I imagined the journey the boxes will take...from my local post office, to a plane destined for Australia, aboard a medical ship to Papua New Guinea and finally loaded onto a truck headed to the rural villages where they'll ultimately welcome new babies into the world in a healthier way. Each of these little kits are soldiers being sent to do good work. Packed with love and care and well wishes for a momma and baby on the other side of the world.
It felt great to be surrounded by a wonderful group of women who set aside time to help to accomplish something small yet powerful. Everything went better than I planned aside from a few rushed trips to the hardware store and me running around like a chicken with its (very sweaty) head cut off :) I learned a lot this first time around and am hoping to make this an annual event.
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| Me showing my lovely Gram the easiest way to cut the sheets of plastic. |
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| One of the groups of ladies busy packing kits. |
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| Cutting string. There was never enough string! |
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| Place cards at each "kit packing" table. |
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| Another group packing kits! |
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| Finally figured out the easiest way to cut the gauze. Team work! |
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| Our "break room". The amazing cupcakes were donated by the talented and generous Theresa Acker. |
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| Our partial group. Many had already left at this point, but we had to get some sort of a group pic! |
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| My momma and me! |
Once I got the boxes home I counted the kits. My little guy Sullivan double checked my work...
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| "Ok, mom, let's see how many you've got here." |
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| "Alright, 212 kits plus 114 kits...equals...326 kits!" |
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| "Wow! That's more than 100 over your goal!!" |
