tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306552982930620784.post6818896344965068952..comments2022-10-29T05:07:39.045-07:00Comments on Callie's Mariner: the kidcalliesmarinerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02927753180705389633noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306552982930620784.post-36301363320935144172013-05-29T19:37:20.973-07:002013-05-29T19:37:20.973-07:00Thank you, HisMermaid! And thank you for posting,...Thank you, HisMermaid! And thank you for posting, more people need to hear those types of things from someone who's been there and made it through! I think the best part is that your children realized just how significant you were in their upbringing, it's beautiful that they recognize that. Reading that made me think of the two or three times I gave my mom a Father's Day card. I'd forgotten that, thanks for reminding me!calliesmarinerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02927753180705389633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306552982930620784.post-60980142561170363212013-05-29T18:36:25.339-07:002013-05-29T18:36:25.339-07:00I really enjoyed this post! You hit the nail on t...I really enjoyed this post! You hit the nail on the head. As a merchant marine wife and mother of two, this is the example I led my children by. They never saw my sadness when he left. They never saw the anger when the washing machine broke the minute he boarded the ship for his next tour. They never saw the frustration when my mariner was delayed coming home for his vacation. I was a stay-at-home mom because I believed having one parent gone half of your life was enough. When dad wasn't home for the 'donuts for dad' breakfast at school...guess who was the only mom in the classroom that morning? Our children are 25 and 20 now. They were raised with the attitude that this was 'normal' for us and they didn't give it a second thought. I was paid a huge compliment from my son a couple of years ago. He told me, "You've been the mom and the dad. When dad couldn't be at an event, you were there." It meant a lot to me that he noticed. HisMermaidnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306552982930620784.post-8245040922698294902013-04-23T20:11:58.630-07:002013-04-23T20:11:58.630-07:00It's definitely a hard pill to swallow sometim...It's definitely a hard pill to swallow sometimes, but I think some of those difficulties prepared me for life at an earlier age. Don't know if that was good or bad, but I'll take it!calliesmarinerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02927753180705389633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306552982930620784.post-47180514195076696142013-04-23T10:57:19.680-07:002013-04-23T10:57:19.680-07:00Great post! We don't have little kids together...Great post! We don't have little kids together, my son was in college before my captain took a job that kept him away for such a long time, before that he worked in the local harbor and hardly ever had a long assignment. I don't know if I could do it with little ones, it would be very hard. The worst thing he's missed (other than birthdays, anniversaries, etc.) was my son's Phd commencement from Yale last year. We had a real talk about it, all of us, but hubs was scheduled to go on a giant assignment to Singapore, Korea, and Russia. It was horrible missing that special day, I think he still feels bad about it, and I think my son was very understanding but that's a once in a lifetime event. I travelled back to CT with my son's biodad and we were there, but something was definitely missing. That's the one thing I'm still really upset about and regret a lot.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com