is this boy gonna make it in boot camp? Dragging his butt up out of bed every morning for school is a, chore, hassle, battle World War 3. Here it is, 7:16 am. and he is still not downstairs, still hasn't taken a shower. He needs to leave here in a half hour. He has had to wake up calls, and the next will come from General Dad. Nick will grumble and complain about it. But when he hits boot camp he will think we are the nicest people in the whole world. Though you can't convince him of that just yet.

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Introduction of a kind

Let me start by saying that most mothers will tell you how incredibly smart their child/ren are. So that if all I said was "My child is incredibly smart", you would chalk it up to a mothers pride. But I don't just say that with a mothers pride, I've been fortunate to have (so far 3) incredibly smart children. They were in the schools gifted programs and always score in the 90th percentile in IOWA tests. I am shocked by this fact not because of their behavior but because I'm not that smart. So when I say Nick is intelligent, I gots me some proof to back it up. ;) that and that he used to be a straight A student (that is until he realized he could maintain a C/B average without even opening a book).

So when the process started for real of Nick entering the service, I wasn't shocked at his ASVAB score. 90 overall. Nor was I shocked to find they decided to put him into military intelligence. What did surprise me was that he signed up for 6 years.

The next surprise came with after basic I don't even get to have my child come home for the week before going off to AIT. Though I will be able to go to Fort Leonard Wood for the weekend to see him graduate and spend the weekend with him. Then its off to Arizona with him, and 49 weeks training there.

The scheduled date for me to hand my child over to Uncle Sam is July 7th. I feel several emotions with this date,

1. extreme pride in Nick, he is no longer a little boy
2. deep sadness, he is no longer a little boy
3. fear of where this path will take him. Will it take him into war? I cant continue with that thought
4. Hope for his future
5. and worry that we may have been lied to, and he wont be trained in what career he chose

Nick has a awesome recruiter, that I feel really cares about these kids, and that they respect him.

(more to come later)

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Welcome to the first day..

Ok this blogs first day. I have a 17yr old son who has recently signed up for a 6yr stint in the U.S Army. I actually made sure he was aware this opportunity was available to him. Because I just don't have the money to send him to college, and he is way too smart to stay in this area, and work for 6 bucks a hour in some sweat shop.

This blog will be my tale of my training in the service. That service would be "Mother's Of Soldiers" (and for now on refered to as MOS). I am proud to have raised such a smart intelligent young man. That will defend not only myself, but our great country.

Later posts will tell the whole story of how why and when my boy signed up.

Follow me through MOS Boot camp.

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