Rest In Peace

For those of you who didn’t know, my grandmother “Mama Crock” passed away earlier this month. She had colon cancer, which spread to her liver. She was 88 years old.

Thinking back on her, I can’t help but smile. She was such a giving and happy person. She loved spending time with her family and friends. In her younger days, she loved fishing and traveling in her motor home with my grandfather. She really understood me. She and her husband married right before he went to war, very similar to myself and my hubby. I loved talking to her about those days and felt she truly knew what it was like to be a soldier’s wife and what it took to make a marriage last forever.

I will miss her dearly and I know I was so lucky to have her in my life.

Rest in peace, Anna Lou Crocker. I love you.

Stockings for Soldiers

This year I started a program called “Stockings for Soldiers” for a unit I adopted in Iraq. I took $10 donations for each stocking with a goal of sending 50 stockings to the unit. I thought I might have to put some personal money into this, but I got enough donations to cover sending one mesh stocking for each of the 50 soldiers filled with:

–> A holiday treat bag with candy (good stuff, no lollipops! I’m talkin’ snickers, butterfingers, hershey’s!)

–> A card (personally signed) thanking them for their service

–> Slim Jim

–> One pouch of flavored tuna

–> Individually wrapped packs of 6 oreos

–> Trial size deodorant

–> Either a Mary Kay shaving cream or lip protector

Each stocking has glittery tissue paper and a little shread to make it cute and is tied with curly ribbon. I will be sending these off here next week when I get done making them all. It has been a very rewarding job! If I recieve any pics of the soldiers or a reply, I will post it here.

Poor Sammie

Well, I have a sad update on Sammie and her baby fawn. The baby passed away at about 2 months old. However, Sammie has been hard at work and is soon to have another fawn. So all hope is not lost.