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Fiance in A school and i want to do somthing nice for him help???
my sailor is in A school and i would like to do somthing for him that he would appreciate and never expect due to lack of funds we have never really been able to do much for eachother before he joined the navy and what we did do it always involved being together we always got a movie and a dinner or had a romantic dinner at home but what can i do for him while he is in a school and im at home 8 hrs away?? we arent fighting or anything i just want to do somthing nice for him. any ideas?
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Permalink Reply by NavyWife2013 on
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Great lakes but i wont be able to see him for a while so im trying to figure out somthing to do for him without being with him
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that is a great idea i think ill do that arrange a movie date and he can go with a buddy and i can go with my one of my friends too, and maybe we can watch the same movie and compare afterwords! thanks i will definately talk to him about it thanks
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Permalink Reply by lemonelephant on
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You might check on GM Mom's, Great Lakes A School Q&A, GL A-school moms, Girlfriends, Fiances,and Wives of Sailors, Navy Girlfriends, and/or PROUD NAVY GIRLFRIENDS:) and see if they have any ideas.
Since you mentioned dinner, you could get him gift cards to one or more or the restaurants there. They have McDonald's, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and Subway on the main base. They also have Sam Adams eatery/pub which I've heard is really nice because it's right on the lakeshore with a beautiful view, but I don't know how you'd do a gift card for that unless you did a Visa or Mastercard gift card. You could get a recordable card and record a sweet message (but watch what you say in case someone overhears it) and put the gift card/s in in.
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thats a great idea as well, y didnt i think of these. thank u girls i might do both just at 2 seperate time :)
i also thought about doing a home video so he sees how things are here back home too. thank you both!
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Permalink Reply by Saipan on
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Do you both have Skype and laptops or iPads? You could even have a dinner date, pick a nice restaurant and have dinner together via Skype. Hubby always gets me a massage or some other spa treatment when he wants to do something nice. Will you be able to come visit him soon? Couples massages are always nice too.
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yea i will be up there early febuary, we have skype together but hardley ever use it anymore he always has his room mates in his room so i cant hear him and he has to have a lib buddy to leave the base still, but as soon as he can b on liberty on his own i will definately see if he would be willing to do so he takes his pride way to seriously and gets embarrased way to easily
which makes things hard but will see if he is willing to do so
thanks much
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Oh, no problem, glad to help. We're going to be celebrating our 11th wedding anniversary soon and with him having almost 13 years in the Navy we've spent a LOT of time apart and have had to improvise plenty of times. You'll get used to it, just think of his time at BC and A school as getting you ready for future deployments right? I still remember his first deployment after we had our first born (10.5 now) I carried his seabag for him so he could carry our 5 month old and I just remember him looking so wide-eyed over his daddy's shoulder like he was going, too. He was 1 by the time he came home but I dressed him up in a little sailor suit and thought it looked a little naked so I stuck my Good Conduct ribbon on him at the last minute and then he looked like a real sailor. Maybe one day for him but I don't even want to think about him not being near me!
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Permalink Reply by BunkerQB on
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SaipanSweethearts, you are the real deal. My sailor just got married to a wonderful gal but I am always on the lookout for a wife for my younger son. He is 24. Got any sisters? :)
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Just younger one but she's already married. Sorry :) And, we're also nothing like each other. She is, and I say this in the nicest way so please no one be offended, an Accountant. That's the best way to describe her, as an Accountant. She doesn't have much tolerance for me, only when she eats her Wheaties I guess. In fact, when i went home to visit this summer she, once again, had to bring up how I left our family to join the Navy, yada yada yada. That was 13 years ago and you're still on that??
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Ahhh. I see. My younger son is - well, I say this in the nicest way and I won't be offended if you laugh - is a meandering adventurer at the moment. He is very intelligent, very athletic, musical. He just doesn't like to be bored. IMHO, to succeed in a career, you have to put up with boredom part of the time and at one point or another - you simply grind it out and get the job done. He is getting around to it but it has taken a little bit longer than we had expected. His older brother (former sailor) is one of those extremely focused individuals who will do his research, weighs his options, makes a decision, executes whatever task perfectly. I was going to say it may have to do with birth order but obviously your younger sister doesn't fit this mold.
Younger son has lived in the East Coast, the West Coast, ND and OK. On on breath, he says he is going back to OK to finish his degree in petroleum engineering, then on the next he'll say he is going to be a street musician. He is the cause of all my grey hair. My husband/his father simply states, "When he is totally out of money, he'll come around. Why don't you ask your N4M friends to find him a strong woman w some common sense." LOL. Have to go to bed. Will check in tomorrow - in case you come up with a few possibilities.
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