Putting out Fires

Every year my group at work collects money to adopt Salvation Army Christmas Angels.  What could be better than giving in a way that allows parents to give wonderful toys and clothes to their children when they might not otherwise have been able to?  We were able to collect enough money to buy for 7 children this year. 

After lunch my cubemate and I loaded up all of our bags full of goodies on a cart and drove over to the lobby of our plant to drop them off.  I was shocked to find the lobby filled with a sea of bike handlebars sticking up over piles of white bags with wrapping paper rolls sticking out of the top each.  We stepped over all of that Christmas cheer to find empty places for our own Disney Princess bikes, race cars, and Barbie houses.  When we were done, I looked up and noticed busy people coming into the building, stopping, looking at all the presents about to go to grateful children, and smiling.  Then they smiled all the way through the building as they made a path through the bags and bikes on their way to the next meeting.  I’m sure meetings all over the plant were a little more lighthearted as a result.  After ringing the bell on the closest bike to me, I went back to my desk feeling a little lighter too.

If you’ve never felt the joy of changing a child’s Christmas, please visit this website:  http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/

Happy Holidays! - Amanda

If you like these words:

marathon, mulet, merlot or mugwump (yeah, its a real word, look it up)

then don’t come play Scrabble at my house.  One of our ‘M’s came to a very sad demise in the mouth of a puppy.  I expect we should be seeing it again by about tomorrow, but I’m pretty sure you’d not want to use it.