Food Drive

It has been quite a week. A few months ago, we decided (as a family) to head up a neighborhood food drive to help a local ministry with their dwindling pantry after the holidays. Due to spring sports schedules, we weren't able to get as much help with the food pick-up as we'd hoped, but since we'd already planned on this date for the drive, we decided to just make it a full day event.

Eli's best buddy and family helped us out with a small amount of grocery bag distribution, but that was definitely the biggest job of the whole thing. The kids and I put in just over an hour Tuesday afternoon, but that barely touched our big neighborhood. Maddux and I still hit a handful of houses each day the rest of the week, before she went to school, and I ended up distributing about 100 on Thursday morning after I dropped her off at school. We WILL plan better for that portion next time.

The morning of the food drive was supposed to be rainy, but we were blessed with a little wind and lots of sun. We tackled the neighborhood starting at 10:00AM and were done before noon! Combined with Eli's friend's family, we collected about 100 bags, which we were able to drive to MUST Ministry immediately. The kids did a great job with loading and unloading the bags, and Eli was excited to be working with his friend (even though they were in separate cars). Hopefully this will be an annual event for us!