A picture book for the soldiers
Yesterday afternoon, as we were packing up our boxes to send to the children of Iraq (via Edmay Mayers & her absolutely awesome ‘distribution network’ , the kids were drawing pictures & writing notes for the soldiers. Annie wanted to make a book for them. I wish that I would have scanned them before sending them off. She started out with a picture of a soldier walking home, followed by a picture of him laying in bed & his hair growing. The next picture, was of his kid & the story that she told with it was that he & his kid went to the pool, then to the park & had a great time.
It was then that I explained to her that the soldiers had to leave their families behind in America, when they went to fight in a war or serve in another country. I could tell that she had never actually thought about that before & realized how sad it was for the kids to be missing their parents & for the parents to be missing their kids.
Both of the little ones really want to send a box out to the soldiers and to the children on a regular basis (Allison observed all this & we talked about it some, but she didn’t really get involved this time - just kind of hanging back thinking about it, I think). They’ve already started picking out what they’re going to send next.
I hope we can help to make their days brighter. I hope that this helps my kids to think more about all of the individual people involved in war and peace and in the world.
One family’s experience sending toys to Iraq
I just came across this lovely post by a mother who, with her children, packed a box of toys to ship off to Edmay in Iraq. The conversation that resulted between her and her daughters is wonderful. Tags: Parenting
Trackback by parent hacks — October 6, 2006 @ 4:31 am
Sending Toys to Iraq
We recently heard about an opportunity to send used toys to children in Iraq. I approached the twins about this with a bit of hesitation. Would they want to part with their beloved toys? I said, “There are boys and…
Trackback by Aaron & Isaac — October 6, 2006 @ 7:26 pm
Thank you all so very much. I am looking forward to the drawing from the “boys” and the book - I will make sure I make a copy of all and sent to you. God bless each and every one of you. /Edmay
Comment by Edmay — October 7, 2006 @ 9:24 am
Thank you all so very much. I am looking forward to the drawing from the “boys” and the book - I will make sure I make a copy of all and sent to you. God bless each and every one of you. /Edmay
Comment by Edmay — October 7, 2006 @ 9:25 am
Hey, could you give me an email address - just email it to me and I have your story book ready to send you. I am so sorry it has taken me this long to get it to you. Please forgive me. Thanks/Edmay
Comment by Edmay — March 13, 2007 @ 10:21 am