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Comment by mikes mom on December 7, 2009 at 4:17pm

Uli,
My daughter's husband and my son are both stationed at Camp Lejeune ! You're going there ?
good job ! You are going to have a wonderful Christmas being able to host. I wished my son was able to go to someones home for dinner if he couldn't be with his family. You are very lucky ! Thank you from all mom's

Comment by TexasDocMom on December 7, 2009 at 11:13am

I went to bed! Sharon, that will be tough with both kids gone, at least when my son is gone, my daughter and grandkids are close by, altho older grandkids are not near as snuggley as little ones can be...but handy, my granddaughter and that sweet boyfriend brought the folding chairs and things back from my daughter's home yesterday and he put everything up! I think I'll tell my son to let him hold GD's hand now. ( ha!)
Ruthella, all we can be is steadfast in loving our kids We can't change who they will meet, fall for and listen to...even when what they are hearing is a load of crap. We can just keep on being ourselves, and let me say, when that son of yours walks thru your door, he knows he's home, and he's loved and needed. That doesn't change, he's just learning how darn lucky he is to have a good family. He'll tell you sometime in some way.

I know I'm the biggest pusher of foxsox.com in the world, they should pay me! but yesterday when my son was leaving to go back to San Antonio, he took a lamp, and I told him to put the bulb in a sock. He brought out a pair of those socks! They are so soft, I can't believe it...I dimly remember checking out a pair way back when I first bought some and had them mailed here, but these have been washed many times and still soft as silk! He told me that in all this time since wearing these he has had only one blister, and that was from the rub of the boot on the side of his leg, not on the foot itself. I'm buying some for me for catering. He also said they wick the moisture away from the foot, while it does stink up the boot, the foot itself is dry and healthier. Do you think Baking soda would help the boot odor?

Comment by Sharon P.M. on December 7, 2009 at 9:59am

Carol - you said it perfectly - they do breath life into our quiet homes! My oldest heads back to Alabama today and Devin will be heading out on Sunday, this will be my first Christmas with both of them away from home, trying to be upbeat and enjoying every minute with them, will probably need a reminding from y'all in a week or so just how lucky I am to have had them home! :0)

Comment by mikes mom on December 7, 2009 at 2:36am

My son is on his first deployment to Afgahnistan :( Our family keeps sending him boxes of goodies ( always enough to share ) and letters always. he said he will be home for the fourth the of July so my idea we will have Christmas in July also his Birthday is in Feb. so out comes the b-day party then too,
My son has been out of the house and living away from home for the past three years holidays are still not the same without all of your loved ones.
So all you mom and dads how do we do it when they are deployed soooo far away and knowing their holiday is so different from what they are use to having.
All I can say is "I Love You Mike"

Comment by TexasDocMom on December 7, 2009 at 2:31am

I cannot believe you are all still up! My son has been home every Christmas for the 5 years so far, but that's basically the only time home, those two weeks. last year deployment was postponed for a month so he drove his car home and was here a few days in March, I loved that best. No holiday stress, or relatives, just home and supper and dogs and his friends...like back in the "day" before enlisting, very relaxed. That home visit was the one that got to me when he had to leave that time.
I was on myspace for his deployment and he loved the photos of the back yard. Yes the one he complained about cutting, the compost pile he has to turn (and is again now he's close by!), the flowers, the dogs, the loquat tree, the pecan trees...home pictures. He could just go there to look whenever he felt like it. We made a photo album, one for 5x7's and a smaller one that fit in his pocket for patrol. I saw them the other day, looked well worn. That got to me too. Made a short video of walking the dog, flashing the camera up on houses, talking about each neighbor, who painted the house, who was sick, whose dog had puppies....and all of them with flags. He noticed that. I didn't have to tell him they were for him and his best friend across the street in the Marines then.

Yeah, those words "I miss you" can be too tough, they know anyway, don't they?

Comment by TexasDocMom on December 6, 2009 at 7:13pm

Gloria, I asked my son if he knew any stationed near the game site and he did not, but he agrees with you that it should be Navy in those seats. Carol's idea is a good one about Adopt a Sailor.

Last night my daughter and my SIL (former Army Ranger Gulf War vet) had a Christmas party. My granddaughter (17) was there, of course with boyfriend. First time boyfriend met Uncle (my son)....so the Texas game is on upstairs...there sits Uncle in a chair, boyfriend on the couch, granddaughter next to boy friend, and other friends on the couch. Boyfriend did not hold hand, put arm around or in way touch Granddaughter, not once. I went up there a couple of times, his hands remained in sight on his legs and lap. Always. I asked my son today what he thought about boyfriend..."nice kid, thinking about the miltary, told him to get some college first..." and..."when I shook his hand, I just gave it a 'little' squeese...just so he knows I'm watchin my niece..." HA!! I cracked up...that poor kid, big ol Uncle sitting in the chair next to him for 3 hours of the game!

Comment by TexasDocMom on December 5, 2009 at 1:21pm

Gloria, post about those tickets in a blog here, or maybe go to that area's mom's group? maybe there will be sailors home for Christmas in time for that game. As a Navy brat, I totally support having sailors in those seats!

But I bet at Walter Reed there are Navy folks, and corpsmen working there as well as family members of injured sailors etc. It's like that in San Antonio at the "Army" hospitals there! I know two sailors there in SA that would jump on those tickets if they were local!!

Good thoughts to those with sailors home and sailors leaving again, and hug them all for me please! My son asks how many hugs for the Navy moms until I'm done...and I say it's what he gets for being stationed so close by...Navy mom hugs. We are blessed and I wish it for all of you at some point. Does drive the dog crazy tho, she gets used to his face and then he leaves for a week...she sleeps on his bed for a couple of nights and then comes home to mom's...then he comes in again and the fickle little twit is his best friend again!

Comment by Sharon P.M. on December 4, 2009 at 2:13pm

Happy to report the man cubs made it home the other day with no new ink! Of course it is raining cats and dogs here today so one never knows what they will get into! LOL

Comment by Sharon P.M. on December 2, 2009 at 3:56pm

Devin is the slick one about laundry, he'll put it in the washer and then even put it in the dryer but then he "forgets" all about it and I get to fold it and put it all away! Steven has literally been spotted picking up a shirt from the floor and sniffing it to determine if it's wearable or not! He has no clue what a hanger is or heaven forbid a dresser drawer! LOL

Comment by TexasDocMom on December 2, 2009 at 2:53pm

Sharon, now that my son is settling in to San Antonio...where he is responsible for buying the washer/dryer...he comes home to Austin with a laundry basket of clothes..dirty! He has a walk in closet at the apartment, I'd be afraid to see it! he's going to buy the washer/dryer but I bet I still see those clothes come home occasionally.

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