May 2, 2013

in awe of the fireman

The other day my friend, Tessa, and I decided to make some cupcakes with our kids and take them down to the fire station to thank our local fire fighters for their service. The firemen we talked to were really appreciative and offered to let our kids hang out in the fire truck and gave them hats and stickers. I felt kind of bad that we were the ones supposed to be giving them a token of our appreciation and yet, they were being so nice and giving our kids a tour of their fire house. Will was in awe and kind of shy (no surprise there). I had tried to get him to wear his fire hat and fire boots but as soon as I said "boots" he threw this outfit on as fast as you can say "saddle up!" He kills me.
nervous about letting the fire fighter help him down.
We loved doing this so much that we are going to make every Friday a "service day" and do a little service project with our kids. I think it's such a great way to doing something fun but also teach our children a valuable lesson. Does anyone have any ideas of things we could do? We planned to visit an elderly care center in a few weeks and bring some of the residents flowers and spend some time with those who don't get a lot of visitors. I'd love to have some more ideas!

6 comments:

  1. Our fire fighters do the same thing when we take them treats.
    You could visit the animal shelter

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  2. Great idea! I work with elderly people and they will appreciate your visit so much. A lot of them are just so lonely, so it will make their day.

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  3. Great idea! I work with elderly people and they will appreciate your visit so much. A lot of them are just so lonely, so it will make their day.

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  4. Around Christmas time I really wanted to do some type of service in our community with our kids. I found a website that was very helpful: http://www.volunteermatch.org/ You can type in any number of criteria and the site gives you a number of different matches for the type of service you want to do. They give you contact info and everything, it's awesome!

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  5. Let them choose gently used, outgrown toys, books and clothes and make gift boxes for the local crisis nursery. No need to dwell on the reasons for those types of shelters, of course, just the sharing and loving hearts aspect of helping others.

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  6. I love it! You're the best. I'm gonna attempt to copy cat you. After that video you posted, I think I want to make little care packages for homeless people.

    PS. It would be an AWESOME Friday service project for you to hop in your car every Friday and drive to San Diego to come see me :)

    PSS. The crotch grab...boys!

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