Blue Candle Lighting

In several groups we have discussed lighting a blue candle on Christmas Day and Holidays to remember the sailors,recruits and military who are not coming home.. Admin asked us to keep track of how many candles are lighting.. Please respond and the count will be automatic,. The sailors who are home please light the blue candle and let them know.. Here or Not they are always brightly shining at each of our tables. My candle says. Thoughts of you are gently wrapped in lttle prayers...
Your candle can say anything. Send to the groups you each belong to and please rsvp to this invite so the count can be kept track of easier. rsvp and state where you are from please....Event Extended through New Years Day... Thankyou

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Comment by Alicia Texas mother of Chris/A blue candle mom on January 1, 2009 at 10:01pm

I pray you all had a happy New Year and that you will have a blessed 2009. I look forward to reading and seeing your responses to the 2009 blue Candle event over this upcoming year. I pray you will all will sign on everytime you light your candle and update where why and who you are celebrating and remember ing. We are still the same group just a NEW YEAR....Still the Same Event...Blue Candle Lighting by BLUE CANDLE MOMS....I love you and will see you in the 2009 Event and Home for the Holidays, by the Blue Candle Moms...Hmm if you are reading this know this.... YOU ARE A BLUE CANDLE MOM...see you there. Alicia

Comment by Alicia Texas mother of Chris/A blue candle mom on January 1, 2009 at 9:09pm

This is the final post for Blue Candle Moms for the year 2008, we have begun the year 2009 as of 1 a.m. this morning and the EVENT WAS SUCCESSFUL THIS YEAR...PLEASE JOIN US IN BLUE CANDLE EVENT AND HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS. Word will never express the beauty of this event and the love shared and the candles lit for the honor of our Sailors and the Military... We welcomed many new moms to Navy 4 Moms and this is one event every Navy mom has in common...What to do when they are not coming home for the holidays, a birthday or anyother celebrations..Please remember to post when you light your candles and where you are lighting them from in the events for 2009 and share with Home for the Holiday... We are Blue Candle Navy Moms and proud of our Sailors...Thanks N4M and You we are FAMILY.

Comment by Almost mom-in-law of our sailor on December 31, 2008 at 5:58pm

Our candle is still lit for our sailor, and all the other sailors not able to ring in the New Year at home. God bless them all!

Happy New Year,
Trish

Comment by Kaye S. on December 31, 2008 at 1:36am

We just back home from 9 days of a "whistle-stop" tour of Texas, visiting relatives. We had several Christmases in several cities. At each one, I lit my blue candle for our Sailor who wasn't home and a green candle for our good friend, Lori, who's in Iraq with the Army. All our relatives said special prayers for military personnel everywhere.

I got misty watching my brother light the green candle, since he's Army Reserves and spent 2004 in Afghanistan... he understood. Also, when a Navy-mom friend (who had her Sailor home) told me that her candle was for our son.

Our family has a new tradition for all the holidays to come. Thanks, ks.

Comment by Bonnie/Davey's in the Navy...for life on December 30, 2008 at 6:22pm

I didn't take a picture of my son lighting our candle, but it is one is burning until Jan 1st in his home at the base @ Great Lakes

Comment by Paulette,Rob's Mom on December 30, 2008 at 3:21pm

My sailor was home for christmas,Our blue candle was lit by him for the blessing of having him this year and for the ones that could not be home. This is a awesome tradition and I know we can keep it going.

Comment by Raylene (ray's mom) on December 30, 2008 at 1:48pm

I did not know what the blue candle was and now that I do, I have blue candles at home and I will be burning them. My son goes back to camp pendleton on the jan. 4th and deployes sometime in the next 3 weeks.

Comment by Alicia Texas mother of Chris/A blue candle mom on December 30, 2008 at 12:20pm

By poplular demand the BLUE CANDLES WILL CONTINUE TO BE AN EVENT THROUGHT THE NEXT YEAR...LOOK FOR THE NEW EVENT STARTING ON JAN 2 ,2010, It will continue to be extended to new Moms and us veterans *of the holidays this year* and Blue Candle Moms will be following the Home for the Holidays group that will also continue through out the year... Please look into both groups as we grow and change.... So thaat group will now be called Home for the Holidays by the Blue Candle Moms,,,that means every sailor, every mom will have a unity group to grow with...Wherever our sailors are, whatever their schools are and no matter past present or future service we will all continue to look forward to any "holiday" with our sailor and when they aren't there we will light blue candles for them...I love each and everyone of you.... your sailors past present and future... and I love this group and event .... It was in passing conversation on "New holiday Traditions a discussion in home for the holidays the blue candle took form... one lit candle and we lit the world...Thankyou....AND BLUE CANDLE MOMS YOU ARE AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!

Comment by Brenda Sue on December 30, 2008 at 10:20am

This is a Sailor who was home for the holidays!! He attended our Southeast Texas get together with his mom and dad. (I'll let her post his name if she wants.) He lit a blue candle (for all our Sailors) and a gold candle (for the moms who have lost their children). We had a mom in attendance whose son passed away in August, 2008!! We had one wife (and sister) and baby, two dads, four moms, and two aunts, and of course, our SAILOR in attendance at our impromtu dinner!!!

Comment by Alicia Texas mother of Chris/A blue candle mom on December 29, 2008 at 9:56pm

Yes my sailor left again and yes the blue candles are burning....and will do so... Ladies this has been wonderful and I thankyou for sharing your stories they are beautiful to read.... Thankyou so much.

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