Day 200 ~ Mother's Day Gifts!

The gifts, with notes from me, Libby and Margaret

I went to Walmart and Staples on Mother's day eve so I could set this up for Karen when she walked in after working all night. The center gift was from me and the two on the side were from our dogs. You have no idea how tough it is to get dogs to go to Walmart with you ☺

Now we can rock out on our computer.

We have really cheap speakers on our computer so I went to Staples and got these at a good price. Now our music won't sound tinny.

yummy

These are two of Karen's favorite treats; these were from Margaret.

A painting

 I went to Walmart to buy the frame and the picture is actually a "painting" I had commissioned from DeviantART. The artist drew the painting form Karen's profile picture on Facebook.

I hope Karen had a great Mother's day, even though she had to work.

See you tomorrow.

Day 58 ~ The Kids deliver Christmas Gifts to the Neighbors

The Kids who delivered the Gifts

The Senior's group in our church like to make little gifts for the neighbors; a gesture of good will to the houses around our parish and just a nice way to say Merry Christmas. They asked me to get a group of kids together to deliver the gifts. That is what we did this Saturday morning.

holding a gift; reading a prayer!

There were 22 gifts that needed to be delivered.  Since it was 9am, I figured an other really good Christmas gift for our neighbors is to NOT ring their doorbell so early. We decided to just leave the gift by their front door. 

Reading a prayer

Because as a church we really do love our neighbors, we thought it would be a good idea to say a pray for each neighbor  before we left the gift so I printed out three short prayers that the kids could chose from to ask God's Blessing on our neighbors. 

three prayers to choose from

Nice short prayers are the best; don't you think?

managing, despite the wind

It was pretty windy and a little cold but we made it through somehow.

I guess you can smile and pray at the same time

We made sure we prayed out loud so we could all pray along with them.

Striking a pose

 I must say, the kids weren't camera shy.

running to deliver a gift

 We only sent one kid at a time to the door so that people wouldn't feel overwhelmed if they happened to come to the door. As it is, two people did come to the door even though we didn't ring any door bells.

returning to the group, ninja style!

Some kids really like to ham it up!

Almost done!

 The kids enjoyed delivering the gifts.Before we actually went out to make the deliveries, we read from the book of Proverbs, chapter 18, verse 16~ "A man’s gift makes room for him and brings him before the great."  We talked a little about gifts and how Jesus was the greatest Gift of all.

See you tomorrow.