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Halloween Candy Hangover
The fun of dressing up is over. Now parents across the country are wondering how they’re going to get rid of all that candy their kids brought home over the weekend…. You Are NOT Alone. My guy tribe enjoyed 8 days of Halloween festivities.Although most of them were non candy focused, (like the Home Depot Party by Queen City Stay At Home Moms) some how we left with at least 5 lbs of candy in-tow! …
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Giving back
Giving back #OperationShoebox @SamaritansPurse #Philanthropy #Givingback
When it comes to volunteer work and philanthropic activities, I am usually at a loss for time between my two jobs and somewhat of a mediocre social life. I have the passion and the want to do so, but I usually find it a difficult task of fitting it into my busy work-life schedule.
As a result, I like to donate money to various different charities from time to time. I’ll pay the twoonie for a pink…
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Please check this out. He wants to help others for his own Birthday.
Foresters BRITISH Teams Develop Operation Shoebox UK to Support Helping Soldiers
Source: Foresters UK Teams Up with Operation Shoebox UK to Support Serving Soldiers
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Infographics: Progress Report
That there is our.. well.. that’s actually our draft.haha. Our topic is about Operation Shoebox and we decided that the overall theme/ambience/feel of the infographics should be a bit bouncy and the color theme should be kid friendly. We decided it to be like rainbow-ish pastel so that it would catch the eye of the viewer at the same time… it sends off a happy/hopeful kind of feel. We’re still working on the graphics since… well, actually we started to make the graphics and we were about 40% done but then we thought that it would be better if we had a color theme.haha.
Moving on, I guess our main goal here is to, well, create an informative and catchy infographics that would really persuade the viewers to participate in this project. Operation Shoebox is actually a wonderful project! and although we’d only have it like once or twice a year… the impact of this project is quite heavy. With that said, I think I have pressured myself a bit.wew..hopefully, we could really give a great infographics. Secondly, (well, this is for me personally) we could use this project to, not only, exercise our passion and love for animation but also make this as some kind of last bonding moments before we graduate. Oh mehn.. I’m being emotional again. (-___-)”.
Anyway, I just thought recently that after graduation, the possibility of making an animation together as one team [again] is quite slim.wew. I guess we’re really parting ways after graduation… I heard some would go to Manila… others Cebu and others Davao. Nonetheless, before that time comes, hopefully we can make one last (or two) final blast in our animation project/s that would make us always remember the wonderful times we had together in college.
Today went from being absolutely awful to perfectly fantabulous.
its amazing what a single drama meeting will do :)
Will you help us in honoring our grandfather?
Every Monday afternoon hundreds of volunteers gather together at one of the town squares in The Villages in Florida to make care packages for our troops serving overseas with Operation Shoebox. There is a room dedicated to writing postcards to send over, a table for cutting out stars from sun-damaged American flags for soldiers to carry in their pockets as reminders of those who love them, a group of women knitting caps for the winter, and in a giant ballroom are several more volunteers gathering items for the final care packages. Each week the retired residents of The Villages, and occasionally their visiting family, dedicated hours to ensuring our troops know that there are people back home who love them and appreciate their service. And for the past three years our grandfather, Tech Sergeant John Charles Berryman of the United States Army, recipient of the Bronze Star, and World War II Veteran, was one of those people.
We have recently learned that our grandfather - Jack to his friends, Dad to his five children, Pop Pop to his ten grandchildren and four great grandchildren - is slowly losing the battle against congestive heart failure.
At 94 1/2 years young, Pop Pop has been a constant source of support, of vast knowledge, of service to our country, and of constant humor. Even as he lay in his hospice bed surrounded by loved ones, he jokes with the nurses there to reposition in his bed, “enjoy the ride, Jack” the nurse says and his response is “wheeeeee!” We let him know it’s okay for him to sleep and so he closes his eyes and snores loudly, only to have a giant grin on his face, because we all know he’s just pretending.
With most of our family here to be with him for his final days, we felt compelled to fill his place volunteering with Operation Shoebox. While it is usually only our Aunt and Pop Pop representing the Berryman clan, this week our Aunt was joined by her two sisters and her niece and nephew. We spent the afternoon packing ramen and oatmeal together in baggies that would eventually be part of a nice size care package. We made sure to sit at Pop Pop’s usual table, to talk with his volunteer friends, and to do him proud.
The more we spoke with all of the other volunteers and learned what went into making Operation Shoebox get off the ground, the more we realized how much help they need. They’re fortunate for the donations they receive for the actual care packages, and yes they could always use more, but where they have really been struggling is in getting their care packages to a military base in California that takes care of distributing the packages to the troops. From January to June of this year they spent $160,000 in postage and last holiday season alone it cost over $360,000.
Last year, Operation Shoebox was able to send 46,000 holiday stockings to the troops. While we were volunteering, it was announced that this year’s goal would be only 20,000 stockings. We heard the whispers from other volunteers that they’d be lucky if they had the money to even ship the 20,000 stockings this year. The couple volunteering with us was shocked and disappointed. We all know how much these care packages help for the morale of the troops, but over the holidays these packages have their biggest impact.
Even seemingly standard donations are costly to send over to the troops. Operation Shoebox received a large donation of Girl Scout cookies, a wonderful treat for anyone to receive, however each case costs $12 to ship and they are struggling to get them to our troops overseas.
We want to honor our grandfather’s legacy and help the people behind Operation Shoebox continue their good work, but we cannot do this without the help of other caring individuals.
Please visit www.operationshoebox.com to learn more about their work and to see other ways you can contribute. Donations can be made directly on their website via PayPal or mailed to:
Operation Shoebox 8360 East Highway 25 Belleview, Florida 34420
We hope that any donations or contributions you make are in honor of John C. Berryman.
Thank you! Gregory & Katie Proud Grandchildren
I'm really sorry to hear you can't serve. :/ That sounds really terrible. I plan to enlist after I finish my degree, and if something like that happens to me, I don't know what I'd do. However, cheer up; there are other ways to support; you could get a civilian job for the military.
That's true, I'm a political science major in university and I've basically decided I want to go into Education Reform and writing political books (my dream is be famous enough to get on Red Eye some day, lol) which is my way of contributing to the country.
It really was a sad day for me, but I'm moving past it. I'm involved in Operation Shoebox and the Wounded Warrior project, which helps me know I'm doing my part for the soldiers.
