A suburban family on Aquia Creek in Stafford County describes their families transition as the children move into high school and out of the house for the first time.

Thursday, October 26, 2006

All Things Won, Lost and Returned

It has been a hard week for Wil.

We haven't seen Wil since he came home on leave but it's Sunday Oct 8 and Aunty Donna is here! Woo Hoo! We drove to the school after church and picked Wil up for a day pass. He and Aunty Donna get along so well. They really enjoy each others company and laughed a lot together. We went to lunch and then walked aound the mall until it was time to take Wil back to school.

Tuesday Oct 10, looked to be a good day. Wil was given the promotion to laundry corporal and we got to go to FUMA to see Wil play football before Aunty Donna goes home Wed. AM. They lost, Wil lost, all in all it ended as a really hard day. FUMA lost their game and Wil lost his watch. It was taken from his football locker and that just topped off an other wise miserable evening. He spoke to his coaches and his TAC officer to let them know his watch was missing and that he just wanted it back - he didn't care who took it. (Stealing is a dismissal offense)

Wednesday, Maggie and Charlie and I took Aunty Donna to the airport, Wil returned the promotion because it interfered with football and low and behold his watch was mysteriously returned in a toilet paper roll in the back of his football locker.

Things were won, lost and returned. Life's lessons in a nutshell, or toilet paper roll . . .

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