Sending and Receiving Gifts

Each year we join many others at Woolwich Wiscasset Baptist Church and fill a couple shoe boxes with small gifts to be sent overseas and distributed by Operation Christmas Child to needy children during the Christmas season. Nolan, Atira and I went on Saturday night to pick out the items we would put in the boxes. Nolan chose for the boy's box and Atira for the girl's. Atira also enclosed a letter in hers in which she hoped that the recipient would enjoy all the "cool and girly stuff". This year we donated our shipping cost online which allows us to track exactly where in the world our boxes end up. I love to imagine the joy that this small box of goodies will bring to one little life.



It is usually much more enjoyable to give than receive. One exception to this would be receiving the gift of children.
Jubal's 16th birthday coincided with the day I had planned to drop off our shoeboxes at the Nazarene church on Lisbon Falls. This worked out very well because the corner store, on 196, specializing in Moxie paraphernalia, was only a couple miles a way. After dropping the boxes off, The kids and I managed to snag a Moxie tie, t-shirt and glass mug for Jubal's celebration. At home there was a phone call from the Australian grandparents (during which he managed to eat supper and play living room soccer with Atira and Tell).



Then Grandad and Mimi to arrived with cake to round out Jubal's sixteenth birthday quite nicely.






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