December was the time of giving!

For Christmas, my family exchanged names.  Instead of trading a list of things that we wanted, we traded a list of two charities.  Each of us had a month to complete a project and then “give” a gift related to that project

I had my Aunt. Her two ideas that I had to pick from were hunger and literacy.  Although I helped with her project and we collected over 650 canned food items, I failed to complete anything on my own….

I did turn in my donation for Pat’s Kids!!! I had collected a total of $225 dollars over the year.  Bake sales, garage sales, and making bracelets really paid off.  That with the $500 dollars I won earlier in the year was a great donation!

December did not plan out to be as “big” as I wanted it to be. It came way to fast and I just wasn’t ready. I hope that I am more prepared next year so that I can do more things to help out!