In My Own Words

Sometimes I feel like I’m chasing my tail and I just can’t catch it. I guess that’s why time seems to be flying by. This time next week I will be winding up three days of baking bread and cookies, getting things ready for the big “Raise Dough for the Troops” bake sale and praying [...]

You may ask “What does making memories with the Grandkids have to do with supporting our troops?” Well, if you read on, you will see just exactly what I mean. We have several Warriors who enjoy homemade cookies. I haven’t had the wherewithal to send much lately, nor to bake cookies in any quantity at [...]

We all know what “snail mail” is. I have a theory that there are two snails that work for the postal service. There’s Zippy the Super Snail – a fast, efficient deliverer of letters and packages; yessir, Zippy moves like greased lightning and wastes no time delivering his share of the mail. Then there’s his [...]

I am nearly overwhelmed at the response to my request for items to include in Christmas care packages for our troops. I have been doing this for five years, and every year I start requesting items in October. At most, I manage to get enough donations to fill three or four large flat rate boxes. [...]

It has been a crazy past couple of weeks, but I’m getting back on an even keel and into the swing of things once again. For six months I followed Sis’s postings on facebook of the ups and downs Nafe went through before he finally lost the fight, and I shared those postings with my [...]

It happens to us all. You know what I’m talking about…life’s sailing along relatively smoothly, you get complacent and take it for granted that all is right with your world, all things considered. Then out of the blue – WHAM! – your little corner of the world isn’t so smooth sailing at all. This has [...]

Every once in a rare while, I get to chat with one of our troops via Yahoo! Instant Messenger, or GoogleTalk. One of our guys who is in Afghanistan was on for a bit this morning, and since I am getting ready to pack some boxes this week I asked him if there is anything [...]

Saturday afternoon, after Savanna’s 5th birthday party, Jack and I went to Sam’s Club to pick up a few things. As we always do when I’ve got money to spend on our Warriors, he got a cart for household stuff, and I got one for Soldier stuff, then it was off to the races… LOL! [...]

The “busy week” turned out quite well once all was said and done. I was up late Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday nights baking bread and cookies for Raise Dough for the Troops, so I was a little tired by the end of each day of the sale. The first day I made $47, the second [...]

Wow, I was filling out the customs forms for three packages I’ve got ready to go in the mail, and since they’re going out tomorrow I put tomorrow’s date on the signature line – 06/01/2010. It hardly seems possible, but there it is, in black and white. Proof positive that sometimes time flies even when [...]