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Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on February 11, 2013 at 10:39am

lol, No he has not, he is huge but he is happy lol. At this point I really don't think it will shorten his life any since he is now 17 years old. He lives a charmed life lol.

Comment by Lancnavymom on February 11, 2013 at 10:30am

Lala and absentminded, what a great idea writing from the family pet. ahahaha. I just did it and when reading it back to myself laughing out loud. My SR will love this. thanks for all the great tips and advice. You ladies rock!

Comment by diannep on February 11, 2013 at 9:19am

Hysterical, Lala.  I can just see her laughing outloud as she read it!  Exactly what so many of them need when in the trials of bootcamp!  Sooo....has the cat now lost weight under your supervision????   :-)

Good Morning All!

Comment by The Absent Minded Housewife on February 11, 2013 at 12:41am

Uh...I wrote a letter from our cat too.  On Wednesday.  Put it up on my blog.  We have two cats, some squirrels we feed outside, and some other quirky family objects that will write letters in the coming weeks. 

Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on February 11, 2013 at 12:32am

I did the letter from our cat, lol she LOVED it!!! Here is what I did....

The letter to my Sailor from our cat was hilarious. Our cat is huge and needs to loose some weight and when our Sailor was home she was in charge of feeding him. She kept the bowl full all the time. I talked to the vet and had "special" food and was measuring out what he could have twice a day. The cat "Shadow" was not happy with his rations and kept going to my Sailors bedroom door begging for food. He searched for her all the time. So maybe write your recruit a letter from the family pet J Here is the letter I sebt….. “Dear Loran, since you left everyone here has gone crazy. They are starving me and they don’t understand my needs. I insist that you talk some sense into them right now. If not you are going to have to come home and take care of this in person. I just can’t take it anymore. It is like they don’t care about me. You are the only one that understands my needs. Why did you leave anyway? I know you think you are all grown up and you need to spread your wings like Charlie (our bird) but why didn’t you take me with you. Is this a financial problem? Do they not have the money to buy my food, because the big guy could use a few less Cheeseburgers if you know what I mean? Please let me know if you are going to take care of this problem. Charlie is looking mighty tasty!!! BTW, I overheard them talking and saying you were at boot camp and I know you LOVE shoes but did you really need to go to camp in a foreign state just to get a pair of boots? They do sell those at the mall right? I hope you come to your senses soon, my tummy is growling and no it is not purring that they hear!!!

Yours Truly,

Shadow

Comment by ellen0502 on February 11, 2013 at 12:09am

How about writing a letter from the family pet, your SRs car, from the company who makes your SRs favorite food (and why their sales seem to have dropped when they left), their clothes that they may have left on the floor, the "mailman" (he/she is probably being stalked by you...LOL).

We had a snowstorm in Nov before my son left in Feb. It was one of those heavy wet 18" snow storms, that hit before the leaves had fallen. We were all out front at 2am trying to keep the branches from breaking and killing the tree.

Come spring, after my son left for BC, we discovered that the trunk had split, and were advised to cable and brace the tree (involving rebar and cabling) to try and save it. So, I wrote a letter from the tree, including a picture (printed on the letter), explaining how the others in the house are trying to save him with the process etc, and that his name is now Frankenmaple.

Be creative, think outside the box, the letters you send do not necessarily have to come from you. :)

Comment by Navygirlmom on February 10, 2013 at 11:24pm

klisej64, I am getting ready to send my daughter a letter tomorrow and will tell her to look for him. Her name is Shelbi and we are from Indiana.

Comment by Lala Ribbon Queen PIR Ribbons on February 10, 2013 at 11:16pm

I only found two other people with recruits in my daughter's division but I was able to meet a lot of others from our PIR at the Meet and Greet and we have stayed in touch. I was glad to have others going through the same thing as me no matter what division they were from. I was beginning to think there was only going to be 2 Sailors in the performing division lol.

We made it home safely, missing my Sailors already!!!

Comment by klisej64 on February 10, 2013 at 10:06pm

Very cool!  Navygirlmom.  My son's name is Jed.  We are from Missouri.

Comment by The Absent Minded Housewife on February 10, 2013 at 9:43pm

It case anyone is wondering what their sailor might be doing, I found a decent thread on day by day activities in boot camp.  It might be something to talk about in letters anyway.  There is only so much writing about what the family pets are doing...

http://www.navydep.com/forums/showthread.php?t=433

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