My heart is full as I type this new post. I admit, I was feeling super patriotic on Tuesday then on Wednesday I kind of struggled. I'm so thankful I had this great experience to feel patriotic and give of myself. I needed to serve... and how often do we actually express our gratitude to our armed forces? I have to thank my absolutely wonderful cousin, Leslie, for sharing this experience with me and encouraging me to join with her! I have had such a great time and can't wait for my next opportunity to say THANKS to some of our military men and women serving overseas. Hopefully many of you will join us!
You see, my cousin recently got involved in an organization called Operation Baking Gals. Baking GALS (GALS stands for Give A Little Support) is a group of volunteer bakers who bake and ship homemade goodies to our heroic troops that are currently deployed. Each soldier is “Hosted” by a blogger, and potential bakers are “recruited” from the bloggers own site as well as the GALS site. Each Host recruits between 20-25 bakers, meaning LOTS of goodies get delivered to our soldier…so many, in fact that he or she has plenty to share with their fellow troops! Our team is FabFour - PLEASE join us for the next round. You will not regret it!!!
We had a great time packaging up our cards, pictures, pumpkin chocolate chip cookies and brownies! Hopefully they arrive fresh and whole and put some smiles on our service men and women!
3 comments:
Ok! So I am bawling because I am So proud of the girls in my family!
My two neices, my sister and my daughter all are in the Fab Four(maybe others that I don't know about). What a special way to teach service and have that great feeling of giving this time of year.
Way to go Gals! Next time hoepfully, my thumbs will have healed and I can participate. I was thinking it would be a PARTY to involve the grandkids 5 and above.
I am proud of you Michelle for giving your kids this great opportunity!!! Way to go Joseph, Mahlia and Jackson! I love you!
Great post Michelle, I'm so glad you had a good experience! I will guarantee you that you will provide smiles on the receiving end. Love the little notes included! Get ready for Round 5!
Michelle,
I can picture you coming to the door with flour all over your clothes and face saying, "I'm BAKING!" You are amazing and this sounds like a phenomenal project. I just had a few minutes and pulled up a couple blogs. I will have to call!!
Are you going to be around during Christmas? We will be up for a week, so let me know--the kids loved playing together!
Lots of love,
Jessica Bennett
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