My Navy family

It's Christmas, I missed my family a lot today. Mom sent me presents and a stalking of goodies, thank you mom. Dad put together a compilation of digital pictures and put them on a digital picture frame. All I had to do was plug it in a poof, pictures; thank you dad. I also saw the pictures and videos of sledding today, I wish I was where for that. But the part that is worth blogging about today is that I met my Navy family.

Today I went to church for the morning mass. As we were filing out a 40s year old woman and her 20s year old son approached me. They noticed I was sitting alone and asked if I had anywhere to go for Christmas. I said no, so she invited me to join her family for Christmas dinner. I went over to their house and had a great dinner. It taste as good as my mom's food and is much better than spaghetti with prego sauce out of a jar.

We talked about the military, apparently most of their family has retired from the military or had military experience. We talked about culture differences. I told them they had an accent. They told me I needed to go to a waffle house and have some grits ha ha. Their family was so pleasant, it felt casual and had a great time.

The most humbling moment was when the mom (Tracey) asked me where my family was, I said "Washington state. I'm really bummed I couldn't be with them." She smiled and said "Well you're with your Navy family. I can be your mom today." I felt so warm and blessed, I was smiling and didn't even notice until my cheeks hurt. I had to stop myself from smiling because I'm sure I looked like an idiot ha ha. Tonight I got some true southern hospitality. The Navy does take care of it's own.

Time for sleep, I have the watch in seven hours. Merry Christmas everyone =D