I woke up yesterday morning with my daughter's foot up my nose and a nice little dent on my leg from the right eye of her favorite stuffed toy. I could already tell at 3 a.m. that it was going to be a very long day. My daughter had already started her coughing fits and I was awake. Might as well start off the day with a Girl Scout Cookie while no one was watching and enough caffeine from a Thin Mint to motivate me for Day 9 of my volunteer project.
Kids Link Downrange (http://www.kidslinkonline.org/) is a project run by volunteers to help military kids keep in touch with their deployed parents. I first heard about it over the Summer through MOPS (www.mops.org). I was so excited to hear that my MOPS group was going to be participating in this program as part of our Care Project and I was ready to use my mean rubber stamping skills.
My daughter and I stamped like crazy to create a set of cards for kids to send to their deployed parent. We made Valentine's cards, Father's Day cards, Mother's Day cards, 4th of July cards, My First Day of School cards, Happy B-day, Happy Holidays, blank cards and post cards too. It was a great opportunity to bond with her and talk about military families. We talked about deployed parents and what they do for our country, how they keep us safe, how some parents don't see their families for a long time and how some die for our country. We kept on stamping even though we were tired because our U.S. troops never give up, they keep on fighting for our country so that we can be free. That being said, we packed our cards and cleaned up our mess before falling asleep on the couch.
Zzzzzzzzz,
Christina
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