While helping Aunt Tara and Sarina clean out their garage one Saturday morning, I received a call from my sister, Chaela.
Let me interrupt myself for a moment here and quickly mention that our dad is on a year-long deployment to Baghdad right now. Okay, interruption over!
She told me that she and Mom had been talking about doing what they titled "Operation: Iraqi Christmas," which is a little thing Chaela and I did for Dad last time he was deployed over Christmastime. What we did was send Dad a "winterization kit" that contained a dozen or so paper snowflakes, string, and tape, with instructions to hang the snowflakes from his tent's ceiling. After hearing about the struggles many of those working with Dad are facing, they thought it would be a nice little encouragement to send them a bit of white for their Christmas.
Chaela's additional idea was to have the WCS students contribute some snowflakes to send over. Aunt Tara loved the idea, and let me take a few minutes here and there between classes to explain the project to the kids and help them make snowflakes. They all had so much fun, and especially liked the idea that they could send something to someone so far away to cheer them up! I showed the younger kids a picture of my dad to help them realize that their little works of art were being sent to real people.
[Syrie, Santiago, Chris, and Koven wanted me to take a picture of their work.]
[I personally LOVE doing artsy-crafty type things, so I just HAD to add some snowflakes, too!]
In the end, I left Utah with 55 snowflakes in all. It was such a blessing to me to see everyone chip in with such enthusiasm!
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