550 Pairs of Socks

That's how many pairs of socks I bought today. My cart runneth over! That's 300 pairs of men's socks and 250 pair of women's. And I won't get to wear a single pair of them. They are for the bags we make for Share Your Christmas. I think the shopping is all done now for this year's distribution for my part. The church ladies are getting together Saturday morning for breakfast and then we will begin sorting stuff and getting it ready to stuff in the bags. All those socks have to be packaged into groups of two or three as well as several other things that need to be wrapped or sorted, or both. Busy days ahead for us.

It was a busy day today, too. I was up and gone by 9:30 to get the socks. I kind of wiped out Wal-Mart when it comes to socks! I also had to buy some gloves for the men. I am able to get those for 50 cents a pair through our local Meeks Lumber Company. They are really good about working with us for Share Your Christmas. Then I had to stop by the preacher's house to get a key to the church. I had planned to take everything over tomorrow night and let some of the youth unload the car but because the forecast doesn't sound real good I decided to go ahead and empty my basement today. Charles helped me load stuff up. The car was stuffed! But then I unloaded all of it by myself once I got to church and got all the doors unlocked to get to the door I needed! It took about an hour to unload everything. Then it was back to the preacher's house to return the key.

Once I got back home it was time to drag out the outdoor decorations and get them put up. Looks pretty tonight. Don't know if I will put up a tree or not. That's a lot of work for just the 2 of us and no body coming for Christmas. Even Valary won't be home. I may change my mind and put one up next week. I have a brand new tree with lights that's never been out of its box. I guess I really should use it.

Then it was time to fix supper--tacos tonight. Now I have a cheesecake in the oven. It's a new recipe. I hope it turns out okay. I was supposed to take a dessert for lunch yesterday and failed to do so. Hope this makes up for it!

Now I have snowflakes to work on. I'll write about these later.