The wars have been on for 10 years. Soldiers have been leaving their families behind for 3 months to 18 months at a time for over 10 years. It has never been easy for anyone.
But we are proud to support our soldiers like no one else can....and you know what we need support too. My children are sacrafising a year of childhood with Daddy so that others will benifit. I have been touched by many people who want to pray over us or hug us or just share a few words understanding... But today the kids got a little extra support...their own care packages!
Operation Gratitude is an organization of volunteers and donations who send care packages down range to say a comforting "thank you" to our men and women in harms way. A couple months ago we gave them Shawn's info so he could receive a package...I had no idea they did family packages too.
Our FRG (family readiness group) passed these packages out at the latest meeting, since it is 30 hours away from us, we did not make it. So the FRG leader put the kids packages in the mail and it was the most exciting event of the month...MAIL just for them!
Both of the kids got Battalion Buddies which are these adorable stuffed animals wearing a jacket like Daddy's. Johnny got a monkey! PERFECT!!
Lily got a puppy!!! "puppy puppy puppy...my puppy"
They also got some fruit roll ups, girl scout cookies and a recordable book! A very nice book...I was VERY excited! We are going to send one to Daddy to record and we are going to record one for Daddy, I am sure that will be fun.
The generosity of this organization and everyone who works with them has touched my heart very deeply. Without question or comment my children received a blessing to help ease the days away from Daddy. It made them feel special and gave us all strength to get through a few more days. Thank you Project Gratitude, I pray a praise for you and a need for more of this kind of selflessness in our world.
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