Monday, January 2, 2012

Christmas Cookies 2011

My mentor lives in a small gated community that is filled with kids. We had the great idea to feed them lots of sugar and send them home to their parents in efforts to form relationships with the families.

The best part about doing it in the carport is that bicycle parking was close and convenient!


Here I am icing one for the little guy in the cool blue Buz Lightyear shirt.
All the sprinkles were on the little table.


It was a lot of fun!!! For the people in my neighborhood, I took a gift to the lady who sale tortillas on my corner and thank you notes and bags of candy to the cafe I visit a couple times a week. It was really awesome to see the shocked faces and have people that saw me give the gifts ask who I was. A reoccurring thought this year was, "How do I reflect an extravagant gift giver?" Well it needs to be unexpected, undeserved and from the heart, and importantly not to someone who is going to pay you back or can. I received a gift like that when a national friend picked me up and drove me around to run errands. I hadn't asked her, I hadn't expected it of her, I was stressed out, she is the mother of three young kids so her time is quite valuable, but, with her help, what would have taken 2 or 3 hours took 40 minutes. I guess it doesn't really have to be Christmas nor do you need anything from the store in order to be a giver.