MilSpouse Friday Fill-In :)

Questions:

1. What is your favorite MilSpouse blog (not including Wife of a Sailor who we all love, or your own)? 
2. What are your favorite perks about your s/o being deployed (we all know there are perks)? 
3. How long did you date your <significant other> before getting engaged? Married? 
4. What do you think your <significant other> would do if s/he wasn’t in the military? 
5. If you could talk to the Secretary of (fill in your appropriate branch) what is one suggestion you would like to bring to their attention in order to improve the lives of military families?

Answers:

1. I'd have to say my favorite MilSpouse blog is definitely Ann Marie over at Household6diva!
2. My favorite thing about Sailor being deployed is all the extra money we get that we can save or even pay off some of our debt with. Plus, he gets to see all kinds of different countries & cultures. When he first deployed I didn't think there could possibly be an upside to something so depressing. I was wrong. I've grown so much as an individual.
3. Wow, Sailor & I always get asked this. & we always get the same response "WOW, that was quick!!" Anyhow, we dated for 5 months before he proposed & we got married. We started dating on 14DEC07, he proposed to me on 11MAY08 & we got married 19MAY08. It was quick, people doubted us but we've been happily married for nearly 3 yrs!
4. I honestly don't know what he'd do if he wasn't in the military. I met him after he had already decided this is what he wanted to do & he had already signed his contract.
5. Ya know.. I'm not really sure about that one. I've never even thought about that.

A Marine family in need!

A Lance Corporal at Camp Lejeune lost his home in a fire on V-Day while making his wife breakfast (He returned from Afghanistan on Saturday)The only thing that was saved was a basket of laundry, as the home burned to the ground. He has a wife & 18 month old daughter, and they are in desperate need of ANYTHING that anyone can donate and/or transport to Jacksonville, NC. Contact 1st Sgt. Daniel Mangrum @910.451.4719


IF you live in the area and want to drop off items, you can take them to Camp Lejeune Base on "F" Street to building HP217 which is the First Batallion Second Marines Building.

Let them know that you are there to drop off things for the Marine Family in need per 1st Sgt. Daniel Mangrum. **Just note that the base will be closed on Monday**

The address that any cash or gift card donations can go to is: H&S Company, First Batallion, Second Marines, PSC 20094, Camp Lejeune, NC 28542. Make sure to include in the letter that the gift card is to go to the Marine Family. You may address it to 1st Sgt. Daniel Mangrum on the envelope. :)


He is with 1/2 he was detached from the Regiment for this deployment
It is a baby girl, however at this time they don't need anymore baby items.


The Facebook group - Help Out Our Marine Family


Jacksonville / New Bern Peeps:
I have a lady in the New Bern area willing to donate furniture in 2 wks if someone can transport it for her. Does anyone have or know someone who has a truck?


Sizes for the couple:
Lance Corporal Noble
Pants: 32-30
Shirts: Med-lg
Shoes: 10 ½
Wife: 
Pants: 9-10
Shirts: med-lg
Shoes: 9 ½


Gift certificates for the commissary or a gift card for Wal-Mart would be awesome!


http://www.operationhomefront.net/nc/currentneeds.aspx


I keep adding information as I get it.

Don't forget tomorrow is Friday!

That means it's MilSpouse(or significant other) Friday Fill-In! Head over to Wife of a Sailor & link up after you've answered the questions & prepared your blog! :)

1. What is your favorite MilSpouse blog (not including Wife of a Sailor who we all love, or your own)? submitted by Our Crazy Life (Wifey note: whaaaat? You can’t say my blog? No fun! LOL, just kidding)
2. What are your favorite perks about your s/o being deployed (we all know there are perks)? submitted by Ramblings of a Marine Wife
3. How long did you date your <significant other> before getting engaged? Married? submitted by Utterly Chaotic
4. What do you think your <significant other> would do if s/he wasn’t in the military? submitted by Adventures of M-Squared
5. If you could talk to the Secretary of (fill in your appropriate branch) what is one suggestion you would like to bring to their attention in order to improve the lives of military families?  submitted by My Life as His (Air Force) Wife