In My Own Words

I went to the post office on my way home from work this afternoon. I had one rather large, heavy-ish box that was going parcel post  Space Available, and four Priority Large Flat Rate Boxes ready to go, but since I wasn’t sure how much the large box was going to cost, I took it [...]

Jack is over at Paul’s house chopping up a black walnut tree for firewood, and I’m here at home working on care packages.  I think it’s a wonderful way to start a brand new year; hopefully the recipients will think it’s not too shabby, too. LOL! I’ve already got one box filled up, the customs [...]

Christmas is behind us now, and between donations of items from some folks at work and raising $600 through my “Help Raise Dough for the Troops” efforts, I managed to mail off 17 Christmas-specific care packages to Warriors in Iraq and Afghanistan. (That equals $203.15 in postage, using the large flat rate boxes.) I’ve also [...]

It’s Christmas Eve at my house, but in the sandbox and the ‘Stan, it’s Christmas Day. I wish our troops were all back home with their families, as I’m sure they wish the same even more than I do! I was chatting with one of our Warriors over there, when in mid-conversation he said “Mortars [...]

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 [...]

It’s been three days since I’ve posted an entry here, but there’s not much news to tell, so you haven’t really missed anything. The welcome page on my site broke last week…the entire bottom of the page just vanished. Shawn rebuilt it for me the same day, but the counter had to start all over [...]

Well, a dose of love and appreciation, for one thing.  Guardian Angel cards to be distributed among the group. Hugs in the “empty spaces.”  Magazines, books, stationery for the troops to write home on.  Sewing kits, safety pins, coat hangers, magnets to hang pictures on metal walls of CHU’s, decent toilet paper, air fresheners…anything our [...]