Away From Home

I received A Thanksgiving Message from [Alaska's]Lieutenant Governor Loren Leman in my email and he says,

"As we gather in relative security to celebrate Thanksgiving, nearly 150,000 Americans are guarding our freedom in countries overseas. Many of these are Alaskans. They will not be able to be with their families. Their Thanksgiving dinner may be eaten in a tent, in a Stryker vehicle, on board an aircraft carrier, or even in a military hospital. If you would like to learn more about what you can do for our military, please visit a new feature on my website called Support The Troops."

There are a lot of ways we can support the troops and he has a list on his website that explains what each service can do for our family and friends who aren't home for the holiday season.

Thanks Lt. Gov, for sharing!

I thought the Treat Any Soldier program was so good and convenient! Using this service you can choose out of several care packages that are assemblied and then sent to a soldier of your choice, or choose "any soldier" if you don't know anyone over there but you still would like to share with someone. Their legwork takes the guesswork out of picking out stuff for your care package, stuff that may end up not being acceptable for sending overseas too.

I baked those ginger cookies today. Hmmm. They are definitely not anything like the cookies of yesteryear. I had to press them to get them to flatten, otherwise they are more of a mounded cookie than a big, flat cookie.

I need to do somemore looking and baking. I may have to pull out the bigger stretch pants after this holiday season!

We plan to deep fry the turkey this year. A first for us. Will be interesting.