Dianne (Drew's Mom)'s Blog (4)

Andrew has been home for the last week while on hold from A School. While home, he has been so active, which is so unlike what he was before he joined the Navy. Before Navy he was ALWAYS at home. Now he is always out. While I was happy that he was going out, I couldn't help feel that I was being "Shut out." When I would ask him where he was going he would say, "I'm an adult now. I've lived on my own." He's 20. He didn't stay out really late, maybe 1:00 am, and not every night. He watched movies… Continue

I am going to try to post pictures of the commissioning. I took these with my IPhone camera. Hopefully they come out alright on here. The commissioning was awesome!! I wish more people could have made it to the luncheon. It was great meeting all of you ;)…

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Yesterday I received a phone call from California! That was unexpected for me. At first I thought, "Another bill collecter?" Since Dennis's serious illnes last year we have not been able to catch up. It was a good thing I picked up the phone. She said that her name was Darcy, and she was from California. Then she said, "I have your son's Navy pictures." I replied with a stunned and disappointed, "Whhhaaat? Oh No." Drew graduated on June 20th, and I still have not seen his pictures, which of… Continue

Today was a kind of bad day. I know it sounds silly, but my husband and I went grocery shopping (bi-weekly) for the first time since Drew left. It started out okay, but before you knew it I just needed very badly to get out of there. I kept seeing all of Drew's favorite foods, foods I would often buy for him (he loves turkey pepperoni), and then since January trying so hard to buy things he would like that would help him make the body fat ratio, like flavored Aquafina water, edible pea pods,… Continue