I joined a group called Navy Mom Connection and talked with someone from there tonight. It feels so weird - and it's heartbreaking - to be thinking about when Matt leaves and begins a life that doesn't include us. Not that I thought he would be mine his whole life. One day he'll just leave and he won't be home for months, as in many. And this won't be his home anymore. His home will be wherever the Navy sends him.
The transition will be so quick in fact, that his sister will move into his room when he leaves for RTC because he won't be back. We will see him (hopefully) eight weeks later for (again, hopefully) a few days after graduation and then he'll leave for A School in Florida.
How do military moms - parents - handle this transition? I think about this all the time now. I know that parents have been doing this for decades, I just wonder how I will handle it.
