Our daughter is the photographer you see in the ornament.This was at my sister's house in Colorado two years ago. At the time we had thought our son was going to be deployed to Iraq so decided to go to Colorado. As it turned out he was not deployed until February so he ended up in Colorado that Christmas with us. My parents opted not to come in that year as they didn't want to battle the cold.
This year our son is now out of the Army and everyone is coming here for Christmas. Our daughter flew in from New York City yesterday morning. She had a 5:45 AM flight and we are so glad that we decided on that time as LaGuardia closed 2 hours later for the snow storm. My parents fly in on Tuesday and my sister is coming in Christmas Day. This will be the first time we have all been together for a Christmas since our son joined the army back in 2004. We are looking forward to making new Christmas reflections.
I would be remiss if I didn't talk about the most important Christmas reflection of all. That is our savior Jesus Christ, God but also Man, who came back over 2000 years ago to seek and save the lost. He is the reason for the season.
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Our son recently got out of the Army. He was an Intelligence Analyst and served 4 years and 10 months with two tours of Iraq. He actually signed up for 4 years but got the stop lost and ended up doing an extra tour of Iraq and served an extra 10 months. We were very proud of his attitude about the extra time in the Army.
response was I'm sorry but this is becoming a big problem. This is obviously not an isolated incident. I don't even know where to tell him to go for help from here. We are helping him financially as he is totally out of money but he does not like having to ask for our help. 
WOO HOO I just met my husband and our son for lunch. You are probably thinking; so. You have to understand at this time last year our son was finishing his second tour of Iraq. He is now out of the Army and a college student. He only has one final left and today off. We were all able to meet for lunch; coming from three different directions. 
It is hard for out troops being away from friends and family during the holiday season. This makes it an ideal time to send them a flat rate package. Last year at this time our son was in the middle of his second tour of Iraq and he loved getting goodies from home. With him doing two tours I learned the ins and outs of sending him flat rate packages. On our son's first tour he was based at a town called Hit just northwest of Ramadi; the base was so small they really didn't even have a PX to speak of. For 6 months of his tour he was on the graveyard shift so if we didn't send food he was pretty much stuck eating MRE's. Needless to say I became an expert at sending care packages so I am going to pass my knowledge forward as I know there are many other soldiers like him who would love some extra care packages. 
Figuring out how to send these packages was a learning experience. The first time I sent one I arrived at the post office with this big heavy box and spent something like $30 in shipping. I happened upon a really nice postal worker. He saw I was shipping to an APO in Iraq and turned me on to 
closed as long as the box is not modified and the contents fit inside. .
The soldiers love getting useful stuff. Our daughter is a flight attendant for a charter company that moves our troops and she told me that someone sent some marines off with lei's which they proceeded to give to the flight attendants. The thought was nice but I think they would have preferred something that was useful to them. I sent things like soup, tuna, crackers, summer sausage, non-perishable cheese, candy. You get the idea anything that is non-perishable. At Christmas I always sent homemade cookies and candy to our son. He isn't that crazy about sweets but he always shared them. You can be assured that if the soldier you are sending to doesn't like what you sent they will pass it on to someone that does. 