Week 48

Last night at the Community dinner, Paige, Jack, Emma and I offered to run a craft station at the church. So I went and got lots of different Halloween craft items and the kids organized the tables and helped run the station. This dinner was a Thanksgiving dinner for the guests who came. Over 130 guest were provided with a warm nutritious Thanksgiving meal. Of that 130, 48 of them were children. The families arrive early to get a seat at a table, dinner is served at about 6:30 and some families arrived at 5:00. So that's where our job came in. We invited the children to come and make Halloween crafts.

Some children need help with the crafts so Paige made sure they had the supplies they needed to make a creative craft. We had Halloween masks, foam pumpkins and ghosts to decorate, Halloween colouring pages, foam stickers, etc. We kept them nice and busy until dinner was ready to be served.

Before we left we listened to the blessings, they opened up the microphone and invited guests and volunteers to say what they were thankful for. It was great to see Paige, Jack, and Emma listen to these blessings and realize just how lucky we all are to have each other. Driving home made for some interesting conversation. I'm sure when a warm turkey dinner is served for Paige this weekend she will have some wonderful things to be thankful for.

We are very thankful to have spent amazing times with Paige working on these 52 weeks of giving. xoxo Paige