Good Intentions

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Well, I had good intentions.  I have some things printed out from the news today that I wanted to spend time on.  But, I got into an IM conversation with my older son.

He lives just outside of Seattle now, moved out there from Georgia in January. I miss him.

His younger brother is joining the service.  He leaves for basic on the 25th.  It’s tearing me up.  He’s pretty naive and quite gullible.  I know he isn’t emotionally mature enough to do this, but I can’t stand in his way. 

So I just spent more than an hour chatting with my older son about how we can convince my younger son to adjust his contract and reduce the number of years he is committing to serve.  I know he wants to serve, and I have no problem with that.  I just don’t think it’s wise for an 18 year old man to be able to sign-up for more than two years.  An 18 year old man (or woman) will learn more in those two years than he will ever learn out in the world.  Then he will be man enough to sign up for more if he wants.

Truthfully, I think every 18 year old citizen of the United States should give a least 2 years to the military.  Not only will you learn a lot about survival and weapons, but you will have first hand knowledge of the military.  You would be able to understand the restrictions and rules that have to be adhered to.  And perhaps most of all, you learn a lot about YOURSELF in the process. 

But, Uncle Sam has yet to ask my opinion.

This transition from Mother to mother is really hard.  Harder than I thought it would be.  On the one hand it is my responsibility to have my children ready to get out into the world and taking care of themselves.  And I have kinda been looking forward to the “freedom” of not having to worry about the boys at the house when I want to take off somewhere for the weekend.  But, now that time is almost here and I am not sure what to do.

I’ve been a full-time mom for 21 years.  I don’t know how to be a mom-on-call.  I’ve read about it.  I’ve thought about it.  I’ve tried to plan to be busy so I don’t think about it. 

Well, maybe I just need to watch Futurama.  Yeah, that’s what I’ll do.

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