Well this is it, tomorrow at 4pm my son goes to the hotel in El Paso and then Tuesday morning he leaves for Ft. Jackson, SC for basic training. I know he'll be home in mid-August for his senior year of high school, but I already miss him so much. Tonight will be the last time for almost 11 weeks that I will go to bed with my 17yr. old son here, that has not happened many times over the years, he's always here. He's going to come back more mature, a little more adult, with some good experiences and some bad.
Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers for me, I want him to succeed so badly and I'm so afraid he won't make it this first try, he's so young. If he doesn't make it he gets to try again since he's still in high school, and it won't really count against him, but I just don't want him to fail, it would just tear him apart. I can't even mention it to him because I don't want him to think that I don't believe in him, I do, he's just my baby for a little while longer.
8:58pm Flew out of El Paso at 12:45pm, got to Atlanta, left Atlanta on a bus at 5MST just got to Ft. Jackson at 8:58.
GRADUATION DATE: AUGUST 21!!!
Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers for me, I want him to succeed so badly and I'm so afraid he won't make it this first try, he's so young. If he doesn't make it he gets to try again since he's still in high school, and it won't really count against him, but I just don't want him to fail, it would just tear him apart. I can't even mention it to him because I don't want him to think that I don't believe in him, I do, he's just my baby for a little while longer.
8:58pm Flew out of El Paso at 12:45pm, got to Atlanta, left Atlanta on a bus at 5MST just got to Ft. Jackson at 8:58.
GRADUATION DATE: AUGUST 21!!!
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