<p>64 more days!</p>
<p>63 more days! just over two months!! SO FAST!</p>
<p>62 days! countem’ down. 62 days!</p>
<p>:eek: YIKES!</p>
<p>61 days … can you believe it!</p>
<p>Hey JM!
How’s everything in the upstate? (Y’all had any rain yet??)</p>
<p>How’s that grandbaby? I looked for one like her on ebay, but no luck! I guess eveyone who has one is keeping her!</p>
<p>Sadly no rain… But the baby said “Dada” four times yesterday! I’ll have her saying “Go Navy” by next week! Thanks for askin’! </p>
<p>Carry on Mom2Lola! We’re at 61 days & counting. I love it. Weeeeeee!</p>
<p>nickinest, I just read your post from back in Feb. (I haven’t been to cc since probably right around I-day). Remembering back I probably felt the same way. My son had wanted to go to the Academy since 2nd grade. I thought it would be a great idea and always encouraged him. When he got accepted, I was thrilled and thanked God that my son got his dream. But I had those same mom concerns.(I think dads have them too they just don’t verbalize them). I-day and plebe summer were perhaps the hardest, because that’s when we have to let them go. Thankfully God helps us through it all and today I can’t believe that in 10 days we will be going to see Herndon. The time does fly by, cherish it. Congratulations to you and all 2011 parents. May God bless all our children.
Ana
Andrew 2010 ( soon to be plebe-no more!)</p>
<p>Hi Ana -
Good thing both of our boys from SC got in - because either of their dreams would’ve been crushed if it hadn’t happened! Funny how they/we were having such similar experiences just around the corner from eachother & didn’t even know!
Hope we see you at Herndon! (10 days! You must be going really early!).
Talk to you soon! -BZ/CS</p>
<p>Hey Chris- We really should get together :-). Whoops I counted wrong, I’m a week ahead. Actually I just checked the clocks and its 17 days 17 hrs. So that means I have 14 days before we go.We have DH retiring this week and that is another story. Hope to see you at Herndon!
Congratulations to all 2011 plebes to be! And to the parents that have given them and will continue to give them support always.</p>
<p>Hello parents, I apologize for tainting this thread with my 12th grade hands. I’ve been appointed to the Academy for the Class of 2012, but I’m still not sure if I’m going. I’m deeply enmeshed in relationships with my family, friends, and civic culture (San Francisco Bay Area/Northern California). I have the option of attending a respectable civilian college 2 hours (by train/public transportation) from my house, and doing ROTC. I still have all four grandparents (but the clock is ticking of course)-three in that immediate area, and a clan of elders, uncles, aunties, cousins, and friends who are like brothers.</p>
<p>But I’m also an only child. My Mom is fighting her own emotions, my Dad has always been the stable force in my life, and they’re both afraid for me to change too much.</p>
<p>There’s also the possibility that I will not appreciate Persian, Thai, Ethiopian, Indian food after months of processed federally supplied grub.</p>
<p>This, along with not being able to practice the piano, is among various petty concerns. But loosing my family is the biggest one.</p>
<p>Any words of solace, warning, or advice from you USNA parents?</p>
<p>What a tremendously thoughtful post. The admissions committee, clearly saw something special that is coming out in your writing.</p>
<p>Family is family, and in the Navy it is hugely important to your success. You’re not going to be any less close to those who care about you because you are on the other side of the country. The letters and emails will tie you together and will make the tough times more bearable.</p>
<p>I think the question to ask yourself, is whether you beleive that thinking about your family will end up being a distraction from you succeeding at the Academy. It will either be your great strength or your great weakness. </p>
<p>That’s what you have to decide.</p>
<p>As for practicing the piano, there’s one in the hall on the 8th wing side of Mitscher. Mids have free use of it, and I rather enjoy the music as I’m leaving for class.</p>
<p>2011mom&dad-Thank you so much for your kind post! I am feeling so much better now than my earlier anxious post reflected. I definitely had a few weeks of “freaking out” when our son received his appointment but, since then, God has definitely given me tremendous peace about it all. Our son has felt for a long time that the Naval Academy was where God was leading him. On top of that, my prayer for all of my children has always been that they go out from our home and make a very positive difference in this world. God made it clear to me that this was the perfect opportunity for Damon to do just that!
Thank you again for your kind words! They are much appreciated!</p>
<p>Zackaw… Class of 2012?? Did you mean 2011?</p>
<p>Anyway… Countdown is back after being away for a few days… I believe it is 57 days until I-Day!!!</p>
<p>56 days to go!</p>
<p>OMgosh. I cannot believe it’s 56 days. Tomorrow is double nickles. :(</p>
<p>double nickles…and one-aught’s last two weeks of plebedom!</p>
<p>Double-nickles! 
yes indeed… 55 days to go</p>
<p>Does double-nickles have ameaning other than that it has two fives and I’m just unaware of it? lol</p>