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Christmas on the USS INGRAHAM

Moms are you ready to start Christmas shopping????

Our adoption for October is the USS Ingraham. There are 201 sailors serving aboard this frigate -

191 males and 10 females (all officers). As we all know it is very difficult to be away from your family during the holidays so after speaking with our contact we have decided to brighten up these sailors holidays by helping them celebrate Christmas.

We can send Christmas decorations such as small trees, battery powered lights and wall decorations.

I would like to see each of them receive a small stocking (6") filled with candy or small items and a candy cane for Christmas morning in addition to our other packages. What do you ladies think?

They requested very few things but could use sunscreen and lip balm since the weather is hot where they are deployed. Microwavable meals would be a big hit with the crew also. Most of them are into games, movies and sports and could use some new items to pass around.

The Captain is onboard with anything that will boost the morale on her ship and they are grateful for the support from home and will appreciate anything we do for them. They enjoy seeing the smiles on the faces of the sailors when they receive mail and care packages from home.

Since this is a small group could we get enough of the small Priority boxes filled so that every sailor onboard would have a box to open for Christmas plus a pillowcase and a Christmas card?

Okay moms what fabulous ideas do you have to help the USS Ingraham celebrate Christmas this year?

191 Males

10 Females

Check in with Nancy on We Stitch Love if you can help out with the pillowcases.

Pillowcase count - females 10 DONE

males 191 - we have 191 DONE

Our count as of 10/13

Nancy - stocking for the Captain

Molly - stocking for our POC

Molly - 2 energy drinks for each sailor

Susan - Christmas stories

Small Stockings - Total needed 201

Great job Pam we have enough stockings for everyone on board!

Pam - 200+ MAILED

Small boxes - We need 201

We have 201!!!!!!!!!

Molly - 16 plus POC stocking, energy drinks and Pop chips- mailed

Evi - 8 plus decorations mailed

Kim - 10 plus snacks, suncscreen & lip balm mailed

Pam (GM Mom) - 24 mailed

Nancy - 8 mailed

Chowchow - 16 plus cards mailed

Pat L - 24 mailed

Susan - 8 mailed

Julie - 8 plus cards & decorations mailed

Laura - 12 mailed

mominPA - 8

Kat - 14 mailed

mombyheart - Homemade cards mailed

Proud Navy/NYPD - 1 female mailed

Matt's Mom - 9 female plus two boxes of decorations and a gingerbread train kit mailed

Packing Party in San Antonio - 35 mailed

Diane - 10 boxes of treats

I know several of us have bought items to ship but not sure how many small boxes it will work out to be so I will change the numbers as we pack them up.

We have several moms sending blank Christmas cards for the sailors to send to their families and several that will be sending Christmas decorations.

The shipping dates will be October 21 - 26 and the address is posted in MAS We Ship Love and mark the boxes "Christmas" or we could write "Don't Open Until Christmas".

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Permalink Reply by Proud Navy/NYPD Mom (Donna) on October 29, 2011 at 11:24am

Congratulations Matt's Mom (Cheryl)!!! Wonderful job! I am just so, so glad everyone gets a gift box. And, so proud of the job you did rallying all of us. Thank you. And, congratulations again!

Permalink Reply by Matt's Mom/Cathy on October 29, 2011 at 2:02pm

You ladies are so wonderful! I can't wait for the boxes to start showing up. These are the gifts that we wrapped at our packing party along with some other shots of the event that I thought you all would enjoy seeing.

Permalink Reply by Matt's Mom/Cathy on October 29, 2011 at 2:05pm

We had a total of 26 people that attended the dinner and packing party.

Permalink Reply by diane {Shawns mom} on October 29, 2011 at 3:54pm

wonderful! awesome pics....

You can include 10 more large

boxes for the Ingraham. boxes are filled with TREATS/T-SHIRTS/SHOWER SHOES...

...never can get too MUCH at Christmas! YAH!

Merry Christmas USS Ingraham!

Permalink Reply by Matt's Mom/Cathy on October 29, 2011 at 8:11pm

Thanks Diane! They are going to have a great Christmas!

Permalink Reply by Matt's Mom/Cathy on October 29, 2011 at 8:16pm

This is who I don't have marked as having already mailed their package(s). If I just failed to mark you done please let me know. Thanks!

Nancy

Susan

mominPA

Proud Navy/NYPD

Packing Party boxes

Me (Matt's Mom)

Permalink Reply by Proud Navy/NYPD Mom (Donna) on October 29, 2011 at 10:28pm

My box is going on Wednesday. It has the one remaining female box, pc's, and lots and lots of unused cards for the sailors. I have a group of women who are bringing me some more cards so I decided to wait one more day to get them in too.

Permalink Reply by Matt's Mom/Cathy on October 30, 2011 at 12:33am

Thanks for letting me know. I just wanted to double check with everyone and make sure that I noted all of the boxes that had been mailed so far.

Permalink Reply by Molly Molly Fo Folly on October 30, 2011 at 11:33am