Sunday, January 4, 2009
Catching Up!
Because it's been a year...correction....over a year since I've posted, I'll just start with last month and try to post the highlights from last year when I can.
Last month, we had a busy, but blessed month. I was actually sad this year to see the Christmas decorations come down. Usually I'm ready the day after Christmas to get everything down and back to normal. This year, I didn't want to take everything down. And even little Michael sat in the chair after everything was put away and had a really sad look on his face. I asked him what was wrong and he said, "I miss the tree." I told him that when I was a little girl, I use to always be sad too when the tree came down. But I also told him that the Joy of Christmas lives in our heart everyday. That Joy can be with us even when the tree comes down. Because that Joy is our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Who is always with us!
We took a couple field trips last month admist our trying to finish up Christmas shopping and everything that goes with it.
Our first field trip was to Samaratin's Purse. That was a really fun and informative field trip. We learned so much about how our gifts boxes are prepared and sent to little children all over the world. The people that work there were so nice!
First the kids got to draw pictures of themselves and write a little note to put in a box and prayed over the boxes being sent.
Then they learned about how the boxes were sorted through to make sure they didn't have items in them that can't be sent. Some items were chocolate (cause it could melt!), toy soliders, money, liquids. After learning about this, then they got to form teams to be in a relay race to see what team could go through their box the 
quickest and find items that didn't belong.
quickest and find items that didn't belong.
Then we took a tour around the facility. It really helped us to have a good vision of where and how it all happens.
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Then went into what looked like a tent and they mimiced what it would be like to be in country across the world during a distribution of the boxes. Each child was handed a box, just like the children from around the world would be.
After that we all went upstairs for light refreshments and face painting. It truly helped start out our month with a feeling of what the true meaning of Christmas is...which is giving.
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