A good news thread - By this time tomorrow a dream of mine will come true

[The Straight Story]

When I was 30 and my X and I split and up I moved to California, lived in the desert. I missed my three little boys. Driving around Jack's Ranch road many nights I dreamed of a day they would see the desert and the mountains. I would drive round and round thinking about sharing my life with them out west.

Years later I had lost them and had not seen them for a decade. Came back to Ohio. Found them (well my youngest found me) after their mom died. Still have not seen or talked on the phone to my middle son, though we have talked via email and facebook.

My oldest son is at Fort Hood, in the army. My youngest son is there visiting him - and Josh is taking him out to the desert in the morning, they are going to spend the day ghost hunting and eating places like Jack in the Box (which I loved out in CA) Zach has never seen the desert. Josh went out last week and finally saw the desert. He loved it. Now he and his brother get to share that together.

And my middle son - well he met someone and left this morning for California. And sometime tomorrow he will be driving through Amarillo, TX. And he too will see the desert and the mountains.

I am not there with them to experience it all, but finally they will be there and see the things I have seen.

They, and I, grew up here in Ohio and really never left (well, I did, but not until I was 30). Out west was just a dream - mountains and deserts were just something you saw on TV.

Josh is heading to Iraq soon (lest they change his assignment yet again), Zach is heading back into the army (he left boot camp over personal issues last year, honorable discharge, got some counseling and wants to go back), and Nathaniel is going to the west coast.

I dreamed of this day for them, now by some twist of fate all three will be there tomorrow. Wish I could be there sharing it, but I will be there in spirit with them.

Sometime during the afternoon Saturday my boys will all have seen sights I dreamed they someday would.

Someday, before I pass, I hope to be with them all and watch the sun set over the mountains as a tumbleweed rolls by. But for now I will smile and know that one of my dreams came true, even if I was not there to see it.

The boys then:


Now:

Josh:


Nathaniel:


Zach:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear Straight Story...

What a beautiful and poignant story yours is...

Thank you for telling us about your beautiful boys!

I would be proud to have such a trio!

Blessings on them......and on you.


:hug:

[gimama]

2. thank YOU for sharing this story

May the Healing continue & ALL the Happy Dreams of YOU & Your Boys come true.

I posted links for "Ways to TRULY "Support the Troops" "
a few wks ago, that You would be interested in..
it's in my journal, if You'll scroll down to Feb 20-23.

Bless YOU & Your Sons~===]

[Lifelong Protester]

3. I wish you could be there too, but I know your spirit will be with them

and I feel they will know it too.

Hope the BIG dream of all of you being together comes true one day too.:grouphug:

[Sedona]

4. I hope you get to join them there someday

[spanone]

5. k&r