[linn65]

I have not been to the WJ campus yet, but I am hoping too soon!! My son told me that it was better this way anyway...He said Mom this way when you come I will know where things are and be able to show you around better. He knew how hard it was for me not being the one going!! He played AAU in highschool, and his junior year we were going 9 weekends in a row in a gym! I was the one that took him and his Dad worked, but he did pay for us to go because I could not have afforded all of those games/food/hotels.

When he went this summer which thank God he did! Because after being there 24 hours he was texting me and telling me he hated it and wanted to come home. My heart dropped and thought oh boy this is too soon for that too happen. The scholarship he got was 40 grand and he will get 3 meals a day during the week, and 2 a day on the weekends (he said the food was great). Well, I had to give every positive, encouraging word I could think of to keep him in school. Without just telling him okay you can come home. Because you and I both know later in life he would regret that more than anything.

For the first whole week he wanted to come home! He had no friends, had never been 7 hours away from home knowing he was not coming home, in a place he had never been. Finally, after he went to an open gym, talked to the coach he was feeling better!! Than he was okay, and started to adjust being independent!! Three weeks later he acutally CALLED ME not just text and talked my head off for about an hour. Oh that was the best day ever just hearing his voice and what he was doing day to day.

It sounds like we both love are kids a WHOLE LOT!! To bad they don't live in the same area they could meet and maybe date...haha. He is going to get his degree in business!!