This morning, the girls and I sat in front of the computer to watch the Operation Christmas Child Video and to fill our boxes. After taking a trip to the Dollar Store to pick out 2 plastic shoe boxes and a few items per box, we came home to fill them.
As usual, the girls overwhelmed me. Our 4 year old commented that boxes were not full and began to search around the house for treasures to fill in all of the gaps. She gathered purses and hair bows and ribbons and cars and balls and and shoes (because some of the children were barefoot) and socks (because 'we wear socks with shoes') and snack bags (because kids need snacks), and books (because some of the children were reading) and soap (because some of the kids 'needed to take their baths') and basically anything else that wasn't nailed down. Before long, we had a pile of items and 2 giddy girls. So our 2 boxes turned into 5. We prayed for the boxes and the girls asked if we could deliver them right now. They then wanted to watch the video again to see the kids 'get their boxes'. :-) They knew that all kids should 'have presents', and their joy of giving was abundant. And that makes this momma smile!
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