Catching Up To Do.....

It has been awhile, so here is a catch up of the past couple of weeks.

There were the preparations to "welcome" the guys back from their month in the field. We had a gathering and made banners and posters and cooked all manner of baked yummies for them. I spent a couple of evenings in the chaplain's apartment baking 25 dozen cookies in a teensy little oven. It was just easier to bake them there than it was to drag all the ingredients home, bake them in my teensy little oven and then tote all the cookies back to Camp Casey.

When the guys come in from the field, they have to take all the vehicles - from trucks to tanks - through the wash rack to clean them up before they can go back to the motor pool. Erin (friend, not daughter) and I worked from 9 PM until 3 AM the evening they rolled back to Casey. We made sure the coffee pot was full and distributed all the baked goods. Since the guys in the tanks and some of the other higher equipment could not always come down, I spent much of the evening walking between rows of vehicles and tossing muffins, cookies, brownies and candy up to them.

We also had our Bowling Party for the Children's Home. It took alot of planning and preparation, but we managed and in the end 41 children from the home were able to come on post and go bowling and then have dinner at Popeye's afterwards. (Sidebar to the VanWinklettes: some of the children were wearing their beads from Christmas!)

Aside from the fun stuff, there was the usual Snelling things with Meghan's mid terms and Erin's graduation tests thrown in for a little extra spice. I am leaving today for an International PWOC Conference so I will type at you in a couple of days.