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 [...]

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! [...]

Santa Needs Help In order to assure that Christmas packages get to our Warriors on time, it’s critical to get them in the mail before Thanksgiving.  I appreciate any and all help in raising troop morale over the holidays.

We’ve been supporting our troops long enough now that we’re finding ourselves with quite a number of “repeaters.” I was going through the contact updates on AnySoldier, not that we need another to support at the moment, when I found a name I recognized as a Soldier we adopted in 2007 when he was deployed [...]

Wow, my idea for raising dough for the troops is really going great. Jennifer texted me this morning bright and early with an order for four dozen white dinner rolls, which I am working on as we speak. Then she texted me this evening with an order to be delivered on Friday – two dozen [...]

So far I’ve had good results from the “Raise Dough for the Troops” project. Yesterday I started out with 12 loaves of bread, 5 of which were pre-ordered, and at the end of the day I had 3 left. Now, the end of my day is 2:30, and the office doesn’t close until 4:00, so [...]

Well, I have $40 left in my Troop Support Account, and there were a few items I wanted to pick up at Sam’s today while we were picking up honey, bread flour, and a few other items we needed at the house. Mainly I wanted a tub of Atomic Fireball jawbreakers; go figure, our guys [...]

My friend and fellow troop supporter “Maddog” gave me a heads up on a Warrior who posted that his Troops are in dire need of a morale boost. They’re not too far from re-deploying (going home, in civilian speak), but they’ve been through a lot and they’ve really been down. Being a good leader, Sgt. [...]

Well, here it is payday again, so once again I have $40 at my disposal to spend on our Warriors. I’ve still got “stuff” at the house, and I had $20 and change in the Troop Support Checking Account thanks to a donation from some kind folks who visited my site one day last week. [...]