Focus on Service

I have put some thought into how my family can more actively serve our community and after some discussions in our family therapy time (to read more about that click here) this is what we came up with, every month we will focus on doing 1 act of service or volunteer or in some way reach out to our  community. We don't know what we will do each month but this month we are going to focus on wounded soldiers. I found a website where you can send care packages and cards to soldiers. We agreed that this month we are just going to send cards but plan to try to do a care package later on down the road. It looks like a great program if anyone is interested in doing something like this I'll leave the link below.

I went to our Dollar Tree and bought 5 packages of cards, the website offers some good tips and advice if you haven't ever done anything like this. We had a good time with this. My oldest daughter Kristin, who is 26, joined us and the 5 of us spent an evening writing out cards to wounded soldiers. Renee drew pictures on many of her cards and Kris wrote out funny poems.

This was a fun thing to do. It didn't cost much and we all enjoyed it. I haven't mailed the package off yet and I'm not sure if anyone will write back. I did include my post office box number and I hope we get  a couple of responses back, I think the kids would really get a kick out of that, if not though I'm glad we did this, I hope it cheers up a soldier that is maybe down or lonely.

Here is the link if anyone would like to send a soldier a card.
https://www.operationgratitude.com/