<p>Okay Plebe-to-be parents! Get those magnifying glasses out now so you’ll be ready to go when those Plebe Summer pictures start coming over the computer. Then you’ll be playing ‘Where’s Waldo’, trying to find your Mid in the sea of Mids in the same uniform, without hair (boys) and those wonderful BCG’s. </p>
<p>I find a picture of ‘my Mid’ over his Plebe Summer, printed in out and proudly put it on the fridge. When Boy came home for Thanksgiving, he asked who the dude on the fridge was. “It’s you” I replied excitingly. After giving me a ‘my mom is psycho look’, he said, 'No, it’s not". </p>
<p>For 6 months, I’d been showing my friends the picture of ‘my son’ in his whiteworks~<br>
SMILE!!! :o</p>
<p>I think I deserve a prize–after looking at 300+ pics a day during Plebe Summer, I only had TWO that were not my kid! Of course it helped being the 2nd tallest girl plebe–with the wildest hair…that played the cymbals…</p>
<p>I can’t tell you how many kids we adopted over the summer, swearing it was our own…
so many that the thorpedo got annoyed… “you meant to tell me you don’t even know who your own kid is? I haven’t been gone that long…”… :eek:</p>
<p>so if you find yourself in a jam, just use the routine response:
“I knew this perscription was no good anymore… damm these glasses!!!”</p>
<p>Good one 2010! The one thing are Mid was afraid of was that we were going to turn his room into something else… he’s watched too many commercials I guess</p>
<p>Our S is more nervous that we’ll move entirely, and he won’t know where… He should realize that his older sister’s room is still open/available, and we haven’t rented it out yet…although it is tempting…</p>
<p>I am excited to start looking through those pics! But, I am fearing that my mid will look very ordinary with no hair and wide open mouth yelling his responses… Should be an interesting summer for us, too, I guess.</p>
<p>“Should be an interesting summer for us, too, I guess.”
You have no idea! :D</p>
<p>As in our Christmas letter: “Much of the summer for B- and me was spent pouring over the daily photos looking for a glimpse of S- which was made all the more difficult as one Plebe pretty much looks like the next.”</p>
<p>Most of my co-workers would show up in my office about 4pm wanting to see the days pics. There would be four or five of us arguing if it was him or not.</p>
<p>My parents sent me at least half a dozen pictures of “me” during beast. My grandparents got a framed copy of what turned out to be a guy in my chemistry class.</p>
<p>Parents, don’t be surprised if you can’t find you own child amongst all those guys and gals in the whites. We thought having a half Korean child will be an easy way to distinguish him , well—wrong!!! Since we live only 15 miles from the yard we visited many times hiding behind the bushes(so to speak), with very little actual sightings of the boy. But it was a lots of fun for our family and at least half our Zoom-lens shots were of Him !</p>
<p>The nice thing about the Merchant Marine Academy was the small class size. They posted the pictures by company so you only had to find your kid amongst the other 60 or so in that company. Have a whole bunch of pictures from indoc and they were all my kid. One was a really nice one of him by himself under a tree on the second day. I made it the wallpaper on my computer at work for a very long time.</p>
<p>Where’s the challenge in that? I’m still not convinced that two of the Thorton shots that they labeled as my mid really were!</p>
<p>I just called some friends with a youngster at USMMA–he’s headed back to Japan on his container ship. I’m sure they are wishing for some sightings! (he’s easy to spot at least–his ears stick out!)</p>
<p>What was fun was seeing the Plebe Summer video at the Reaffirmation Ceremony and then seeing the Plebe Year video at Plebe Recognition. By Plebe Recognition, we actually could identify our Mid and others that we’d met over the course of Plebe year. Both of those will cause you to get out those hankies</p>
<p>My S is a plebe so haven’t experienced sea year yet. Am trying not to think about it too much as he will leave in November and I don’t imagine he will make it home for Christmas. We live to far away for long weekends, hope to make one football game (he plays defense) and hopefully pick him out on the webcast games. I would imagine any communication will be a great thing indeed, guess they won’t follow them around aboard ship and post their pictures daily (what a shame, sniff, sniff).</p>
:D</p>
!</p>
I’m still not convinced that two of the Thorton shots that they labeled as my mid really were!</p>