He Did It!!!

Tomorrow we are leaving to bring Josh home after 13 long weeks, many tears, and the toughest thing he's ever gone through. I am so excited, I bet I won't be able to sleep for the next 2 nights. My son is now a Marine!!! I am so very proud of him and can't even begin to imagine the things that he has done.
Thursday is Family Day, that will be the first time that I get to see him. The banner made with love will be proudly held, and I just hope that I can pick him out of the crowd of 300 other new Marines. We get to spend the day with him after that, having him back to his barracks by 14:45 (like that new military time). Thursday night we will be getting together with the other families from his company to make up the "SAM" bags for the guys who have no family there. I'll finally get to meet a lot of the family members that i've chatted with over the past 3 months. Hopefully get a good night sleep. Friday is graduation, starting at 10:00 AM and let's just hope I don't need the Bounty that everyone is talking about. I've heard that there is a long line waiting to get off the island, so i've volunteered to help out with giving out the bags. Then we'll head on home and I'll get to have him here for 10 short days. Then off to his next course of training.

I am so very, very proud of my Josh. Thanks for all your prayers and encouragement, I know it's meant a lot to him and me. I'll post pictures as soon as I can, you can bet between me and Mom, we'll have a ton of them.