Downdog, you must be so proud of your daughter!!
She sounds great...I know how you are feeling though...my oldest daughter is married to a Naval Officer and they are stationed in Washington state...thousands of miles from me...i miss being able to see her every day...is there a chance your daughter might get stationed somewhere near you after Bootcamp?

Debshines..your daughter sounds very ambitious and is such a go getter...hopefuly she will change her mind about leaving Australia...but even if she does go to England...chances are she will find that "there's no place like home" and return to you...

Dotsie, yes..my daughter brings her friends home for dinner at least once a week...unless I am down at the beach...then she brings them to the beach for the whole weekend!!! But it's been so much fun for me...this is her final year in college..and I want to savor every last minute of it...I can't believe how fast my kids grew up...now I wish I would have had a few more...