Saturday June 11 I have been invited to display my materials at the Military Family Day sponsored by the Orange County Red Cross. I am looking forward to this event addressing all needs for the families. Come see me if you are attending this event.
Last Thursday I got a phone call from my friend Pat Alivso from Military Families Speak Out. She informed me that she had forwarded my name and information to staff member of the Patt Morrison radio program. Patt Morrison’s Memorial day program was addressing challenges military families face, and my friend Pat knew we had [...]
This is a very exciting time for my granddaughters,Ivie and Bailey, and myself. We completed writing their book- Deployed Kids and now we have a new website www.deployedkids.com for military children. After my granddaughter’s, completed their book -Deployed Kids, we talked about how we could further help support military kids. We felt what was [...]
This nonprofit organization www.militraychildrenscharity.org is founded by a young teenager, Isaiah Navarro seeing the need to help deployed military children. He felt deployed children have special needs when a parents is deployed. Being a military child himself, he said he know the challenges and feelings of isolation,abandoned and having a parent absent of all your [...]
I was invited to speak about how deployment effected me as a guardian/grandparent at an Ombudsman conference by the Naval Reserve on Saturday January 22. I was unsure what is an Ombudsman? I had to look up the definition of word and found out it means- a person investigates complaints and mediates fairly. Once I [...]
