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Help with a gift please!
Hi Ladies!
I'm visiting from the other boards to ask for some help. My cousin is getting married in September, and her FI will be heading off to basic in January (I think January, either way he's heading out in the next few months) for the Marines. They have been together through high school and college (She's 23, he's 22), and are currently apartment hunting (she'll stay there while he's in basic and then move with him to wherever he's stationed). So, now to my question:
As part of our gift to them, MH and I would love to put together kind of a "basic training survival kit". We want to put things in it that would make the time apart seem a little less stressfull. We did the long distance thing for 2 years when we were dating engaged, but could see eachother at least once a month. We just want to do something special for them because we're all pretty close.
Any suggestions/help are appreciated!
Re: Help with a gift please!
Oh yes, I guess I should've clarified that it was more for her.
Thanks! DH and I don't live super close (about 6 hours away), but we get up there often since both of our families live in that area.
I did one for deployment, and I put in it:
- a bottle of wine (maybe two, one red and one white)
- a letter
- magazines to get her mind off of him being gone for a few minutes during the day
- twizzlers (her favorite candy)
- dvd
- tissues
- stationary for her to write him traditional letters
- a "coupon" for a dinner date on me and a GNO
Their main (and possibly only) form of communication will be hand written letters so a stationary set or notebooks will be useful. Also envelopes and stamps would help expedite the process of mailing them out.
I've heard of people writing to their SO in a journal that they give them at the end of boot. (Can't mail to them as the service member can't receive anything other than a letter. No packages.)
Thanks ladies! She loves writing handwritten letters, so I love the stationary/stamp/return address label idea. Also, she journals almost every day anyway, so this sounds like an excellent idea too.