Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome
in his time now for our community connection right here on Kay one, the
one you trust. And today we're talking to our Blue Star mothers and I
gotta tell you, ladies, welcome back. It's great to have Marie and
Christina back into the studio. Christine, and we didn't scare you. Oh
well, good, good good. That is that is really good because I
thought maybe, well then I saw her out there smiling and she's like,
oh yeah, we're back. So tell us that, Christine. What's going
you the vice president here, so tell us what's going on here. We've
got a Mother's Day dinner coming up. We do next Thursday, May the
fourth, at six thirty. The Painted Horse is giving us dinner for Mother's
Day to celebrate. We're gonna hold it at the Elks Lodge is right behind
Walmart in their big banquet room. They're letting us use their room, and
we just want to invite all the local military moms to come and join us
and be celebrated along with us. Well, that is great, that is
really good. Do we have to RSVP? Is that what we need to
do? RSVPs would be great all right. We have three different ways to
do that. You can visit us on Facebook at the Bartlesville Blue Star Mothers
page. You can text or call us at nine one eight three three seven
two two one three, or our email is blue Star Mothers Okay one nine
at gmail dot com. Now do you have to be an already a Blue
Star mother for this or do you just have to have a child or something
you're caring for? Is is an active service member? Yeah, if you
are a female guardian of an active service member, we would love to have
you join us and enjoyed with us. Well, Mayrie, you're you're a
member of Chapter nineteen with the Blue Star Mothers. And not only have you
been a Blue Star Mother, you've been actually a service member, So you've
been on both sides of this point, haven't you. Yes. Yes,
And I was married to an active duty service member who's now deceased, and
my dad was in the Air Force, so I've experienced all that covered.
Huh. Yes, And this is a great organization and there's a very special
bond between moms and their service members, and it's so encouraging to go and
we share where they are, what they're doing worldwide and then we packed the
boxes of goodies to send them and ship every month, and so it's really
nice to have that relationship and share in what our children are doing well.
That is really something, you know, when we talk about being a mom,
Matty, women know what that's like to be a mom, and there
are a lot of fathers out there who have a the same feeling, just
a little bit different, but it's still the same general feeling. You can't
help but worry about your youngster although they're of age, but there's still your
baby being someplace else. What's that feeling, Christina? For me, it's
always been a mixture of intense pride and sometimes even a feeling of grief because
especially when they're deployed and things are going on in the world and you you
have faith in them and their unit, you know, their their teams,
but at the same time, that's still my child, you know, And
so it's really and it's so nice to have the Blue Star moms that understand
what that feeling is and so they can help you work through it. Being
on both sides of the coin, you know that worry is very real.
It isn't My son was deployed in areas where I couldn't know where he was
and really what was happening. And we have some of those situations with our
Blue Star moms today and so again that kind of adds to the worry,
Okay, what's going on? Where are they? And you see news reports
and you get concerned that, okay, is my son or daughter in that
situation. But again, this is really good for these groups to be able
to encourage each other, support each other because you have skin in the game.
You know what it's like, Well, this sounds great, especially when
you have people with a similar experience getting together. You don't feels trapped up
inside your heart, do you, right? It really helps to have people
that understand. And this is kind of what this of this Mother's Day dinner
on May fourth, it's really kind of all about kind of get to know
the Blue Star moms and say welcome. You know, we'd like to have
you in. If you have any questions, concerned, worries, you know,
we can share him here, right and celebrate the mom and celebrate the
moms. They're the one doing all the worries. And we've got Mother's Day
coming out, so it's a great time of year to recognize the moms in
many ways. Ladies, We're gonna take a quick break and when we come
back, we're going to talk about these boxes for our deployed. I understand
this a little bit of a trick to this, but it's a fun one.
We'll get right back to that. After these worries were bottom morning the
camp you will hold on k one. I never forget this, called my
freshman roommate. His mother called one day and she said, Tim, and
I can tell about her voice something wrong? And I said, what's wrong?
She said, can you get my boy home from California? He's passed
away out there. And that crushed me, but I said, I sure
will. I'll take care of it. I said, I'll figure it out.
