One month away

Today it's actually exactly one month away from when we will either drop him off at the recruiters or at the MEPS station, depending on what he prefers - we haven't talked about that yet. Of course this date will only remain intact if he can stop hurting himself like he did last Friday when he rolled his ankle off a curb and almost broke it - luckily he did not and it's healing quite nicely, even if it does have all the colors possible ;)
So anyway, the time has come for him to start packing up his room, to decide what he might want to keep for later on or what he wants to get rid of because he won't ever use it again. Time has come to think about him only being home for the occasional vacation or holiday. Time has come to realize that this is real, and I'm not talking about him leaving the nest, all children do eventually and I've never been a mother to cling on to her child to hard. I've let him go before, but somehow that was different. Although it was during an incredibly tough time I didn't try to talk him out of moving back to Michigan, I figured he'd be back within a couple for month. He wasn't and even though things were then very hard for him in Michigan I didn't try to talk him into coming back either and sure enough, 10 months later he did move back.
This time he will move out and be out for a signed up 6 years if all goes well, and of course we hope that all goes well, and after those 6 years he'll either continue with the Army or he'll be moving lord knows where, he'll be 27 then and possibly have his own family by then. 

And it's not just that he's moving out, again - I do know how to let go, I had to do it enough throughout my life. It's more about where he's going that's making me worry. Oh not so much the first few month, I know he'll do fine through BCT and school, but what about after that? I will have to learn to let those thoughts go and just see this as the new part of his life that it is, with all the risks and growth it entails. I'm sure I will have good and bad days and I'm hoping to hear as much from his as possible, it'll help to know how he's doing.

One month away......so many things to take care of beforehand, to say, to do, to organize......so little time really.