Last night for family home evening we did some selfish service. We went to the store to buy stuff for teachers. School teachers these days have to either buy some stuff they need in the class room or they have to do without. Stuff that we take for granted like paper clips, pens, post-it-notes ect. So there is a group that is collecting "teacher boxes" that have this kind of stuff. We put together 10 of these boxes last night. We all went to the store split up and gathered what we needed. It was fun and pretty quick. Then we came home and put them in the 10 boxes and tonight we'll write thank you notes to each teacher then wrap it up like a present. We then deliver them to the group in Tempe and they will deliver to the needed places. I said it was selfish because four our trouble (and our $$) we get 10 tickets to Disneyland. Yeah. so we get to go in June. should be fun but I don't know what we'll do with Derek and Anny since they aren't going to get to go... (maybe Anny will). Anyway it was fun for the kids to do something for others. They knew exactly why we were doing it because they have the same problems at their schools. Marly took half a ream of printer paper today because her school is out. The funny part was Grandpa Whetten couldn't understand why we needed to do this. We had to explain to him a few times that teachers don't get these kind of things that they should because there is no money in the school district to pay for this stuff. He just couldn't get it... oh well he helped us a lot setting them up anyway. He said "Where are these going?" I said "there are some schools that need supplies for the teachers" he said "why" I said "I guess they don't have the money for the teachers to get this and the teachers shouldn't have to pay for stuff like this out of pocket" and he looked at me like all confused and said indignantly "like where?" I didn't know what to say so I said "I don't know... maybe poorer neighborhoods like South Phoenix"... That was probably not a good thing to say because I really have no idea where and we don't have to know the group we take them to has to know. I felt bad about naming an area but oh well. I've been there many times for football and it does look like they could use a little help, I'm just sayin'
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The reason dad came to help (mom was sick) was so that they could get in to Disneyland and take care of the little ones since Derek will be too little to leave at home. They are our babysitters, they will be taking care of naptime and putting babies to bed early so we can stay out late.
Dad is still living in that day and age when teachers went to a fully stocked supply closet and got what they needed from it aka-1950's. He did not really have any connection to what was going on in the schools when his kids were in school, except for sports. He still lives in his own little world in lots of ways. But we still love him for it.
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