I will get your son home. If that's what you do when your
loved one dies, doesn't matter if it's three in the morning, you call
your funeral director and say, Tim, my loved one just died. What
do I do? And I tell you one of my greatest stories as I
can tell. Six o'clock one Christmas morning, a lady calls me. She
said, they came over to get my aunt for Christmas breakfast and found her
dead in her home. What do we do? I said, let me
get dressed. I'll be right there and we'll just walk through this together.
It's gonna be all right. I'll take good care of her. Years later,
she told me that was the single most comforting phrase she'd ever heard.
It'll be all right. We'll walk through this together. Arnold Moore and me
Camp Funeral Home, seven Dewey, Martelsville. We will walk through this together.
And welcome back to k One, the one you trust. We're talking
with our blue Star mothers. May we a beer and also Christina Kitty.
Now, Christina, we've got a We've talked about the Mother's Day dinner that's
gonna be on May fourth out at the Oaks Lodge and the folks from Painted
Horse are putting that spread on. Wow, you guys know how to do
mom up good. She's got to come back home ready to take a nap,
a well deserved undivided reading my dad. Also, we have a sponsor
box for our deployed. Tell us what that is. So we have a
list of individuals that have been given to us by people in our community.
So these are deployed service members and every single month we send them two boxes.
They get a food box and a personal care box. And so instead
of just doing donations, which we always accept, if someone would like to
sponsor a box, the contents of each box is twenty five dollars and then
shipping is also twenty five dollars, so it's fifty dollars per box. And
we went up a lot, didn't Yeah, it did. So if anybody
you know would prefer to just sponsor a box and donate the twenty five or
fifty dollars, that certainly helps us get those out. We have an additional
thousand Guardsman that are being shipped out this month, and we're not adopting all
thousand of them, but we are apt a portion of those. So we're
going to add to our numbers to make sure that they feel love from home
while they're gone. Now, what kind of things going And you said food
in one and then you know, personal things in another. I understand that
it's a kind of a fun deal to pack these boxes. May it is?
It is? And we have different toilet trees that we put in the
one box, like toothbrush, toothpaste, deodorant, and their customized because we
do have men and women service members, and just toilet trees and things like
that go in that box. The other box is full of goodies. And
on the form we take in for specific service members, they list what their
favorite candy is and so on and so forth. So when they get the
boxes, we get feedback and pictures and them opening and sharing, and there's
lot of goodies in those boxes. Now, Christine, I understand that it
kind of turns into a party when you guys load the boxes. We love
to share the love. We have a good time while we're doing it,
a little bit of a heartfelt giggle fest at times, I imagine it is.
And we set up the room with six foot tables, and this again
it's at the Elks Lodge who have been so gracious and donating us a room
a storage area, and so in their main room we set up lots of
six foot tables and we organize the things we're going to put in boxes.
So we grab a box, and each one of us walks from table to
table to table, picking up things and putting them in those boxes, and
we pack them full. Oh good, my goodness sakes, this sounds like
a lot of fun and it's well worth the fifty dollars that you do to
sponsor a box and you can do that. Just get a hold of book
Christina or may read the they'll let you know all the particular contacts. But
we do want to revisit that the big day coming up. It's it's Mother's
Day dinner and that is May fourth at the lodging. Can you give us
particulars on that again, Christina, So Thursday May the fourth at six thirty
at the Elks Lodge at ten sixty Swan Drive, which is right behind Walmart,
and the painted Horse is going to bring us dinner and we're going to
celebrate being the mom's the heroes and all you have to be as a mother
or a female guardian of a service member active service member and you're invited.
You don't have to worry about anything. Just show up. Ye yes,
I tell you what. That's major spoilage and I like that Mom deserved major
spoilage on Mothers Day. I want to thank you both for being here with
us, and again, if you could tell us how folks can get a
hold of you guys by email. Okay, our email is Blue Star Mothers
Okay one nine at gmail dot com. Okay, you can text or call
us at nine, eight, three, three, seven, two, two
and three, or visit on us on Facebook at Blue Star Bartlesville, Blue
Star Mothers. Alright, anything elsa ladies would like to add, thanks so
much for our sponsorship. Yes, well love doing it. Yes, we
are blessed to have a good community that supports us, so we truly are.
Thank you, Painted Horse, thank you. All right, thanks ladies.
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