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manna; jtill; Enterprise; SwatTeam; SENClander:

I mailed 6 boxes with 54 Valentine bags this morning to Bagram, and will send more out tomorrow. SENClander sent some great ones early this week. I wish I’d been up to doing this sooner, but been under the weather and then hubby’s birthday took up time.

Bags each had little heart box of chocolates, 1 single of oatmeal, cocoa, tea, coffee, cider; blueberry cereal bar, Top Ramen chicken noodles, 1 oz of cashews, and a chocolate covered cherry.

Normally packages mailed Friday morning would reach Bagram the next Thursday; but with the Kiber pass blown up and the supply route compromised, none of the care packages may get through for a while as the air field is probably being used for airlifting supplies now.

I’m going to email our contact tomorrow after everything has been mailed and let him know that at least it was sent.

Some wonderful news is that daybreakcoming is in remission now, no cancer seen on her latest Xrays. She has been going through cycles of chemo and radiation for over a year now. I was finally able to tell her that FOB Falcon got the Christmas tree.

SENClander mailed out 2 boxes to Bagram Wednesday, and I hope she’ll post her contents.

The first 8 Valentine boxes I mailed today and yesterday to Bagram were financed by jtill, manna, Enterprise, and SwatTeam. Thank you all for the big help. 3 Boxes are ready for FOB Falcon in Iraq, but can’t go till I have the new contact’s name and APO. Deliveries to Bagram may be held up as I am guessing that the damage to the bridge at the Kyber Pass has put stress of airlifting supplies into Bagram Air Field, and care packages may have low priority.

Great News: Praises and thank yous to our Heavenly Father for the news that daybreakcoming is now in remission after a year of chemo and radiation.

Mailed February 6, 2009, to Bagram, 6 boxes 12x12
Boxes 1-6 all had 9 Valentine bags and a Weekly Standard magazine, valued at $28.25 a box, with postage $11.95 per box.
The Valentine decorated cellophane bags (.03) were filled with
1 little heart shaped box of Russell Stover chocolates holding 3 pieces $1.00
1 Cello foil wrapped milk chocolate covered cherry .18
1+ oz Planter’s whole cashews .45 + baggie .04
1 pkg Top Ramen noodles chicken flavoring .17
1 envelop store brand hot chocolate .10
1 envelop Quaker instant oatmeal (various flavorings).20
1 Lipton tea bag .04
1 Folgers classic roast coffee single .16
1 envelop Lipton spiced apple cider mix .19
1 Nutrigrain blueberry cereal bar .31

Mailed February 7, 2009, to Bagram, 4 boxes
Boxes 7 and 8 both had 9 Valentines bags as above in them, #7 had 4 issues of Imprimis and #8 had last year’s Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue, and extra tea bags.

Box 8, 12x12, insured $99.85, postage $14.10
1 Combined Light gun for their Nintendo Wii (from Enterprise via Hong Kong, looks like an assault rifle)
1 Perfect Shot gun for the Wii (from Enterprise via Best Buy, looks like an automatic pistol)
4 Valentine bags as above
1 TV series boxed set: Third Rock from the Sun, Season 6
Box with 90 individual wet wipes for cleaning eyeglasses (bought at Lens Crafters)
9 packs 14 Orbit spearmint sugarless gum
left overs: 2 envelops oatmeal, 7 chocolate cherries
3 magazines (1 sports illustrated, 2 weekly standard)
8 newsletters (7 Billy Graham, 1 Imprimis)

Box 9, 8x 11 1/2, valued $44.47, postage $10.35 (Doing my spring cleaning early)
2 canisters shaving gel (last of Enterprise’s from last spring)
5 bath bars Dove soap
1 travel baking soda toothpaste
3 books:
Red Storm Rising (Tom Clancey)
2 Reader’s Digest books with condensed Bad Blood, Long Walk Home, Blue Zone, Iris and ?, and No Time for Goodbye, I heard that Song Before, Daddy’s Girl, and Thunder Bay.
Box with 90 wet wipes for eyeglasses (got at Lens Crafters)
2 sheets of 10 irridescent American flag stickers
1 freebie pen
baggie with samples cream and scratcher perfume samples
12 magazines (8 Decision, 1 Beretta, 1 Cabella’s, 1 Westways, 1 Bottom Line)