We have decided that our family giving project this Christmas will be Operation Christmas Child through Samaritan's Purse. We've done Angel Trees in the past, but wanted it to be a little more personal as Maresa is getting older. If you don't know what it is, www.samaritanspurse.org/occ will tell you all about it - it is a great project for kids of any age.
So, the basic idea is that you pack a shoe box of goodies for a girl or boy in a specific age range. We decided that we would all three do our own box and fill it with whatever we thought would be loved by a child who may not get other Christmas gifts.
My daughter informs me that if we are going to fill three boxes, we would just have to go shoe shopping first because how else would we get three shoes boxes? (That's that incredibly literal trait coming through again!) I laughed at her silliness and said that we could buy three plastic "shoe box size" boxes and it would be just fine.
OH NO...that will not do! If it's shoe boxes they want, shoe boxes they will get!
Maresa: No Mom, I'll take one for the team and get three new pairs of shoes so we can use real shoe boxes.
Me: You are such a sacrificial, giving child.
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