EVERYONE ... thank you very much for the congrats and best wishes!! I have been in a whirl wind for the past 2 weeks and haven't been on the site to acknowledge you all!
Chip was right ... we sent a kid to Parris Island and brough home a man. It is so amazing ... I hardly recognized him!
The 10 days that Robert was "home" passed soooo fast. Yesterday, at 030 hours (that's 12:30 am), he caught the bus to Jacksonville, NC for 21 days of intense combat training.

Then he'll be off to Missouri for 9 weeks of MOS school.

I think letting go of him this time was one of the hardest things I've ever done in my life.

Probably because he's not my baby

any longer ... he's a man ... WOW ... my job is done!

The Silver and Black Sporty the Skippy referred to was being considered for Robert but he has his heart set on the Marine Special Edition Fat Boy. And that's okay 'cause he just didn't look right on that Sporty!
Anyway, thanks again everyone!
And ... did we tell you how proud we are of him?
