An email was sent out at my office that a toy drive was
going to be held and also that if you donated then your name would be put in
for a raffle of a free vacation day. Heck I’ll take a free vacation day,
especially since our vacation policy is pretty redonkulous I even won’t have
enough vacation day next year to cover all the shut down time we have next
year, nevermind all the days off that my kids have from daycare being closed
for holidays I don’t get off. But that is besides the point.
So the toy drive is for needy children. There was a list of
items that were requested the most. So this past weekend I decided to take the
kids to the store. Now before we left I explained to him that the toys that we
were going to buy were not for us. We were not keeping them; that they were
going to kids that did not have a lot of money and could not afford to buy
toys. He seemed to understand it. We
headed over to the dollar store. I grabbed a cart and Aiden loved the fact that
he was able to help pick out what we should give. We picked up coloring books,
crayons, makers, books, puzzles(Aiden picked out the images), cars and generic
Barbie dolls (Aiden picked those). He had fun putting all the stuff in the
cart. Honestly, I think he was more excited about picking out toys in general,
but it’s a start though.
Later that day when Seth asked us what we did earlier
in the day Aiden said,
“Daddy we went to the
store to buy toys.”
“Oh yeah?”
“Yeah! We bought toys because they can’t buy toys because they
waste all their money.”
::facepalm::
Maybe next year little man. Maybe next year.
(the back half of the cart was filled with the diaper bag and coats.)
Rebecca checking out the dolls.
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