What the heck is wrong with Blogger???? There are many blogs that I have visited and for some strange reason I'm not able to comment. So for everyone who has seen me come in and not leave a comment now you know.... Dang blogger!!!!! I just came back from SARGE CHARLIE 's and found this most wonderful tribute posted over there... His guest blogger is Melessa from COOL CALM AND COLLECTED. From Saturday is posted a beautiful tribute to her fiance Jim who lost his life serving our great country. Please go over to Sarge's place and watch this tribute... but let me warn you you will need more than one tissue. From there Sarge will let you know where to go to give this brave young lady a hug... Everyone knows that FINALLY Matt started his new job last week. Since I'm not home Monday - Wednesday nights he felt that he needed to check in with me. So his first two nights he would call me on my cell phone, at 11:30 and say "Mom, I'm home... just wanted to let you know. I love you... talk to you tomorrow." The first night he did this I lay awake for some time and cried. Cried know that in 2 weeks he will graduate high school... close that chapter of his life and open a new one... Cried knowing that in 2 months he will be leaving and won't be able to call me and let me know that he is home. That he won't be able to let me know that he's safe. Cried know that my son is no longer a little boy but a very brave young man. A young man that I am so very proud to call my son. As we made the motions through the weekend I realized that in 2 months that my life will no longer be the same. I won't have two kids at home. I won't be screaming at them to leave each other alone, to keep their hands to themselves, to just hush up and not say another word to each other .... to think to myself... only to have peace. Yes I know that I have another child at home. My daughter.... ah yes... my daughter... who is another story in itself and will have to wait for another post. Y'all have been subject to some of her doings and sayings but not all.... and I know that life will not come to an end... and I know that I'm not the only mother in this world who has or will also close another chapter in life... and I know that I'm not the only mother who has or will ever send her only son off to boot camp ... but this is a first for me and I'm not really a good one for change. For instance this Monday morning... priceless... absolutely priceless.... We only have one bathroom in our house. So if someone is in the shower and you have to use the bathroom then we just knock, go in and use it. We can't see through the shower curtain and vice versa.... so Kaitlin goes in while Matt is taking a shower to use the bathroom.... I'm in the kitchen fixing their breakfast... she comes out... no problem... Matt comes out laughing his butt off... he says.. "you're never going to believe what Kaitlin said"... "What??"... well she's in their taking a dump and says "Matt, something stinks, did you fart?".... he said "No you dummy, I didn't fart, that's you, taking your dump"... I do believe that she had a freakin blonde moment... I've never laughed so hard in my life.... The little things like this is what will be missed.... but life will go on... Matt will survive... Kaitlin will survive, Tony will survive and I will survive....