Christmas Boxes

When I wrote this post last week about Operation Christmas Child, I promised I would share what we bought to go in the boxes for the kiddos.

Here's what I put in mine (I chose a Girl aged 5-9):

• Nerds!
• Fun hair clips and bracelets
• Mittens (even though this might go to a kid in the desert - oh well!)
• Dress up slippers
• Pencils, Colored Pencils, Chalk, Crayons, Notepads, Sticker book
• Half of a set of plastic jungle animals (Tony took the other half)
• Soap
• Lip Gloss
• Rubber Christmas stampers
• A stuffed reindeer
• See my deranged dog in the background?  I have mentioned she LOVES anything white and fluffy, so she was soooooo upset that I wouldn't let her have that reindeer.  I even had to put it on the mantle while I was organizing everything so she wouldn't steal it.  She looked at the mantle for a good two hours -- even after I had already packed it up in the box.  Poor dog - she's lacking in the brains department....

Here's Tony's.  He packed it up before I had the chance to take a picture of what was inside, but a lot of it was similar to mine, with a few extra "boy" things thrown in there. 

[And he did such a good job packing it I couldn't unpack just for a photo...it's kinda like when he folds the laundry...I really want to unfold and refold the "right" way, but I try to resist...at least while he's watching...]

They take the boxes up until the 23rd - you can find a dropoff location here.

I wish I could pack 1,000 of these.