I chose to buy gifts for a three year old girl. I love buying pink clothes, dolls, hair accessories, and toys. Hubby and I went shopping and bought everything on that little girls wish list and then some.
Our neighborhood's women's group signed up to help wrap all those gifts for those 1,000 kids.
I had some left-over candied fruit and made some biscotti's to bring along. This was my first time with biscotti and they are a little tricky. More on them another day.
We met at 12 noon for four hours of wrapping. What a system they had going. As people brought in their gifts, they were checked off a list and put into a large plastic bag. Then one of the wrappers would empty the bag, wrap away, and put everything back into the back and tape it up. The gifts were then checked off another list and carried away to the back room.
By 1:30 I was ready to go home. My back was starting to hurt and I was getting tired. By 3:00 everyone had a backache and wanted to go home. As we took the bags and wrapped, the pile did not go down. More and more gifts kept coming. So far, they had only gotten about half of the gifts in. Luckily, more groups had volunteered to come in during the coming days to finish up.
We all went home tired that day, but with big smiles on our faces. There is nothing like helping others to put you into the holiday spirit.
Santa's helpers:
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| The never-ending pile of unwrapped gifts |
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