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Comment by Kelleypen on July 26, 2009 at 11:09am

No . . . not until some time next month . . . he's been miserable there.

Comment by Kelleypen on July 26, 2009 at 10:49am

A common pin is a straight pin here, with a head on one end. Being originally a Californian, I eat submarine sandwiches, but they are called hoagies by most here. Brown bread is just whole wheat or dark rye or whatever isn't white bread. Carbonated drinks are both pops and sodas . . . but more often the specific type--Coke, rootbeer, etc. Utahans tend to soften t's so that mountain becomes moun-nnn and Layton becomes Lay-unnn.(both said very quickly). Quarter is kwardur. We really do say 'oh my heck' 'what the flip?' and 'fudge' when we need an exclamation. Younger people even say 'hecka good time.'

Comment by Lois C T(momma T) on July 7, 2009 at 11:56am

Hi Moms, how's it going? We had a great 4th, (hope everyone did), my son is home so it was extra great! We have a neighborhood parade, and he carried the American flag w/ his fire dept. The 4th is also my middle daughter's b'day. so we had a double celebration!!

Comment by Kelleypen on July 5, 2009 at 12:36pm

so is there a mole among us?

Comment by Kelleypen on July 2, 2009 at 7:39pm

I kept hearing soldier, not seabee . . . but no, the news hasn't said who it is yet.

Comment by Kelleypen on July 2, 2009 at 3:52pm

Maybe we can contact the base commanders and find out if any of them need books for the sailors? At least the ones in far away places like Afghanistan and Kuwait and others not likely to sell English books off base. It's just under 12 a box for military rate, and I can get 20 paperbacks in a box. Nmcb5 and 11 are deployed right now. So maybe we can contact their commanders.

Comment by Kelleypen on July 2, 2009 at 10:54am

I went to a used book store to get some books to send my boy. He's complained lately that he's read everything he can find on the base there in D'jibouti and has read Angels and Demons three times. When the owner at the used book store asked for my exchange card, I explained to her that I would be buying these outright, since my son would probably just leave the books for other sailors to read when he left. Her face lit up and she started filling up two grocery sacks clear full of westerns, sci-fi, and intrigue/thriller paperbacks. Then when she rang it up, she charged me for one book. That's all. She told me it was her way of saying thank you to my boy and all the others who were serving our country. There were about forty books all together . . . People rock.

Comment by Kelleypen on June 29, 2009 at 9:40pm

Seabee Mom, that sounds awesome. I wish my church did that here. But we do have patriotic services that are just patriotic--like the Freedom Festival. And when we had the National Day of Prayer service, we recognized all the military people, past and present, in the audience. It was very nice.

Comment by Kelleypen on June 17, 2009 at 9:55am

Barbara, my son is a CM too. He's currently deployed in Africa.

Comment by Kelleypen on June 15, 2009 at 8:55am

Jeanne, prayer said. I'll keep her in my thoughts today.

The rest of you, this seems rather silly after Jeanne's worries, but I dreamed I gave my grandson a teddy bear dressed up as a Seabee. Any ideas if this is possible? I know I can find sailor bears at Vermont Teddy and Build a Bear . . . but a Seabee?

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