Photo: ADVON returning from a year-long deployment. Okay, I have to admit that after 15+ years as an Army wife, I don’t know what ‘TORCH’ and ‘ADVON’ stand for. Something about advanced party … but there’s no ‘p’ for ‘party’ … so I just don’t know. I do, however, know what it means. It means your Soldier comes home FIRST!! We’ve never had the honor of either of those designations. My husband somehow manages to get himself into the ‘stay-behind-and-make-sure-all is-well-out-here’ job and comes home late or last. Not that I’m complaining, though, as I am happy these TORCH and ADVON folks get here and get the place ready for everyone else to come home. In a way, it’s reassuring to me. The wheels are turning, the process has begun … our unit actually is coming home and coming home soon! Homecoming becomes reality, not just a long-sought-after dream. It’s good to see our unit patch and our unit Soldiers back at home, on U.S. soil and on our Army installation. It’s heartening to w
That is so precious and sweet! What a testament to you as a Mom to have such caring and compassionate boys!! So sweet! I had no idea it was illegal to hold a hummingbird.. my goofy father-in-law prides himself on catching hummingbirds in his hand.. it always scares me because they are just such little creatures! Well now I'll have to tell him that it's against the law! ;)
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ReplyDeleteOne of our cats caught a baby blue jay in my garden recently. We put it on the branch of a tree and hoped that its parents would come back again. They eventually did! My younger brother found a bird with a broken wing and tried to nurse it back to health, but it died the morning after he found it. He was sad. :(
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