I know it's been a long time since I've posted anything and I have a lot of catching up to do, but I decided to start posting with current events and finishes instead of continually putting it off to do the catch-up posts first.
Last night was the Operation Christmas Child Shoe Box Packing event at our church/school. This is an annual event that has replaced having the students each pack their own boxes. It starts with a spaghetti dinner and ends with the blessing of the boxes in the bus. The goal was 1,000 boxes.
There was organized chaos as usual. The little girl with the braid in the gray shirt is Kyleigh.
After picking up a Boy or Girl box and deciding on an age range, you filled the box with school supplies, toiletries, age appropriate toys and/or stuffed animals. The little girl with Kyleigh is a friend of hers. They packed together the entire evening.
Once the box was packed to your satisfaction, you wrote a note to the recipient, put it in the box, marked the age range and then put a rubber band around the box to keep it closed. They had papers with various messages you could copy or you could make up your own.
At this point you could take a picture commemorating the evening before you took the box to be loaded onto the bus (I forgot to take a picture of the bus.)
As the evening continued, people started packing more than one box at a time. This was our last time through where we did two boxes each. Between the three of us, we packed 15 boxes.
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