Giving of ourselves

With Thanksgiving around the corner, our local homeschooling group had a Packing the Boxes day for Operation Christmas Child.

We arrived early after coming from back to back gymnastics classes for the girls and having lunch. We brought in the bag, well Mommy brought it in, of both school supplies and toys to sort them on the tables. After the teenagers set up the tables, we grabbed our bag and went to work sorting our stuff onto the right table. We had pencils, pens, erasers, stencils, and toys. Each of the bulk items had to be opened up. After our stuff was sorted we helped with the candy table to make sure that the candy didn't hit the floor and if it did, we picked it up.

After all of this we had to sit to listen to a meeting about how to pack the boxes. After we got the go ahead, we ran over to the boxes even though Mommy told us to walk, picked out our boxes and got to work. We packed up everything in our boxes: hairbands, bracelets, plastic horses and pigs, bags of rice, soap and washcloths, pencils, pens, highlighters, notepads, stencils, boxes of crayons, and more into these boxes. We don't know how many boxes we packed up but we know there were quite a few we did up. We also did up letters to put into 3 of the boxes. We might get a pen pal from another country.

We got tired out and had to leave but the boxes were being prayed over before they were being shipped out.

Mommy started planning and purchasing after last Operation Christmas Child Packing Day and we hope that she does it again for next year.

Also a local Boy Scout troop was picking up canned goods to restock the shelves that at some local pantries in our area are completely bare. We participated in that as well by picking out the canned goods from our own pantry to give food to others who have very little or none whatsoever. We are sure this won't be the last of us giving food to others in our community.

We are working on a box of goodies to give to a friend of Mommy for the mission that she works at in Mexico as well so we need to go so that we can pack up that box and do some more good toward others!!