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Originally Posted by SlumberKitty
I'm going to do more toy shopping! My Church is doing both Christmas Dinner Baskets (though it's in a bag, I don't know why we call it baskets) and a Christmas Toy thing where we signed up neighborhood children to receive a toy like 5 days before Christmas. I wasn't too excited about the food baskets even though I usually donate to the food distribution each month but I was way more excited about the toys. I already had adopted several families. I told the youth minister who is in charge of it to let me know if she still needed someone to adopt families and she had three families still that needed adopting, so I took another family--they have 5 children, so as soon as she sends me the gender and ages I can go Toy shopping! Most of my sister's children are too big for toys. Only the younger two still get toys for me so I am excited about buying toys.
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It's fun buying toys for things like this isn't it? The past several years I've been helping my friend with the Christmas in July thing the non-profit her step dad works for puts on every summer. She and I have been going out and buying toys for it and then we both help with the event. We didn't get to do it this year of course because of stupid Covid. Boo! Instead they're doing a scaled-down version next weekend that I'm going to go help with, I don't think the kids get to come this time - probably just the parents will be coming to pick up gift bags for their kids. At least it's something, but the July event was always SO much fun - the families who signed up would each be assigned times to come, so that we would have staggered small groups of kids going into the 'toy room' and we'd direct them to the table of age-appropriate toys and they got to pick whatever toy they wanted. I loved seeing their eyes light up when they saw the choices! My friend and I are always fierce with our clearance/sales shopping so we could get the most good stuff possible with the budget we had.