birthday bags

As one of our Lent activities we made birthday bags and delivered them to a local food cupboard. We gathered some of our gently used books and frames. We went to the Dollar Store (or as Blaise kept calling it the Dollar Bill Store) and bought cups, plates, napkins, cake mix and frosting (chocolate cake seems to be the winner), coloring book and crayons.

The boys had a lot of fun making a card to go and putting all of the items in the bag. Ambrose kept commenting that the gentleman who took the bags (one of the workers at the food cupboard) just kept saying 'thank you' and smiling so big.