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Comment by Cristina (Robin'sMom) on December 3, 2011 at 2:59pm

Comment by Samantha (DDG 51 Arleigh Burke) on December 3, 2011 at 2:00pm

Well it warmed up this morning. It's now 23 degress...LOL

Comment by diannep on December 3, 2011 at 11:23am

...oh....I should add that we would also take a picture each Christmas of the boys and put it in a cute Christmas dated ornament...so neat to see the boys growing up on the tree....so picture frame ornaments are fun...you can put in a pik of your new sailor in his uniform and it can be the first one on the tree next year!

Comment by diannep on December 3, 2011 at 11:21am

Awesome pik, Lala.  So glad that he loves that! 

You have to have a tree, Sweetlove (aka Mrs. Grinch!)....the smell, the lights, the twinkle!  Start filling it with ornaments that reflect memories of your life together!  Our Christmas tree is a "memory" tree...souvenier ornaments from vacations, graduations (my sailor has a degree in Hospitality/Tourism Mgmt so I got him a little suitcase-on-roller ornament when he graduated!), activites that my kids were in (like baseball), we have have a red jeep ornament, driven by Santa, reflecting my late husband's red jeep, and a red truck ornament with a christmas tree in the bed of it...reflecting my older son's first truck...  It is really neat to do a tree that way...and each year, you reflect on those memories as you decorate.  Since he is in bootcamp this Christmas, you can get an ornament to reflect that....or make one!  It would be a great project for you!  You can take a pik of it and give it to him at PIR.

Hope all have a good weekend!

Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on December 3, 2011 at 10:03am

My son is planning on joining the Navy as an Air Rescue Swimmer. He has been on the Rescue Squad here for more than 2 years and loves it. He just finished his Senior Project and did it on helicopters and how they are used in rescue missions of course tying that into the Navy. Here a pic of him on a training mission being lifted by a cable into a helicopter. I wanted to be there to see it but had to sub that day. After seeing the pics it is probably good that I was at work lol.

Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on December 3, 2011 at 9:47am

Samantha I don't blame you that is way too cold. It was pretty warm here last weekend when Cory put up our lights. It was in the upper 50's so not too bad. I don't know what I will do when he leaves for bootcamp. He takes care of all the outdoor stuff like mowing the grass, trash, recycling, cleaning the cars and of course the lights. I guess my hubs will have to take on most of that stuff poor thing, lol.

Oh Sweetlove, I hope you get bitten by the Christmas bug lol. I love Christmas because I love helping people and we always adopt a family who can't afford to get gifts for their kids and we get gifts for the whole family and food as well. We do this with our kids and they love it. The first year we did it we took them with us to the charity to choose a family and somehow got talked into 3 families. When we told them we couldn't afford 3 families they said to take the money we would have spent on them and use it for the families. So, how could we say no to that? My husband dresses in a Santa Suit and takes the gifts to the families homes :-) Then on our own street he wears the suit and runs up and down the street ringing jingle bells and shouting ho ho ho at midnight lol. He is such a blessing to our family. I hope you can find something that makes Christmas special to you and your husband :-)

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on December 3, 2011 at 7:13am

...and a little OPSEC! (I'll post this for a while in the beginning of a PIR group)

Community Guidelines and OPSEC

Hello Everyone.

Safety for your SR (future Sailor) and you!

Sailors LAST names are NOT allowed anywhere on this site. If your last name is different from your sailors it is still not recommended.

FIRST names ARE allowed but I, and some of the other “veteran” moms, will most often advise you not to use them. This is a public forum and anyone can read the posts-they do not have to be a member (if the group is set to private, the public cannot read but all N4M members can-so all you have to do is join) While they use their last names in BC (in fact they don't usually, if ever, find out each other’s first names until the end of BC), the RDC's know who they are and can then, with the right amount of info, link them up to you. So, let’s say you use your last name in your N4M name, post a picture of your SR...easy to match up...and so on.

Why does that matter? Your SR's are trying to get through BC with as little undue attention as possible. "Fly under the radar", so to speak. There have been reports from moms of their recruits being matched up with them. Some are just identified…some get IT (Intensive Training), I am guessing this depends on WHAT is posted…I know of one mom who said that her son had to do 5 push-ups just for every time she posted!

The MOST important reason for being discreet is OPSEC-Operational Security. This is a way of life for us now. It will be for your Sailors career and for some of them, even more so, depending on their individual security clearance. Some moms have mentioned that even today after years they do not know EXACTLY what their sailor does.

SPECOPS...definitely need to be VERY careful.

Here is a link to the "Community Guidelines" for N4M:

http://www.navyformoms.com/forum/topics/navy-for-moms-n4m-community

 Here is the link for "OPSEC is everyone’s responsibility" specifically:

http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=3342

 Here is a link to the video on OPSEC on this site:

http://www.navyformoms.com/video/opsec-internet-safety

Please take the time to review this information.

Thank You.

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on December 3, 2011 at 6:39am

For your viewing pleasure...LaLa once said I was like an elf leaving presents! So, a vid from one of my fave Christmas movies!

Comment by FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW on December 3, 2011 at 6:38am

Good Morning!

Comment by Samantha (DDG 51 Arleigh Burke) on December 3, 2011 at 1:22am

@LaLa...Haven't made it outside yet...Dang, maybe tomorrow...Too cold here...Only in the teens....Brrrrrrrrr

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