This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.
FIRST TIME HERE?
FOLLOW THESE STEPS TO GET STARTED:
Choose your Username. For the privacy and safety of you and/or your sailor, NO LAST NAMES ARE ALLOWED, even if your last name differs from that of your sailor (please make sure your URL address does not include your last name either). Also, please do not include your email address in your user name. Go to "Settings" above to set your Username. While there, complete your Profile so you can post and share photos and videos of your Sailor and share stories with other moms!
Make sure to read our Community Guidelines and this Navy Operations Security (OPSEC) checklist - loose lips sink ships!
Join groups! Browse for groups for your PIR date, your sailor's occupational specialty, "A" school, assigned ship, homeport city, your own city or state, and a myriad of other interests. Jump in and introduce yourself! Start making friends that can last a lifetime.
Link to Navy Speak - Navy Terms & Acronyms: Navy Speak
All Hands Magazine's full length documentary "Making a Sailor": This video follows four recruits through Boot Camp in the spring of 2018 who were assigned to DIV 229, an integrated division, which had PIR on 05/25/2018.
Boot Camp: Making a Sailor (Full Length Documentary - 2018)
Boot Camp: Behind the Scenes at RTC
...and visit Navy.com - America's Navy and Navy.mil also Navy Live - The Official Blog of the Navy to learn more.
OPSEC - Navy Operations Security
Always keep Navy Operations Security in mind. In the Navy, it's essential to remember that "loose lips sink ships." OPSEC is everyone's responsibility.
DON'T post critical information including future destinations or ports of call; future operations, exercises or missions; deployment or homecoming dates.
DO be smart, use your head, always think OPSEC when using texts, email, phone, and social media, and watch this video: "Importance of Navy OPSEC."
Follow this link for OPSEC Guidelines:
Events
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
RESUMING LIVE PIR - 8/13/2021
Please note! Changes to this guide happened in October 2017. Tickets are now issued for all guests, and all guests must have a ticket to enter base. A separate parking pass is no longer needed to drive on to base for parking.
Please see changes to attending PIR in the PAGES column. The PAGES are located under the member icons on the right side.
Format Downloads:
- Graduation Info
- PDF – 2.7 MB
- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
Latest Activity
Navy Speak
Click here to learn common Navy terms and acronyms! (Hint: When you can speak an entire sentence using only acronyms and one verb, you're truly a Navy mom.)
N4M Merchandise
Shirts, caps, mugs and more can be found at CafePress.
Please note: Profits generated in the production of this merchandise are not being awarded to the Navy or any of its suppliers. Any profit made is retained by CafePress.
Navy.com Para Familias
Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com
Badge
NUKE MOMS HAVE BALLS! (Cake Balls, that is!)
Okay, this discussion is for ANY NUKE Mom/wife/gf/partner/family member that has a recipe, tip or
real life experience with balls. Now, stop that! I'm talking about CAKE BALLS.
Feel free to add a link, favorite website, favorite list of liquors to use, pictures of projects, etc.
*****THIS IS ALL YOURS, SO HAVE FUN WITH IT!!!*****
Views: 779
Replies to This Discussion
-
Permalink Reply by swim4life on
-
omgosh, Sharon. that would be tough w/out A/C...do you have to refrigerate the cookies
asap to get the frosting to set??
I'm amazed at what you are able to accomplish. My days are mostly less productive now that my
10 yr old is home from school for the summer. I'm lucky to have time to pee by myself, and maybe
do a load of laundry! :)
you're amazing. keep up the good work!
-
-
Permalink Reply by Sharon ~ K's Mom on
-
Hi swim,
No, I don't place the cookies in the fridge. They are on trays and they "air" dry. I have a fellow cake popper that will share a fast drying royal icing recipe with me and that should work. I just got a call and all the cookies are expected to be at our church tomorrow morning! That is a bit of pressure, so I am hoping they dry fast!
Thanks, I understand how it is with little ones, I have had to pace myself over the years. With the K's being born in less than four years, I was quite busy as well. One would always be needing me for one thing or another, isn't that what kids are for?? Needing mama!! lol
I do laundry in between other things, the washer is wacky so I have to actually hold it while it is in the spin cycles. Old and used, so what can I say? Enjoy the day!!
-
-
Permalink Reply by Binker & Bro: 2X Nuke Mom on
-
havent said anything here but I've been experimenting; ive been experimenting!
-
-
Permalink Reply by Penny_Nuke_MM2_NimitzNuke on
-
-
-
-
Threw these cake balls together last night after an impromptu invitation to a friend's daughters homecoming after graduating from nursing school. Chocolate Fudge cake with Cream Cheese frosting and a chocolate coating. Didn't taste them myself but they said they were wonderful.
-
-
-
Thought I'd let you see what they looked like inside. (1) Chocolate fudge cake with (1/2 tub) cream cheese frosting.
-
-
-
how do you get something to look that pretty?
-
-
-
Awesome Penny!!!!
I am making some this morning to make four graduate arrangements for the parties tonight and tomorrow. Have done some heavy baking, over 200 "Riboon" cookies for the local Relay for Life walk this weekend. I will be posting pictures on Sym's Chocolates on FB by Monday. Have such a busy schedule for today and the weekend. Enjoy!!
-
-
-
Hi Ladies!
I'm still learning and experimenting here, so I attempt to find ways to lessen the cost until I really know what I'm doing. That being said, don't think I am cheap when I tell you I got a 16 oz package of blueberry cake slices at Wallyworld last night. I think I shall mix them with either sugarfree raspberry or caramel coffee flavorings. I started using those when I had a gastric bypass in order to add flavor to things like milk (yuk) that I needed for protein. I think I shall then dip in white chocolate since I have some white choc chips I got during one of my trips between Louisville and Elmira. My question for you experts: how do you make the dipping look nice. Mine are always flat on the bottom with ooze coming out. What am I doing wrong? I got the wilton dipping tools--the round dipper for berries and balls- dig into the balls. Advise me oh wonderful women and maybe some will make it to GC next week!
-
-
-
New photos posted in Sym's Chocolates on FB. I did some "Graduate" cake pops and they turned out pretty cool!! Take a look when you get a chance and "Like" the site as well and share it with your family and friends. Thanks!!!
-
-
-
First attempt at making sugar paste miniature calla lilies - these are right at 1" long and will go on pure white cake balls for a wedding the end of July.
-
-
-
oh how beautiful. I am sooo jealous of your talent!
-
© 2025 Created by Navy for Moms Admin.
Powered by
