For the December Saturday GROW event, we hosted a Holiday Market. Rebecca and her committee gathered presents from league members, sustainers and even purchased some so that we had a wide selection of gifts that we thought the kids would like to give their mom, dad, grandma, etc. At sign in Monica and I had the opportunity to tell the children about the activity. It was so awesome to see some of their faces light up as well as how long it took some of them to decide who they wanted to get their one special gift for. I'll tell you there will be a lot of happy Grandmas on Christmas morning. We only had a couple (mainly older boys) that said they wanted to get their gift for themselves. At that, we talked to them about the 'joy of giving.' We also had a room for the adults to get to pick one present for each child.
Each child was escorted by a volunteer.
Then they went to a wrap station, were the presents were beautifully wrapped with bows and tags.
When the shopping was over, we iced cookies and sang Christmas Carols.
This tree has all the ornaments they made last month with Seize the Clay. They were very excited to take them home!
And a Christmas party wouldn't be complete without a visit from Santa! Here, this mom tried to bribe her son to get in the picture, but the son thought he had to pay Santa to think he had been good...
All events at Lester take HUGE planning and I'm lucky to have the best committee...
Monica for Thursday nights, Rebecca for Saturday and Natalie for PreK.
I truly enjoy Giving much more then Getting so today was so amazing.
