Wrapping t-shirts for Santa

Every year, Santa sends notice that we PAW elves are to wrap t-shirts for every child in our school. He does this because we have amazing kids that deserve a little extra for a job (or 800) well done.

   This year, we decided to do this at my house. It gives us a chance to celebrate our newfound friendships outside of the schoolhouse walls. There are a little over 800 kids in our school, so we had a daunting task ahead of us as we began at 9:00 am this morning. There were mountains of red and white cubs t-shirts to fold, roll and tie.

Two hours into the fun, we had our pot-luck brunch of ham, cheesy grits, Mexican casserole, meatballs, along with fruits, cheeses and dessert of Hello Dolly and lemon cookies. I have to say we have really great cooks among our PAW moms. Everything was fantastic! By the way, cheesy grits are awesome!

After lunch, we were onto round two of the task ahead. There were a few little ones, being as some of us still have pre-school age kids, so we spent some time wrangling each others kids. The surprising thing is, play dates such as these afford us with some valuable work time that we wouldn't have without our children to distract each other, so it worked out quite well. I have to say, one of my favorite things about volunteering for the school is watching each others children grow and learn and interact. Becoming best friends as we spend our day's wrapping Christmas presents and planning classroom parties.

As 3:00 came near, we realized that, although we made a sizable dent in the mountain of shirts, we still have a long way to go. We are a little over halfway through the task. Truthfully, I'm glad. That means we get to do it again next week! I'll see you all on Monday, 9:00 am. Joe and I will do what we can this weekend as well.

Thank you to the following:

Belinda Harrell
Tracy Lindsey
Heather Byford
Stephanie Kocerak
Brandy Duncan
Crystal and J. Oliver
Andrea Fitzgerrell
Kim Asaro

Sincerely,
Kimberly Asaro
PAW President