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Lisa — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 23:51:14 +0000

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I am sooo glad to be able to be a part of the USO/Cheerios sendCheer program. It is great that we can show our appreciation for our troops in such an easy way. I recently bought 10 boxes of Cheerios to donate to friends and family (and a complete stranger too!). Here’s what it looked like:

As you can see, I’ve got a great bunch of people who really wanted to show the troops how much we care! If you don’t know how the program works, here you go:

1. Buy a box of specially marked Cheerios.
2. Cut out the postcard.
3. Fill in the postcard with thanks to our troops.
4. Add a stamp and put in the mail.

The USO does the rest (the postcard is already preaddressed to them). It’s that easy to make a family of one of our troops feel like they are appreciated!

I also need to bring attention to one of the people who I donated cereal too (you’ll see her in the slideshow above). Her name is Mrs. Jacky, and she works for our local park district. However, in her free time, she sends packages to our soldiers. She’s done this since 2003 and has sent over 2000 packages to our local soldiers! I always try to donate whatever I can (and she can especially use postage!) for her to send (for example, when we stay in a hotel, I always grab the shampoo and lotion. I then donate them to Mrs. Jacky who sends them overseas.) The letters and pictures of thanks get added to her bulletin board. This woman is an angel. Here is a list of things she collects to send over if any of you would like to help:

Shampoo

Baby Wipes

Soap

Toothpaste

Hard Candy

Juice boxes

Snack food

Lip Balm

Combs

Sunscreen

Gum

Tylenol

Food Bars

Toilet Paper

Foot Powder

Small botthle of hand “no water” soap sanitizier

Band Aides

Canisters of presweetened Kool-Aid, Tea, and Lemonade

Mouthwash

User Paperback books

Toothpaste samples or floss

Sunday Comics

Extra condiment packets (sugar, ketchup)

Toothbrushes

Children’s drawings

Extra item in a pack (example: 6th gum free in a 5 pack)

Encouraging letters

Hotel shoe shine kits

Hotel small shampoo

Hotel small soap

Hotel small lotion

Hotel sewing kits

Hotel small conditioner

Hotel small mouth wash

I am hoping that you all can help with such a great campaign by buying a box of specially smarked Cheerios(or donate to any local people doing things for the troops)!

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The Makeshift Mailbox

Lisa — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:38:13 +0000

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This is what my mailbox now looks like after our fix. If you didn’t read that post, a snow plow hit our mailbox in the middle of the night Friday night. However, you have to have a mailbox to have your mail delivered. Since the ground is frozen here, we can’t replace the mailbox anytime soon. Here is what it looks like now:

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About that mailbox . . .

Lisa — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 02:54:32 +0000

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I’ve never been a big fan of my mailbox. However, it served its purpose till last night. We woke up this morning to our mailbox laying on the ground. Since a lot of my product reviews are sent by the mail, this is a very bad, bad thing. Second problem, it snowed here last night, so the ground is frozen. We think it was hit by the snow plow in the middle of the night (it was still there at 11 pm). The beam that actually holds the mailbox is split. We had to do a horrible fix job in about 20 degree weather today. Bill took some industrial clamps and zip ties and that is the only thing that is holding the beam together. The beam also leans forward pretty bad, so we had to take stakes and pound them into the ground around the base. This looks like the worst white trash mailbox I’ve ever seen, and there is no way to fix this until the ground thaws out. I am hoping to get some pictures of my sorry looking mailbox tomorrow. If anyone has any ideas of how to get new a mailbox into the frozen ground, I am all ears.

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I won! I won!

Lisa — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:57:20 +0000

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I will say it again. I am not lucky (which I know you guys are starting to not believe me when I say this). I just found out last night that I won Elizabeth’s (Table4Five) DVD giveaway for Baby Einstein Baby’s First Sounds DVDs. I am super excited. We own a ton of Baby Einstein DVDs, and they are all awesome. Madison still likes to watch them once in a while. My mail sucks, so it’ll probably take a while to get here. I’ll be unpatiently waiting for it.

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Birthday Cards

Lisa — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:44:52 +0000

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Before I leave for California to go sleep on some memory foam mattresses, I had to show you the birthday cards Madison made yesterday. The pink one is for Bill’s sister Christy. The blue one is for Bill’s brother Nick. I took a picture of them before I put them in the mail.

Aren’t these super cute? I didn’t take a picture of the insides, since you all know how to spell her name. Though she knows how to spell her name and write it without any help from me!

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