Miss Erica's units patch :)It is funny that such a simple thing like a phone call can totally make your day, and she did.. she called before 0400 (4am) here, of course it was night time there. She actually called to thank me for the box I sent.. first time for everything.. so I talked to miss Erica on the way to work and when I got there I hurried to TDR (team dining room) so Bryan could finally say hello, he had not talk to her since Christmas :( Sometimes your kids amaze you how smart they are. Miss Erica had lost her home state ID and had only her military one but that doesn't help when you need to do your taxes and the government made a mistake with your residency... luckily when your over seas you automatically get an extension for your taxes. I tried to see if I could get her a replacement, with no luck she had to be precent. So she went on line and looked up our state, then our county, then went to the voter registrar and that has a list of voters and of course to vote in your state you have to be a resident.. so they excepted that to change her state to the correct one LOL I would have never thought of that one.
She sounded real good and was hanging out with a friend from 29 Palms, her friend is married to a Marine thats deployed so they are hanging out a lot .. and this friend is PG'er so of course she was thrilled with the box too, which had special cookies in it from work.. I thought they would be hard as rocks but Erica requested them.. but they said they were good.. shocking LOL
I am doing a cancer walk next weekend, last year this time Erica had walked it with me I was a little Mad at her because we thought she was leaving for boot camp the next day and she had walked/run 35 miles in 24 hours... thank goodness there was a delay in her leaving and she didn't go until the next week. May 11th she will have reached her one year mark in the Marine Corps. I am still amazed, and still a Proud mama. I tell her every time I talk to her ... I know things have not been perfect along the way for her but she tries so hard to make it all a positive experience, all during boot she never wrote one negative thing to me.
Even some things that happened to her along the way that I happened to find out about, she was more upset because she didn't want ME to have any stress. What a kid .. not perfect .. but I'd have to say pretty close ;) love ya Erica and miss ya too *hugs love mom
