Our family participated this year in a program where you can buy gifts for families in need. It is a neat program, and is quite large in our area. It is run through a Christian organization, and then there are TONS of churches (of all kinds of denominations) that participate as host sites. A host site is responsible for getting people in their church to buy gifts, clothes, etc. for the children whose parents will be coming to their church to get gifts.
The neat thing, I think, about this particular program is that each parent gets to “shop” for the gifts for their kids. For example, we bought gifts for an 8 year old girl. But, that’s not really to say that an 8 year old will be getting our gifts, or that all the same child will get the gifts we bought. The parents will get to pick the gifts from what is available (in an orderly manner, of course), and then there is a gift wrapping table. The parents then get to write on the gift tags themselves, etc. I think it’s nice and it gives the parents more of a sense that they had some say in the gifts their children get.
We dropped our gifts off at church last night (I will be helping next weekend during the actual event). Noah and I got to talking about it tonight. He was commenting that he really thought “that girl” would like her gifts.
I told him that I hoped she would. I told him that even though we don’t have a lot of money, we do have more than some people. And, it’s nice when maybe we can skip having a meal out and instead help buy something for someone else.
I then went on to say, “Did you see all those gifts at church?!? I think that by us helping to buy some of those gifts, it will make some family’s Christmas much nicer!”
He was silent for a moment, and then his eyes twinkled. He hugged me and said, “I think it will make our Christmas much nicer too!”
Kids sure are insightful sometimes, aren’t they?
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