Saturday, November 11, 2006

MILBLOGGING 2.0 Way Cool ! :)

JP at Milblogging.com has his site upgrades finished, and you can check them out here  
 
and all I can say (with grandmotherly geek excitement:) is....WOW!
 
(and that is the reason you see 'My Milblogging.com Profile") listed in the sidebar now.)
 
I have to agree with JP that one of the coolest new features is the ability to 'claim' your blog on his site  
 
Military Blog Ownership Model

One of the coolest new changes is the ability to claim a blog has been added. Users can claim a blog from the Search Results pages, the Detailed Listing page, or from the My Milblogs section. The member must sign in and click the Unclaimed or Claim this milblog link. The member follows the instructions by copying and pasting the code to their website.
 
So, if you have a blog listed over there ? Go claim it ! :)
 
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I neglected to mention his post the other day about a show on the Military Channel    Milbloggers on TV : My War Diary  (and unfortunately I missed the premier due to work...darn it, TIVO is starting to look more attractive!) but that did remind me that I had posted previously about this show when they were looking for submissions, and here is their home page  
 
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and now, why not head over to Milblogging.com and check out all the cool new stuff ?
 
 
 
 
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Friday, November 10, 2006

Happy Birthday U.S. Marines!

I'm sure the web will abound with birthday posts, but a few that I came across:

 
 
and Vets for Freedom has a listing of Marine Heroes  
 
Major Pain posted an update on Sgt. Major Brad Kasal on Blackfive 
 
Blackfive also remembers another Marine 
 
and here is the tribute page he mentions 
 
So, Happy Birthday to the Marine Corps!!
(and a big shout out to the Marine we 'adopted' through Soldiers Angels :)
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In other news.....
 
The Project Valour IT fundraiser continues through Nov.11 
 
Just Another Thunderhorse Roughneck is in the States!!! Welcome Home!
 
The Stanley family is heading back soon 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Wednesday, November 8, 2006

With a Grandbaby in the house.....

I find we are all remembering songs, and all kinds of things we haven't thought of in a long time :)

Like, I started doing that thing "How big is Aiden? Sooooo big!" (and lift up his arms) Emma asked "is that something standard? Because my Mom did the same thing while she was here."  I said "Yes, I believe it is...dating back to prehistoric times" LOL (which would be when I had MY babies :)

So yesterday, I had the beginning of a song stuck in my head, largely because Emma did one of our bathrooms in a 'Ducky" theme :) When Ben came home, I asked him "do you remember that song with the line...."put down the ducky?"  He asked if I meant Rubber Ducky, and I said no, that's not it.

You know me,lol, this morning I Googled it. The line goes ...."Put down the ducky, if you want to play the saxophone.." ROFL...and there's actually an international training agency that has it as their Theme song!!! 

 
(the things you find out when you Google :)
 
One things my children will tell you, is that even though I can't carry a tune, there was a lot of music and singing when they were little...I got that from My Mom.  And with Ben and Kyle being 6 and 8 years older than their sister, they were exposed to all kinds of baby/kids songs and videos.
 
Like Veggie Tales   lol, in my family, all you have to do is start out "oh, where is my hairbrush?..." and everyone knows the words to the song :) We also used to always sing the song from the Elephant Show ("Skinnama rinka dinky dink, skinnamarinky do...I love you.") And we all recall when Blues Clues came out :) "we are looking for blues clues,we are looking for blues clues..."
 
I know from some of my pediatric patients when I was doing home health that there are all kinds of new children's shows, which I'm sure we'll get exposed to now that we have a little one around again :)
 
But for now...there's suddenly a lot more singing of nonsense songs going on in my house :)
 
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Tuesday, November 7, 2006

WEDNESDAY HEROES

"I have seen their smiling faces and their attempts to say 'I love you' in broken English...I saw hope in their eyes and gratitude in their hearts for what was done for them." -Gary Sinise

 No soldier this week. Instead I thought would hightlight the efforts of a great organization doing what they can to help the real victims of this war. Operation Iraqi Children.

It's an organization started by author Laura Hillenbrand and actor Gary Sinise. OIC was set up to help Iraqi children get school supplies that they would otherwise be unable to afford. From their mission statement.

During and after Operation Iraqi Freedom, American soldiers passing through Iraqi villages were horrified at the squalor of Iraqi schools, which had been severely neglected under the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein.

 Corralled in sweltering one-room buildings without air conditioning, fans, windows, solid floors, or even toilets, Iraqi students lack even the rudimentary supplies that American children take for granted.

 Libraries and books are almost nonexistent. Without these basic tools of education, Iraqi children face an uphill struggle to learn.

 "Imagine sending your child to a school in which there are virtually no books, no pencils, no paper, no blackboards," says Hillenbrand. "This is the reality for Iraqi children. The future of the Iraqi nation is being squandered for lack of basic school supplies."

Along With The Troops, Organizations Who Help Need To Be Recognized For Their Efforts.

For Those Efforts, I Am Proud To Call Them Heroes.

We Have Every Right To Dream Heroic Dreams. Those Who Say That We're In A Time When There Are No Heroes, They Just Don't Know Where To Look

This post is part of the Wednesday Hero blogroll.

If you would like to participate in honoring the brave men and women who serve this great country, you can find out how by clicking here.

