I almost had a melt down ...

When Matt first left for boot camp, I was often emotional at the drop of a hat, and never really knew what would trigger them. But after a couple of weeks, I seemed to adjust and the emotions were much more under control. The past few weeks or so, they seem to have flooded back and may be almost as bad as (or even worse than!) they were at the beginning! Yesterday, I was in a sitting in with a third party auditor and my boss. This is the same auditor that I was in with at one of our sister plants the week after Matt left for boot camp. After we had finished all the discussions, he remembered and asked about my son. I started explaining that we will be leaving on October 17 and that he graduates on October 19 … And as I started telling them that....well, I started tearing up! I was mortified, as this was not the "time or place," and I was so concerned that once the floodgates were about open, there would be no stopping the tears! And how unprofessional would this display of emotions be? Yikes! But, I basically pulled it together without the tears rolling down my cheek, and managed to keep myself only teary-eyed. He seemed to understand - as best he can without being a parent of a Marine-to-be...at least he is a parent! I think he may have even been a little touched by the parent pride that caused a showing of emotions neither he nor my boss has ever seen before from me. Third party auditor still here ... will be until tomorrow ... I've gotta run ... SMOOCHES~