One month from today!

[Lynpar]

Haha. We are all in the same boat! (intended). July 6 DS leaves for USMMA. He is going it alone which is going to be easier for him. The drinking option isn't a good one for me but the "I want to work as hard as he is " plan is up my alley. I have gained a lot of weight since November, heck since last summer, when this all started. My doctor asked me where I had put on the weight. I stated " on my couch"! (rim shot please) reading every word of this forum. Okay, and Facebook. By Parents Weekend my golf game will be the best it has ever been! That is where I plan to spend my nervous energy. Short game, that's the ticket. Next winter I will be quilting up a storm. Look for Mariner's Compass quilts to start showing up as fundraisers. At least those are my plans, we'll see. This is all so weird. I am so happy to have had two graduate from high school last week and so happy to have launched my young men towards their adult lives. But pass the tissues! Frozen vodka huh? Perhaps. Maybe next year I can change my name to Lynbirdie.

 

[kpdad2015]

...I am so happy to have had two graduate from high school last week...

We also had 2 graduate from high school last week, our DS will also be reporting at the USMMA on July 7th. Thankfully (for my wife who's missing them already) our DD doesn't have to show up at her regular college until the middle of August for Band Camp.

 

[Lynpar]

At least I will know where the one at KP is in the wee hours of the morning. He will be hating life in Long Island. The other? Party town USA of the Big 10

 

[Lynpar]

Here we are a month later. Looking around, the sky hasn't fallen and the sun still comes up. hhmmm, why am I surprised by that? Now I am finding the dread and anticipation of DS flying out to KP was way worse than the reality. At least on this end that is, lol, he might beg to differ. First phone call coming on Sunday, maybe the the bottom will fall out then. I am just so darned happy and proud that he has this chance. This is exactly where he should be and because I feel this way I am not sad at all. I actually feel relieved. Oh, and I started swimming laps, and painted a room, and wrote a bunch or cards and took my DD shopping and, and, worked a bunch of hours, and played golf and, and, and, spent hours on this forum every night searching for "Waldo". that was the first day. maybe I am a little nuts, at least I am being productive.