Quote Originally Posted by jobob View Post
My company is really big on community involvement and every month we contribute our time and $ to some organization -- Habitat, the local Shelter Network, food drives and food sorts at the Second Harvest Warehouse, backpacks and school supplies for needy kids, that sort of thing.

This month we're doing the Family Giving Tree. We have a Christmas tree in our break room on which Wish Cards are hung. On these cards are the first name, age, and the "wish" of a needy child in the area.

Those of us participating select a card and buy the toy listed on the card for the child. The agency collects the toys from us, wraps them and distributes them for Christmas.

So I'm going to schelp over to Toys 'R Us one of these days to pick up a Lego Harry Potter set for Mark, age 7.

We do this at my company too. I don't have kids of my own, and DH and I don't need anything. Our nieces and nephews are so spoiled it's ridiculous, so I "adopted" a family of 4 and a family of 2 kids in a similar program.

You know what was heart wrenching? Reading that a 15 year old boy's toy wish list includes gloves, hat and scarf. Oh, and sporting equipment. I'm all over that one....

SheFly

p.s.
Thanks to all of you who give to others, in ANY way possible.