Operation Christmas Child

For the second year in a row, we took part in the German version of Operation Christmas Child. This was last year's as I forgot to take a picture but it's such a good cause I wanted to blog about it again.

Basically you take a shoe box and fill it with gifts for a child who otherwise wouldn't have many presents. The project came to our attention through Isabella's nursery and you have to specify whether the gift is for a boy or girl and what age. I always go for a girl Isabella's age.

We filled it with a variety of fun things and then wrapped it up. There was a huge tower of boxes at the end of hand-in day. So many more happy children. Our first bit of Christmas cheer.

Christmas Cards

Since living in Germany, I've always made my own Christmas cards. I enjoy it and had some new ideas this year but with everything going on, I haven't had time and I'd rather get something out on time than nothing at all.

I decided that if I was going to buy cards, they should be charity ones and promptly sought out three charities with cards on Amazon - Alzheimers, Cancer UK, and Strokes. Unfortunately, when I went to check out, it would have cost more to have the cards sent to me than it would to buy them in the first place.

Finally I went on the German Amazon site where the choice of charities is much more limited, and ordered three packs for children's charities.

Nine Days of Nice Update

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As I mentioned in the Saturday update, over the next couple of weeks, I am taking part in Sarah von Bargen's 'Nine Days of Nice'.  On Monday, I posted a review of one of our favourite restaurants in Bremen - Tendure.  It's one thing I must do more of as we really like to travel and document our travels but never seem to leave enough positive feedback. 

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Sarah's second task was to pay off someone's 'layaway'.  First off, I had to google this to see what it was but even then, I don't know of any German companies that do this and couldn't find a way to do it online, so I decided to change it up a bit.  I wanted to donate to charity, and I wanted it to be a reliable charity that I don't regularly donate to.  After a little research, I donated a chalkboard to a school in Burundi.

I'll be working on step three later today!