 

Blogs Participating In Wednesday Hero

Yankee Mom

Bear Creek Ledger

Mail Call! Supporting The Troops

Yeah, Right, Whatever

CrosSwords

Gazing At The Flag

Hooah Wife & Friends

Right-Wing & Right Minded    

 

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Monday, November 6, 2006

We Now Return You to the Regularly Boring Blogging :)

Operating under the assumption that all 5 or 6 of my readers have been in withdrawal,lol, I figured it was time for a blog post. (or maybe it's just me that's in withdrawal :)

The above pics were taken by Emma's stepbrother while they were visiting for Aiden's baptism, he took them on Skyline Drive. Great pictures,I think, and don't we live in a beautiful place?

It seems that my talking about  Soldiers Angels  ad infinitum is taking fruit :)  First Emma decided to join and we co-adopted a Marine...who she recently heard back from,YAY!! And then my second son, who is currently attending school at the  Central Shenandoah Criminal Justice Academy , told me the other night that he is attending school with a veteran who served in Iraq....and Kyle said one of the first things he asked him was "Have you ever heard of Soldiers Angels ? " (Way to go,son!! Although I'm sure the next sentence was "my Mom won't shut up about it",LOL. And, yes, the veteran HAD heard from some Soldiers Angels while deployed :)

Last night, I surfed around the 'net after work just to check up on websites and folks after my hiatus from the online world. There's no particular order to the websites I'm 'pimpin' today :) but I would first of all like to remind everyone that mail for Christmas to deployed troops needs to get sent BEFORE Christmas

Military Mail Addressed to: Express Mail®
 Military Service (EMMS)1/ 		First-Class Mail®
Letters/Cards 		Priority Mail® Parcel Airlift Mail
(PAL) 2/ 		Space Available Mail
(SAM) 3/ 		Parcel Post®
APO/FPO AE ZIPs 090-092 Dec 19 Dec 11 Dec 11 Dec 4 Nov 27 Nov 13
APO/FPO AE ZIP 093 N/A Dec 4 Dec 4 Dec 2 Nov 27 Nov 13
APO/FPO AE ZIPs 094-098 Dec 19 Dec 11 Dec 11 Dec 4 Nov 27 Nov 13
APO/FPO AA ZIPs 340 Dec 19 Dec 11 Dec 11 Dec 4 Nov 27 Nov 13
APO/FPO AP ZIPs 962-966 Dec 19 Dec 11 Dec 11 Dec 4 Nov 27 Nov 13
 
This is late, but don't know how I missed this pic, and it's too cute not to share 
 
 
Two More Soldiers Heading Home!! :) YAY!!
 
 
 
 
And speaking of homecoming's, my friend Trish has more on how to help the 172nd  
 
I also went by the sites of recovering wounded that I've featured here before ,please consider stopping by yourselves, to let them know they are not forgotten
 
 
 
 
and Kevin Downs will soon be celebrating his 22nd birthday in a hospital, the second birthday he has celebrated while hospitalized. His birthday is November 25  the address to send cards or donations is:

Sgt. Kevin Downs

P. O. Box 118
Kingston Springs, TN 37082

 

(via the South Cheatham Advocate  Click here: Kevin Downs )

 

 

 

You can click here for updates on the Project Valour IT Fundraiser 

  

 
And via Blackfive comes another worthy cause you might want to check out 
 
Lastly, Heidi at Learning to Live has some links to some wonderful pictures of  a memorial at FOB Warhorse  
 
 
Hope everyone has a good week! and, as always, God bless our Troops!
 
 
 
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Saturday, November 4, 2006

I am still around :)  Totally out of the loop, and still unpacking boxes,lol,but just flying by for a quick 'hey'.

The above picture is of a local mountain called 'Massanutten', and it was taken by one of the 'kids' (19 years old,lol) just snapping pics out of the car window with a disposable camera trying to use the film up on the way to get the pics developed :)

Just thought I'd share peek at our corner of the world here, and say I hope to get back to the 'regularly boring blogging' sometime next week.

 

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Wednesday, November 1, 2006

Wednesday Hero

This weeks soldiers was suggested to me by Ruth Blankenship Lt. Emily Perez

2nd Lt. Emily Perez 25 years old from Fort Washington, Maryland 204th Support Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 4th Infantry Division September 12, 2006

The nation is mourning the death of Lt Emily Perez, 23, the first Black woman to serve as corps commander sergeant major at West Point.

 

 Perez, who graduated in the top 10 percent of her class, out-ran many men, directed a gospel choir, read the Bible every day.  

She also headed a weekly convoy as it rolled down treacherous roads, pocked with bombs and bullets near Najaf, Iraq. As platoon leader, she insisted on leading her troops from the front.  

She died Sept. 12 when a bomb detonated near her Humvee in Kifl, south of Baghdad.  

Shortly before shipping out to Iraq with the 204th Support Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, she flew cross-country to be a bone marrow donor for a stranger who was a match.  

She was the 64th woman from the U.S. military to be killed in Iraq or Afghanistan.  

Quick and intense. That's how Emily J.T. Perez performed on the track, one coach said - and the same could be said for the rest of her short life.

  She was a star student and talented athlete. She was a captain of her high school track team and a leader at her alma mater, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. She helped start an AIDS ministry at her church. The rest of Lt. Perez's story can be found here.    

These brave men and women have given their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.

We Have Every Right To Dream Heroic Dreams. Those Who Say That We're In A Time When There Are No Heroes, They Just Don't Know Where To Look

This post is part of the Wednesday Hero blogroll. If you would like to participate in honoring the brave men and women who serve this great country, you can find out how by clicking here.

 

Blogs Participating In Wednesday Hero  

Yankee Mom

Bear Creek Ledger  

Mail Call! Supporting The Troops

Yeah, Right, Whatever

CrosSwords

Gazing At The Flag

Hooah Wife & Friends

Right-Wing & Right Minded    

 

 

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