Food Drive

Over the past month, our little trio has been running a food drive to benefit Catholic Charities. Our reasoning for running the food drive was to earn a free Disney day. We’re headed to Florida in June and while we’re there, we’re going to take Lola to meet Mickey & Friends for the first time at Walt’s Magic Kingdom. The food drive was fun and easy to facilitate--we’re hoping to run another one again later in the year. Volunteering is so important and is a quality we hope to instill in Lola. This little Disney activity has reminded me just how fulfilling volunteering is. When we tell her about her first trip to Disney, we’re going to tell her just how we earned it--and that makes it even more special.

We put out a request to our family and friends for donations and the response was incredible. So many people donated to our efforts. Mom, Lola and I headed out to East Chicago, Indiana to drop it off this morning. When we dropped it off, the woman who runs the pantry estimated we were donating over 300 pounds of food!

So these pictures are for the many of you that donated--you know who you are!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!


Yesterday, Mom & I went to Sam's to buy food with the money that had been donated--we were able to fill up the trunk of the car.
The back seat was filled with the bags of food that had been donated. Lola kept them company on the trip over.
And a few of Lola, of course. Could a post be complete without her?! I was putting the camera in my bag and asked her to say "cheese". She beamed and showed me all her pretty white teeth.