Friday, December 9, 2011

Our kids are the best

Last week, Whitney and I took kids from the leadership group and from the women's empowerment group to volunteer at a nursing home. The days leading up to the outing our kids made Christmas cards to give out to all of the people we met and spent time with. During our visit that afternoon we sang Christmas carols, not well at all but the elderly folks didn't seem to notice so that was nice. We served hot coco and pastries. Some of our girls painted the nails of the women there or did their hair. All of these things were sweet and thoughtful, but the thing that struck me the most was watching our kids just sit and listen to these elderly individuals. Or help them walk outside around the little garden. Being able to these kids interact in this way was very meaningful because I know that it wasn't only the people we were serving who got something out of this experience. I know that the experience was meaningful to our kids as well. I hope to plan more volunteer and community service type activities very soon. 














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