Day 2--Buy and pack up presents for Isaiah's Tree

So many choices!
Deciding on the bag...Thomas it is.
Ohhh Pooh Bear toothbrushes!
Yes, he'll like this Tigger one.
The fun of packing the bag.

In goes the toothbrush.
Ta Da!

Each year at Christmas, our church helps to "sponsor" a church in a more needy part of our city. A tree goes up in the Narthex with ornaments stating: man, woman, toddler, baby, female teen, male teen, etc., and you just take the ornament(s) you feel led to take. Typically I buy a bag/backpack and then fill it with mainly practical gifts but throw in some fun things too. Who wants a Christmas package filled only with socks and underwear?!

This year, I decided to take a "male" ornament and a "toddler" one. I thought it would be a good opportunity to start showing the Noodle that Christmas is really about giving to others. Being every the pragmatist, however, I figured that we'd better buy for a boy toddler, just to leave no doubt that these goodies weren't for her. We hit T*rget this morning and spent quite a bit of time checking items off our list. The plan is that after she wakes up, we'll fill the bag for the little boy. As far as the male gift goes, I have been meeting with a group of women from church, once a month, to do a little sewing, specifically focusing on messenger bags for this very purpose. We got this idea last March, but with only meeting a few hours one time a month and some months not at all, we don't have quite as many bags as we'd hoped for. Oh well, some are better than none. I'm going to use one of these for the lucky guy. As an aside, we decided that starting in January, we'd focus on stockings instead...much easier to finish in a 3 hour period and so hopefully we will have a good deal more at the end of NEXT year at this time.