So, NaNoWriMo is managing to turn me into the world's worst blogger for the month of November, but, Operation Christmas Child really did happen this year. We had a trickle in sort of a week, a fairly busy Sunday with several churches that brought in hundreds of boxes each, and then a Monday that never stopped moving.
Something like 5,000 boxes came in between 9am and 7pm yesterday.
Luckily, they were mainly in shipping cartons already, and we had some very amicable church staff who were willing to let us add a little physical labor to their day!
The news came down, as did an entire preschool full of children. My fourth and fifth graders came down to pray over the boxes on Sunday morning. At least three different high school clusters came to bake cookies and pray and haul shipping cartons. More volunteers than I could keep track of came down and made the activity center their temporary home. People donated enough "loose stuff" to build dozens and dozens of boxes. Someone built us a snowman who was carrying a box of his very own. We fit twenty-two boxes into shipping cartons and then regretted it the moment it came time to heave them into the truck. And, we got thoroughly sick of the shoebox videos running on repeat.
11,410 boxes ended up leaving here by the time it was all said and done, which put us at just about seven hundred over last year's collection. Whoot!
And, now, we have a day or two to breathe - and sleep - before Thanksgiving and then Nutcracker.
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