School Supplies!

From the time I was just a wee child to even now, I have loved purchasing school supplies. My mom and I would go out shopping every year and pick out the long list of items that I had to have for school and it was my most favorite time of year. (Except when school actually let out for the summer!) I'll still occasionally walk through the school supplies isle just to get that feeling back of walking through the store with my mom.

Now that I am all grown up and I obviously don't have children, I get to enjoy buying for OTHER kids. Every year my company adopts several children from low income families and we buy school supplies for them. Brynn and I adopted two children this time around. A 6th grade little girl named Erika and a 3rd grade little boy named Frederick. We get a list of all the school supplies they need for the year as well as clothing & shoe sizes if they need them or if we request them.

I LOVE doing this, I love going out and buying the school supplies and little shirts & pants for the kids. It always makes me feel so good that even though I'm not providing for one of my own, that some child out there is getting what they need to get through the school year.