Whew! We sure are keeping busy at the home office - it seems that we jump from one holiday to another - and we are in bit of a "lull" at the moment as far as shipping out cards - waiting for the next big push of cards to go overseas. In the meanwhile, we are prepping cards for our local events and making cards to "fill in" when we just don't have enough to send over. The supplies that are donated to us are so very much appreciated!
Feb 12 is our next due date - this is when we will want those Easter cards in - while not a big card holiday, we like to have some available to ship over.
Mother's Day is the second biggest card mailing holiday of the year - next to the Christmas holidays - and we are running short of cards (gee, we are sounding like a broken record!) They will be mailed in March and that will be here before we know it!
Our list of chaplains/contacts keeps growing! Just last week we received this note:
Martie,
It's me Chaplain Peter H. I'm back in theatre. You sent me many wonderful cards when I was the chaplain of SOTF-SE. Now I am the chaplain for SOTF-S. I am hoping that you may be able to send me some cards in time for Valentines Day. I have about 700 Soldiers under my care here. I hope you are doing well and I look forward to you receiving your cards again.
What a surprise to hear from one of our chaplains who had done his tour, returned to the states and his family, and now, he has returned back to Afghanistan. Fortunately, we had a couple dozen valentines on hand (card front conversions and others that we had made, locally) and shipped off a box of mixed cards - and he is now in our rotation to receive our cards, once more. Our contact list is approaching 40 again, and that is a lot of cards that is needed every 6 weeks!
YOUR SUPPORT IS APPRECIATED!
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