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From: Naomi	11/20/2004 4:13:26 AM
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By request I have been asked to post a message I sent by PM. "We are all so excited about sending our stockings and I think mine will be loaded with just about everything I can think of. The shopping should be a lot of fun too. Will probably have to send it in a package so I can get it all in. We all would just love to see their faces when they open them. That is the fun part of Xmas with our family watching the young ones tear open their packages. The looks on some of their faces is wonderful and sometimes really funny. My oldest daughter has our Christmas celebration and her neighbor comes over dressed as Santa and the first time one of our grandsons saw him, his mouth just dropped open and we got that on the video. He just could not believe it and when Santa called his name, he just stood there until he was prompted to go up and get his Santa package. My daughter shops for those Santa presents and sets them out front for him when he arrives. My granddaughter who lives there knocked him off the first time he arrived and said to us. That's not Santa, that is Mr. Jack from across the street as she recognised his boots that he wears daily. He laughed and said that next year he would have to get a new pair of rubber boots to wear only with his Santa outfit. My daughter's husband always puts on his rubber boots to do the Santa's footsteps from the fireplace to the tree with baking soda and one year we had to laugh as the same granddaughter said the next morning that Santa came down the chimney and walked to the tree, but there were no foot prints going back to the chimney and she thought something was wrong with Santa for doing that and asked why. From then on her Daddy never forgot to walk back to the fireplace and then take his boots off. Kids are very perceptive about things like that and we had some great laughs about it." P.S. We all have to get our stockings in the mail today so they will arrive in Iraq in time. I spent two hours today selecting items to put in my Santa stocking. Yep, had to buy a medium size box as I could not get it all in the stocking and hubby has offered to take it to the Post Office when they open this morning. One of our Cancer member's son is stationed in Iraq and she adopted his whole company of men to send Santa stockings to and solicited our help in doing so. Also her church ladies and neighbors are helping. I thought this was a wonderful way to show my support for all the men. It is called "Operation Xmas Stocking" and as far as I know everyone has been excited to be a part of this operation. Most of these men were deployed in the first group of soldiers to arrive in Iraq and this is the first year we have done this. I hope it becomes a yearly operation and I would love to see their faces when they open their packages from those of us involved. I sent two of everything thinking he might want to share his with one of his buddies. I am told that there will be four thousand sent from the US for them. Anyways, I am still up at this ungodly hour and have a wedding to go to this morning at 10 a.m. Hubby will probably have to pour me into the car to go and know I will probably be grumpy too, but will have my "happy face" on when we arrive. Nothing like putting on a act or anything....but the dark circles will certainly tell them. Nite good people.

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