The 22 Days of Christmas

So, we've gotten started on our little giving project.  Our first days was filled with a few hiccups.  We chose to take a cup of McDonald's coffee to the Salvation Army bell ringer outside of our Wal-Mart.  We dropped Jacob off at school, picked up the coffee and headed to Wal-Mart.  Well, apparently, bell ringers aren't out before 8am on December 1st.  Since McDonald's coffee is ridiculously hot and I needed to run to the ATM anyway, we ran over to the bank and came back around 8:30...still not there.  The boys were pretty determined to sit in the parking lot and wait for that bell ringer to show up. :) I decided that maybe it'd be better to go on home and decide what to do.  Consequently, I drank that coffee and I took another cup later after sunset.

On our second day, we baked Banana Bread for our sweet neighbor who is having surgery in a couple of weeks.
We used day 3 to make several types of home made bath salts and on day 4, we gave one of our elders and his dear wife a bottle of wine.
On day 5, we took a jar of our lavender bath salts to the kiddo's grandma who has a fractured vertebrae (ouch!) and is off of work.