Today Tigger and I packed 3 boxes for our adopted soldiers in Iraq, the hardest part of course is fitting everything into the box. Somehow in my mind I should be able to fit four grocery bags in each one, I know better, but I keep trying! MissSnot said this is simply much to boring and went out to chase butterflies in the garden. Tigger actually thought that a Bengal cat should be given the opportunity to decide if the boxes were fit carriers for the goodies for the troops..I read blogs for a while, spewing coffee all over my monitor when I read peg-eye nates account of a troublesome lecture. I continued waiting patiently for something short of eternity , for Tigger to tire of the box, and finally had to physically remove him. I guess the boxes past muster…geez

Soldiers Angels is a group of wonderful people who get involved in supporting our troops in the war on terror, in different ways. There are many ways to actively support troops of course, but our zoo family have picked soldiers Angels. If you like to write letters,know how to preform magic like crochet or knitting or do other creative things like sew, there are all kinds of needs to be filled, Soldiers’ Angels their motto, which I personally love is
“May No Soldier Go Unloved”. Tigger and I are working on valentine cards, just a heads up its about 10 mail days to get to the troops, so if your sending valentines(wouldn’t it be cool if every soldier got one) don’t wait to long.
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There is a story told about a family that goes out for dinner on the son’s sixth birthday,
The six-year-old kid was asked if he wanted to say grace. As the family bowed their heads, the kid said , “God thanks for the food, and I will thank you more if I can have ice cream for after supper, Bless our country, Amen!”

A woman was heard by all at the table to natter to her husband…”that kid doesn’t even know how to pray. telling God he’d thank Him for ICE CREAM, that’s terrible, those people should be ashamed “!

The kid hearing this nice lady nattering, started bawling and wondered if he had done something wrong,
and was God mad at him? The daddy picked up his kid and reassured him that it was just fine, there was absolutely nothing wrong with his prayer, and for sure God was NOT mad at him.

A kind southern gentleman had watched this exchange,and approached the kid to tell him that ” kid, God thought that was a super prayer.” The kid asked really? The kind southern gentleman answered “yes God did.”

Then the kind southern gentleman whispered in a voice just short of a shout ” that it was to darn bad the, nice woman who natters never asks God for ice cream, cause ice cream is good for the soul.”

Of course after all that, the momma ordered ice cream for the little family. The kid looked at his ice cream, picked it up, and with a smile placed it in front of the lady natterer, the kid said “this is just for you cause ice cream is good for the soul , and my soul is already good.”