Sorry I didn’t post yesterday,  I was in the middle of a scraproom reorganization project! The winner is Amy!

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Joscie, rhymes with bossy :)

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Love Love and Blog you Later,

Joscie, rhymes with bossy! :)

My name is Joscie.  {That rhymes with bossy, not jozzy, not joe-sy.  Just so you can say it right in your head ;)} My husband is in the US Navy and stationed aboard a ship at Pearl Harbor, HI  that just returned from a short 3 month deployment a few weeks ago.  While he was gone, I sent him cards to send home to our 2 sons.  On the days when we opened the mailbox and there were cards or post cards from Dad, the boys were super excited.  They would read and reread them and smile.  Our 4 year old would ask me to read and reread his “mails” from Dad, as he is just learning to read.  We are facing a 6 month deployment in the new year and I plan to send my hubby armed with a lot of cards to send home to the boys.  I also want to send cards to Operation Write Home so other family members can have the same joy of happy mail.  Some times during a deployment, it’s the little things that help you get through.

Here are a few cards I’ve made up to send to Operation Write Home:

I am still working on more cards and plan to pack these up and send them on next week! :)

I know you’re asking yourself, self, how do I make cards to send?  well look right here for all the details. Or are you saying, I’m not crafty, what can I do to help?  Good news, you can help too.

The next stop on the blog hop is: Dana :)

In celebration of the blog hop, I am giving away a package of Hawaii goodies.  Leave a comment and I’ll draw for a winner on Monday, November 16. (edited date)

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Today we celebrated Wednesday. An average day in paradise where the boys got out of school early and Troy got out of work early enough (and no homework for Jalen) so we drove up to the North Shore. First stop at the Dole Plantation to take a picture of our current house guest flat stanley who is visiting from Alabama. The worlds largest maze is there and Jalen wanted to check it out. I told him, maybe next time. You know that maze is huge and you can’t see over the hedges, just like in Harry Potter… and he was ready to get back in the car and keep on down the road. :)

Next stop in Haleiwa for Shave Ice at Matsumoto’s. This is our very favorite place to get it. We always order strawberry shave ice with vanilla ice cream and today we added blue vanilla and condensed milk on top. OHmyFrozen heaven. it was so good!

When we finished those two off, we headed back down the road to the “turtle beach” and lucked out. Today there were 6 turtles on the beach. The Hawaiian Sea Turtles are an endangered species so you can’t get too close, but we were lucky today and got lots (and lots) of pictures. they are so beautiful.

then down the road again to Waimea Bay, also known to Jordan as the “lucky stick beach”. The last time we went there he and Jalen picked up some “lucky sticks” there and thereby coined the name.

We made it back home in time to make dinner and have a mostly quiet evening. we are blessed. by the way, aren’t they looking cute in their new sunglasses and watches from Target?! They look like big boys, I just can’t get over it.

I also want to thank my friend Eileen who sent me some blog love last week, You are a sweetheart! :)

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