Hello Cuties! We had a great family reunion and although we had a lot that weren’t able to attend, we still had 83 in attendance. I ended up making and giving 25 gifts. The 5 runners in my postings here along with vinyl hand sanitizer holders, cosmetic bags, in the hoop zipper bags, coaster sets, tall clear vinyl bag (I put hairspray can,tall items when traveling), and some fold over pouches that have clear vinyl compartments. They seem to all like their gifts.
I have to tell you this. I knew there was no way I could make a gift for every woman there. I just kept sewing and ended with 25 gifts because I thought that was a good number and also I was running out of time.
When I put all the ladies names in a bowl to draw I told my son-in-law and my hubby I felt really bad because only a very few would not get anything.
However, before we had the drawing 3 women left. I had told my cleaner girls their name was going in the drawing too because even though they received a runner they EARNED those.
Ashley drew the names and I had all the gifts numbered and a list of the gifts with the numbers. As she drew a name for the first gift I was able to find gift #1 on my list and in my box. The same with each name afterwards.
Ashley didn’t know the gifts were a few short but I had told her to announce that everyone may not receive a gift. We have no way of knowing how many women would show up. She also must have forgotten I put the 3 cleaners in the drawing on purpose because when she drew Cindy, Vickey and her own name she threw those away. If she hadn’t the outcome would have been different.
Can you believe I had exactly enough for ALL the ladies. Talk about God blessing the giver! I was so happy no one was without a gift!!!
But NO pictures to show of any with their gift😣 I do have a few of the day though that others shared.
I just wanted to let you know how happy we were to be together again. I missed our family!
Have a great day!❤️Toogie
This year one of the nephews and his wife donated the cost of the meat. We still donated money for the cost of supplies Ashley picked up and I think we came out better than the cost. I didn’t tally it up but I told the niece Starla ( another teacher) that was accepting the donations to give whatever was left after paying the supplies to Josh for the meat. We donated $20 and my oldest grandson Caleb gave me $25 for his donation so I’m sure even though Josh wanted to donate the meat, he probably got his money back.
We are too old to do all that now so the younger ones need, and some are, to step up and take over.
We also have tomatoes I have to do something with