Letters From Home April Campaign for Soldiers

It is time once again for Letters From Home to send out their items received for the Spring Campaign. The ship out date is April 20, 2008. Therefore, you only have a few weeks to get your items together. I suggest shipping Priority Mail due to the deadline.

They ship three times this year:

April 20, July 20, and November 23, 2008.

The mailing address is:

Letters From Home Program
Ms. Christine Jovenitti, Director
6631 Ridgway Jbg Rd
PO Box 125
Johnsonburg, PA 15845

There are also drop off locations if you live in that area.

Christine's email is lettersfromhome@windstream.net

My daughters' school participates in our local program that was spearheaded from this chapter. The soldiers love phone cards, they have to be international, so they can talk to their family when they have opportunity. Also, the Soldiers just love, love, love, the cards they receive. This campaign is taking Valentine's Day, Easter, and Spring cards. Thank you cards are always welcome. The volunteers stuff your card in a SASE for you. They can not give out Soldiers' names due to Privacy Act. However, if you put your return address inside the card, you may hear back from the Soldier that received your card/box.

It is a great way to help out the Soldiers and let them know they are not forgotten. It is also a great way to get your child/children involved in helping and thinking of others. Have your smaller children make homemade cards. LFH just asks that you NOT use GLITTER, as it gets on the other products in the boxes. I know, I know, how can you not have glitter???!!!
I understand their request and wouldn't want glitter in my candy either! LOL ;)

Donations can be more than cards. They lists all the donation requests on the website.
For more information on Letters From Home click on the title above or here: http://www.lettersfromhomeprogram.org/ Make a Soldier smile!

Happy Monday!
Chrissy :)

Celebrities known for....what?

Annoyed Americans are uniting with a growing trend. Talentless celebrities who are Famous for Nothing. These stars have literally not done anything, and yet the paps follow their every move. These stars court big headlines and big bucks for zero talent. America is becoming fed up.
Kevin Federline got paid between $100,000 to $300,000 for um, well, nothing. Nothing except for his Las Vegas 30th birthday, and maybe a little attention, that is. While attempting rapping, K-Fed got booed off stage by the very people he invited to the soiree.
This list is already long and growing. Including the likes of Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie, Kim Kardashian, Kevin Federline, Lauren Conrad and posse, Lindsay Lohan, Kimberly Stewart, (do I have to keep going??) Just pick up any rag mag at the check out and they grace the cover of five to ten every week. How many times to we have to see Britney's barefoot, vajayjay hanging out, Starbuck's toting, sideswiping, ratty weave, can't get custody of her kids, mug splashed across every mag in the store? I know I don't have to look, I don't. You just can't help but notice when it is EVERYWHERE.
Why not put pictures of each soldier that lost their life or a limb. Why doesn't one of these mags contribute a story to these heroes each week. I would buy it, would you? Editors do not want those stories because they hit too close to home. There is a reason for that. It is real. It is home. I would love to know what the men and women that are fighting for my peace and my rights love to do in their spare time. I would love to know about their dreams, the kids they left behind. I want to know this about not just the ones who have lost their lives, but the ones still fighting the fight, the ones who have been wounded. How are they? How are they healing? How is their family?
Why do we pay our hard earned money to look inside the lives of these talentless, uneducated stars? Myself, I do not buy them. I do not want to further their stardom or their vanity. I, for one, do not want these girls as role models for my daughters.
As long as these known for nothing stars keep getting attention and money, they will keep treating the world as their own private party.
This I know for sure, my daughters will grow up with more dignity and respect than all of them put together.
God Bless Our Soldiers and let them come home safe and soon!