{"id":39638,"date":"2017-08-09T05:45:06","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T05:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=39638"},"modified":"2017-08-09T05:45:06","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T05:45:06","slug":"military-mom-surprises-son-over-school-intercom-after-returning-home-from-deployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/lifestyle\/family\/military-mom-surprises-son-over-school-intercom-after-returning-home-from-deployment.html","title":{"rendered":"Military mom surprises son over school intercom after returning home from deployment"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Military mom surprises son over school intercom after returning home from deployment<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">Military mom surprises son over school intercom after returning home from deployment:- A U.S. Air Force master sergeant has surprised both her sons at their schools after her return from a 7-month deployment overseas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">Shania Porter, 36, of Phoenix, Arizona, made the two stops on Monday to announce her homecoming to her boys, Bryce, 5, and Blake, 4.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">&#8220;It was the best feeling ever,&#8221; Porter told ABC News today. &#8220;It was the completion to know it was over and I was home. That was the feeling of home for me.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">First, Porter went to Primrose School of Palm Valley in Goodyear, during Blake&#8217;s first day of school.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">Porter surprised her preschooler by broadcasting her voice over the school intercom in the front office: &#8220;Attention Pre-K 1,&#8221; Porter said. &#8220;I have a special announcement for a little boy that I flew so many miles to see and to tell him how much I love him.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">Porter then walked inside Blake&#8217;s classroom to reveal herself during their emotional reunion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">&#8220;[Blake] was confused and I said to him, &#8216;Did that sound familiar? Do you know who that was on the intercom?'&#8221; school franchise owner Karen Verlardi told ABC News. &#8220;His mom came in and his back was turned and she tapped him on the shoulder and that&#8217;s when they embraced.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">She added, &#8220;To just see them together was incredible.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">After lunch, Porter surprised her eldest son, Bryce, a first-grader at Crown Charter School in Maricopa County, Arizona. School Principal Janis Ramirez had given her cellphone to Bryce to FaceTime with Porter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">Bryce thought his mom was FaceTiming him from 3,000 miles away but soon realized that she was standing at the playground right outside of his school.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">When Bryce realized where Porter was, he ran outside, where the two tearfully embraced.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">&#8220;[T]o see him reunite with his mother who I know he just loves, it was just a memorable moment that we were happy to be apart of,&#8221; Ramirez told ABC News.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">Since being home, Porter said she&#8217;s been enjoying visits to the arcade and movie night with her boys and her husband.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Lifestyle\/military-mom-surprises-son-school-intercom-returning-home\/story?id=49092678<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/lifestyle\/family\/military-mom-surprises-son-over-school-intercom-after-returning-home-from-deployment.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military mom surprises son over school intercom after returning home from deployment Military mom surprises son over school intercom after returning home from deployment:- A U.S. Air Force master sergeant has surprised both her sons at their schools after her return from a 7-month deployment overseas. 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