I’ve always wanted to find a way to do a service activity without angering the whole family by skipping out on Thanksgiving dinner and family time. But also with two small children at home, I wanted to find something I could do that would involve them. Turns out a stroke of baby brain caused me to get creative this year and find that activity.

I was going to volunteer at the Thanksgiving feast at Garfield Community Center in my neighborhood, thinking it would be on Thanksgiving day, but called to confirm the need for volunteers, 3 days too late 🙂

So I thought a little harder about something we could do at home, as a family, appropriate for a 2 year old. Holiday Mail for Heroes was that outlet. You send cards (either one out of your own family batch, or like we did a bunch of cards just for them) and send them to the Red Cross for distribution to veterans, military families and active-duty service members at hospitals and installations around the world.

Cora and I busted out the paints and stamps to decorate our cards and we put in a message from the family of Thanks for their military service. It was too messy for me to take a picture on my own and I forgot to have Sean take one, so you will just have to take my word for it, but I look forward to either hosting a card signing party at Thanksgiving dinner next year, or finding a similar opportunity for our involvement.

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