Proud Parents

This is our oldest son being enlisted into the Army by his retired officer dad.

This brings back such memories of being in a MEPS station in 1983, myself. We got a phone call from him when he landed in St Louis and then again when he arrived on Ft Leonard Wood, MO. He starts processing right away and basic training starts on Monday.

Hurry Up and Wait

I've been very busy with trying to help my son get ready for the Army and our trip to Minneapolis for my husband to enlist him, then back home and then quick turn around to Denver. The Hubby has a class in Denver and I'm going along for the ride and much shopping.

So this morning we got to the MEPS (Military Enlistment Processing) and waited for 30 minutes for them to tell us that there was a computer problem and they can't enlist our son until tomorrow. They tried a bunch of ways to get the paperwork straight without the computer so the enlistment could happen. No luck.

The Captain allowed us to take our son for the afternoon and evening. He had to be back in the hotel by 10 pm. But he had been so wound up about going today, that he was yawning in the truck and we feed him dinner and then took him back to the hotel. The Army has a contract with a hotel near the MEPS and such. The hubby and I are staying down the highway, near his favorite restaurant, Culvers.

We going to try again tomorrow.

Friday Sew and Tell

Well I finished getting my paperwork together to take to the accountant. I have to find a better way of keeping track of my paperwork. I feel like I have a shoebox, I throw receipts into.

Our youngest son is in the Army and was home for the holidays and his Dad noticed that his luggage didn't have a name tag on it. I had made these before and gave hime a few.

Husband's version. I took old military name tags and added them to larger luggage tags from Brigade Quartermaster. I tried to find these same one's and they changed to a different style. The new ones now come in neon colors and have a plastic top where the shoestring attaches. I was going to just make the same style, but I had a hard time finding the 2 inch web belting without buying a 20-yard roll. I did find a surplus place in town that sells 1 1/2 inch black only. Using 18 inches of belting, I embroidered our last name onto the belting twice, then folded the belting thru some snap clips I had in my stash and stitched them down, around all four sides. I got two tags from a Yard of web belting. Our older son is going into the Army in 2 weeks. He needs some tags for his bags.

The daughter liked the idea but she wanted purple to match her luggage. She's going to her sister for spring break in 3 weeks. I changed the text to more girly and smaller and waaa laaa.

While getting the tax stuff ready, I was at Office Max tring to get copies made and they had a bunch of business card cases on the counter. I bought one to modify.

I added Magnetic business card stickers to the inside to hold needles and pins. Next time I won't add a magnet to the inside cover, I really like just the bottom it works great. My business card magnets were bought at Walmart. Mine were used, I just used a glue stick and it is holding like a champ. I have a business card section stuck on my freezer of businesses I call regularly, like the car dealership, the snow plow guy. This way I don't lose the business card.

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