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Comment by Jakesmom on November 30, 2013 at 11:50am

Hi Charlotte(ship02Div930) Thanks for the Welcome.  My son has only been in Guam since August.  His dad travels a lot and so he has gotten to see him and will probably be seeing him again in February..I am so jealous :)  

How long has your child been in Guam and what do they do there?

Comment by Charlotte(ship02Div930) on November 30, 2013 at 11:37am

Welcome Jakesmom! How long has your sailor been in Guam?

ktssong, I am sorry you were a little down on Thanksgiving. It is hard to sit around and see everyone with their whole family there and you feel like a part of your heart is missing. I know the feeling. But it sounds like you had some great distractions with grandkids!

How did everyone else's day go? My sailor got together with some friends so that made me feel better that he wasn't alone. I have not done the cake in a jar but I did send him a package that he got the day before Thanksgiving! Whew!

Take care!

Comment by ktssong on November 30, 2013 at 1:33am

I wish I had an answer for your Kathleeng.  I've never made them either so I don't know if regualr ones will work.  I don't see why they wouldn't but it would be harder to get cake out is the only thing.  They would come out in smaller pieces.  I made Rice Krispie treats with my daughter to day to send two more boxes.   Also , this is early Saturday morning for us.  I'm going to do work around the home today but Thursday was rough.  I thought I was ok with everything but my emotions were otherwise.  I was a little down and knew why but I felt it alot stronger than I anticipated.  I thought my entire family would be enough distraction for me but it wasn't.  I missed my son alot.  Since he's been in the Navy this is the second time in our family that we've ever not had everyone come to holiday celebration.  They are more difficult.  I didn't cry but I just didn't feel my chipper self.  Oh well.  We managed and I had the grandkids that night and all today and now I'm wore out.  We did a video for him and I was going to upload it onto his page and don't you know it, I left my phone somewhere today so now tomorrow even though I wanted to stay home and relax, I have to take care of phone issues.  Oh well....it will be ok.  I hope everyone else had a nice Thanksgiving.  

Comment by Jakesmom on November 29, 2013 at 8:56pm

Hi Ladies!  Thanks for the Invite.  My son is a Corpsman stationed at the Naval Hospital and works in the E.R.  He seems to like Guam and the group that he works with.

Comment by ktssong on November 25, 2013 at 12:44am

Got a really bad sweet tooth reading all these baking tips.   Anyway, heard from my son last night.  Had a long call.  It was good to talk and laugh with each other.  His box is leaving tomorrow.  I still need to finish it up.  His 2nd wedding anniversary is the day before Thanksgiving.  He tries really hard to be a good husband even in the separations.  He calls her everyday.  He sends her messages and for her present he made an appointment for her to go to a salon for a massage, pedicure, manicure, and hair appointment and he set the appointment up for this coming weekend.  He makes me happy to see him be an attentive husband....To me it's amazing to watch soldiers that have so much on their plate to take others in consideration even beyond the service they are doing....They are all certainly a special breed, always taking care of everyone.  

I said to him, did  you get your funny T-Shirt I sent you, thinking by now he would have and he said, "what funny t-shirt"....It was supposed to be a surprise to cheer him up.  Ha we both got a good chuckle out of that.  That was just as nice as sending a surprise so I'm ok with that.  

Looking forward to his call on Thanksgiving Day.  Love to All...God Bless.

Comment by Regina on November 24, 2013 at 5:24am

Thank you Rhonda.

Comment by Rhonda on November 23, 2013 at 1:38pm

Regina the cakes & breads baked in jars & vacuum sealed can be kept on a shelf. They don't need to be frozen. If you sterilize your jar's they will be good for one year.

Comment by Cindy on November 23, 2013 at 10:34am

After getting out my canning book, anything with meat needs to be canned in a pressure cooker per instructions. So the water bath technique would not be safe for this. Water bath is just sealing your jars in boiling water covering your jars for the amount of time suggested for what is being canned. I am pressure cooking  this morning  the chili for my son, just sending him 2 pints and keeping one here to try in a couple of weeks to make sure they are fine. I will give you guys feedback in a couple of weeks after he gets his and we try the one we keep here. I told him about it last night and he sounded excited-this is one of his favorite dishes I make.

Comment by Regina on November 23, 2013 at 8:29am

This baking in a jar sounds great.  I am a baker and have never heard of make cakes and bread in a jar, but my son loves banana and pumpkin bread so I am going to try this tomorrow, to put in the mail on Monday. For people who have done this, when my son gets his bread, should he put it in the freezer or just in the cupboard?

Comment by Cindy on November 22, 2013 at 10:58am

This has got me thinking- my son loves my red pork chili- What do you guys think of making some then sealing it in and giving it a 20 min hot bath just like I do my tomatoes and rotel when I can every year. He would love a jar of this, I can't think of a reason this would not work. I assume that flour tortillas would be available there to have with them, maybe I could find some with a long outdate that are OK at room temp. 

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