Great news. Our Birthday Bag program continues to gain momentum and we donated another 10 Birthday Bags in June. We’ve provided special birthdays to 30 children whose families have hit hard times. That is so many more than we thought we’d do in three months. Danny and Sarah had a lot of fun again putting the bags together and this month Sarah matched candle and cake colors as best she could. Good thing I found some strawberry cake mix to go with the pink candles. Danny’s favorite gift was a Bionicle, no surprise there. Hopefully there’s another little boy out there that loves Bionicles as much as he does.
Shirley shared another story with us when we dropped the bags off at the Auburn Food Closet. One of their clients came in and asked Shirley if the food closet had any cake mixes because her young daughter was having a birthday. Shirley told her she had something better and offered the mother a birthday bag. The mother appreciated receiving the goodies and was excited that she would be able to bake and decorate the cake herself as well as wrap the gift before she gave it to her daughter. I was really glad Shirley shared this story with us. One of my goals in making the Birthday Bags was to provide parents with items they need to give their child a special birthday but allow the parent the joy of baking the cake and wrapping the gift. I know how much fun I have baking and decorating birthday cakes with Danny and Sarah and how much I enjoy wrapping their present and then watching them open the gift. The fact that this mom got what I was trying to do made me really happy.
Shirley also shared with us that when a family registers with the food bank they list children with birth dates. When a family comes in the volunteers can see if a child in the family is having a birthday and can offer one of our bags. Shirley said the staff really enjoys having something colorful and fun to offer these families and that it brightens everyone’s day.
A special thanks to Bob and Della and to Angela for helping us with our bags this month. We really appreciate it. I hope everyone has a wonderful July! Thank you all for your support.
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