9,000 Granola Bars

For the past 5 years, our family has helped an organization called Be About Bliss. It is a wonderful non-profit started by a woman in our congregation. We make winter food kits for children in need to take home 2 weeks worth of food over winter break so they don't go hungry. It started out as 300 bags. This year, it was 1,550!

Our family was the granola bar stewards. That means we collected and stored about 9,000 granola bars in our house. Just so you know, that is A LOT of granola bars!

Tonight was the packing party. Phew. We had to bring all the granola bars over to the church. Then, we manned the granola bar station. This was the first time we have manned a station. Wow- it was intense! The girls were total rock stars! They had to put 6 bars into each bag, and the bags came FAST! Far faster than I expected. It was non stop for 2 hours.

Things aren't over yet. On Tuesday I need to go pick up lots of fruit, 1,550 pieces of fruit to be exact. And then on Wednesday we deliver all the food.

I am in charge of our ward diaper drive and sort for our ward Christmas party tomorrow night, but after Wednesday I am officially calling it quits and spending the rest of the month relaxing and enjoying cheesy Hallmark movies with the girls!

This is 1,000 boxes of cereal- wow!

Rice and beans:

Claire's dear friend Hannah came and helped which made Claire VERY happy!

Now I'm tired! We should all sleep very well tonight!