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Time for St. Patrick Day cards!
Then we are only a week away from Easter...this will be the first time in 21 years that our son won't have jelly beans!!! Much less an Easter basket! Who do you think we be more sad...us or him?!!!
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Permalink Reply by Alexa on
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I was told that we can't send any packages or food or anything like that, but can we send cards? I'm sure that would bring a smile to his face!!!!
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Permalink Reply by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on
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Alexa, you can send all the cards and letters that you can write! Just no packages, no food and no "inappropriate" photos. Write everyday if you can, it is usually the only thing they have to look forward to in the weeks ahead.
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I have been writing him everyday, and I hope that it's helping!!! But I'm glad I can send him cards, he loved it when I used to make him little cards and things when he was here!!! I know that will cheer him up!!
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By the way, what ship and division is your son in? I can't find anybody that's with my fiance!
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Are son is marking his two week mark on Tuesday; he is on Ship 7, Division 161 - what about your fiance?
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Greg is in Ship 11 DIvision 151, he is going to graduate April 18th. I can't wait!!!! Have you gotten anything from your son yet?
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You go the week before us Alexa, I am hoping for our first "real" letter this week but we got a tremendous surprise, Nick "earned" a phone call on day 9 of boot camp. I was afraid something was wrong for him to call so soon but he simply earned 5 minutes of phone time! He sounded great, had no complaints, thought the food was good, was worried about his girlfriend and...or yeah...how is everyone else!!!
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I know your letters are helping Alexa, when my finance went in I wrote him volumes everyday. 23 years later my husband and I have a six foot wooden crate in our basement and we saved every letter! Cards help take some of the pressure off the letter writing and they are so many fun ones out there. Also think about things he enjoys; sports ? Send him a newspaper clipping about his favorite team and how they are doing. Jokes? He can share them with his division mates - anything to give him a touch of home.
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That's what we're doing!! We decorated a box together and it has all my letters form him in it!! I really hope that someday we can look back on this and smile, at least that's what I keep telling him. He's having a really hard time, he says he doesn't think that he can do it without me!! I just tell him that it will be over soon, and hopefully 23 years from now, we can still look back on this and read those letters!!! That's a good idea though, maybe I will start making him things like I used to, that will help him to remember things that make him happy!! I've been thinking about sending him some funny pictures of us together, I think that might be a good idea.
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Pictures of you together would be wonderful for him! He will be showing you off in GL! Just keep reminding him of how proud you are of him and you KNOW he can do this and before you know it graduation will be here.
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Oh my Tammy, you sound so much like my husband and I!! We lived in fear that they would find a way to open "Our" crate and we would have to start explaining!! My husband asked me to marry him while in "C' school...those letters are powerful!!! lol
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