Molly's Adopt A Sailor

Missingyou, Wonderful!!! Thanks!!

Marcey, For some reason your name will not pop up so I am unable to send you a personal welcome message.

We are very glad you joined us! Pat

This is why we do what we do...

Laura,

I am a SeaBee serving overseas. My group received a care package that you organized with Cub Scout pack 28. Thank you very much for thinking about us. We are very grateful and will put everything to use.

Regards,

PO1 R.D.

Makes me smile and warms the heart!

LauraJ, WooHoo!!! Those thank you's are the BEST!!!

my son was deployed on Nov 30 and I haven't heard from him. Is there any way I get an address for USS Roosevelt  Carrier.I would love to send him a care package for xmas. can someone help with this?

http://www.public.navy.mil/AIRFOR/cvn71/Pages/CONTACT%20US.aspx

You will need to know which area he is assigned to to complete the address.

You could also reach out to the ombudsman @ cvn71ombudsman@gmail.com

Sure!

USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71)

Unit 100250

FPO AP  96632

You just won't have his Box #.

BTW, that address will work as long as he is regular enlisted.

I've been away from Illinois for less than 3 years. We moved to a small town NE of Jacksonville, FL. Little did I expect we would be talking about wind chills, cold weather shelters, and temps dropping to actual 24*  Freezing rain will not only be dangerous on the roads, but awful for our newly planted landscape at the new house we are are moving to on Friday. I feel for those of you up North. 

Hi there, my company is wanting to adopt a small ship. Where can I go to find all the in's and out's of adopting and shipping. Guidelines for packing etc.

HIFPO Mom, I’ll let Pat L see if she has a smaller group that has reached out to her. Otherwise, we do an adoption every month and January 2018 is up at the top on discussions. We usual mail out the 3rd week of each month. So happy to have you with us. Carol

HIPFOmom, Please send me a message at newmoms@mollysadoptasailor.com. I'm sure we can find you a group to adopt....any idea about the number of sailors you are looking for? Pat

HIPFOmom, Just checking to make sure you got my email message from newmoms. Pat

Remember your Valentines in the January 2018 adoption!

Packing party Sunday in the Rio Grande Valley!  My friend and neighbor is a retired Navy Chief. Three other Winter Texans gave her fabric and she made 17 pillowcases.  I'm on the hunt for a Girl Scout tomorrow morning to come to the party and sell cookies on Sunday. 

I finally connected with someone who is getting us a Girl Scout with cookies to come to the packing party.  She'll sell cookies for us to buy and include in the boxes.  

18 boxes, 28 pillowcases!  We had lots of toiletries, snacks, candy, plus the Girl Scouts came and sold cookies during the packing party. 

WooHoo! Yippeeeee!! Thank you everyone!

Hi Pat,

I am on my way to the post office to mail 117 cards for the soldiers to send home to loved ones. Sending them some ink pens also.

Blessings,

gb

tysmom, Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!

Has anyone had a package returned from the February adoption?  One of my friends got one back.

Ruth, I mailed late, I also have packages "redirected" to the chaplain.  Will keep an ear open. Carol

Hi Pat, I was needing your help, I received an address from my son and was wanting to know if you can get with me to help me on how to ship it and if what I have is correct. Thank You!

Do the boxes have to be APO/FPO to ship to a carrier? or can it be a priority mail box?

So long as it’s the regular large size .  If you go up a size, it will be very expensive. It does not have to say Military on the box

Oh, Phoenix Mom, if Pat can’t reach you, let me know if I can help. I can’t remember when she was going to be with family.  Carol

Phoenix Mom, You can also use the large priority boxes as long as they are the 12x12x5.5"!

Hi Carols_kitchen I wasnt sure if I can send his stuff just regular priority mail or does it have to be APO/FPO since he out to sea?

ok ladies thank you so much just wanted to be sure it was ok, because I do have the big boxes of priority mail boxes and didnt want to have no problems and the post office will just take and not let me know. thank you again.

So far, the sender of the returned package says the only thing she can think of that would be prohibited is the coffee, but that doesn't make sense.  I'm going to ask her what else is in the package to see if we can figure it out. 

Mystery solved!  Aerosol shaving cream!

120 cards for the sailors to send to loved ones on their way. I could fit 3 small pkgs of jelly bellies and a pkg of ink pens.We included Mothers Day cards.

I am sure glad I have a friend to help me. Question: Do we ever know if the boxes arrive and when they arrive?

tysmom, Sometimes we receive a thank you email and I always pass it along!

Welcome maristar2. Share with us your news about your sailor. 

Carol

Welcome storymom. We are glad to have you with us. Tell us a little about you and your sailor. 

We also have two pages on Facebook for our mission. Look for Molly’s Adopt a Sailor and for Molly’s Adopt a Sailor ~ We Stitch Love for our pillowcase creators 

Ask us any questions you may have 

Carol 

6 boxes are on their way!

Welcome AZMom00

we love new interaction on this page.

Tell us about you and your sailor.

We are celebrating our 9th birthday here. You can also follow us on our Facebook page, Molly’s Adopt a Sailor.  If you can sew or tie dye pillowcases, it’s a sub group on this page, and on Facebook at Molly’s Adopt a Sailor ~ We Stitch Love. 

Carol. Submarine Mom since 2008. 

Thanks Carol for the warm welcome. My son left for BC on 6/26 and while waiting for his “I’m here phone call” I found this site. So glad to find this page, for this nervous but proud momma.

Hi PhoenixMom, welcome to our page. Frozen meals, while a delightful idea, can not be shipped to where your sailor is working. Mail rooms are difficult to get to, and boxes may sit for days before they can get them. Due to your son’s busy schedule, and the hours the mailroom is open, even if he rented a mail box off site, it would be ruined. 

Pour son, on a different base, would sometimes be on duty for days at a time. 

You will need to wait until one of you gets to visit the other. 

Now, I’m curious to know what your special food would be. Nothing like a home cooked meal! When we would fly in to see our son at his rental home, we learned to stop at the grocery store on the way from the airport, and load up on basics. As soon as we called and told him we were an hour from his place, he and his room mates must have put out calls to come over and eat! 

Carol