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Mementos for Medics - showing support for our soldiersJul 29 '11 Write an essay on this topic.
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The Bottom Line I know Epinions has great members who care, so I hope you will care about Mementos for Medics and show my son [and our troops] some support.
Good morning and hello to all my Epinion Friends. I know that it has been a while, I have missed being on the site, but sometimes life gets in the way, and you have to give up something you really love to make room for the things you have to do. No worries though, I have stack of Barbie dolls ready for review and hopefully at some point soon I can start posting stories about them and we can chat. So if you are wondering where I have been and what I have been up to, it can easily be summarized as single mom of 4 [now 14, 16, 17 and 22 – can you believe it] with a full time plus job. All of that keeps me amazingly busy and 2011 has been no help in getting things back on track and under control. I entered the year knowing my boyfriend would be deployed to work as a doctor at Bastion Field Hospital in Afghanistan and as I watch him drive off on the last day of February I thought this is the worst thing that will happen to me this year, but I’m tough and November isn’t too far off. I will just say unfortunately deployment has been the easiest thing I have dealt with in a year filled with drama and chaos – every time I turn around a new difficult challenge is upon me and all I can ever think as I tackle it is WWBD [yes, that would be what would Barbie do]. No worries, there have been shiny spots in all this chaos – my son Alex graduated from high school, my youngest Claire is now officially in high school and my younger son Trevor is the reason I am posting today. This fall Trevor will be a junior in the International Baccalaureate at his high school – imagine the hardest courses your high school had to offer and then imagine them on steroids – that is IB. He will receive a different diploma than his peers that reflects his stepping up to the academic challenge of the program. While IB is all about academic excellence, it also stresses community involvement and giving back. In 2 years, he has to earn 150 hours in 3 areas – creativity, action and service. These hours are in addition to the 75 plus hours that he has already earned and are state required for graduation. Students must develop and implement the projects [they cannot be any project which exists and they can earn “normal” service hours from. Trevor’s service project fell into his lap. He turned Rich’s deployment into a full out project to collect donations, cards and letters for the Troops and Wounded Soldier’s at Bastion Hospital. I could not have been prouder of his choice and the fact that the hours for the project do not start being counted until the first day of school in August, yet since March he has worked to collect over 80 boxes worth of items to send. Impressive for a 16 year old. I am not here to ask for donations, what I am here for is to spread the word about the project. He has started a Facebook group Mementos for Medics https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/232192936813008/?ap=1If you have a FB account and are on all I am asking is that you to become a member of the group to show support for the troops and my son. He is working very hard on this project and would love to have as many members as possible. The link has been passed on to Rich and Bastion Hospital and the soldiers will be joining soon [or as soon as they have an excellent internet connection and can do so]. Passing along this information is just one small thing I can do for my child to show him how much I love him and his choice to do this project and to hopefully show him that people do care about good children who do good things for others. Thank you for taking your time to read this – know I have missed all of you and being on the site. Barbie and I hope to be back very soon.  |
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