Christmas at Work

 Christmas is a busy time at work for our organization because we host a toy drive at the hospital and a few other events.  Today, I am sharing some pictures from those events and our office decor.

My co-worker and friend I share an office space with is pretty firm on not decorating for Christmas until after Thanksgiving.  I honored her request, but then we did decorate our space to make it festive for the month.

This is my desk...

This is the tree in our space.  The other desk you see is my co-workers.  We have another tree in our entrance area.

This is the view from my desk, which is pretty simple with garland and lights and stockings.

This is in our conference room area.

We did a gift exchange among my co-workers and this Trader Joe's chocolate was one of my gifts.

Earlier this month, we partnered with the hospital and provided breakfast for families at the children's hospital and there was an appearance by Santa, the Chick-fil-A cow and others. I recruited Brook to come help serve.  Here I am with 3 of my co-workers (one was off this day).

Brook and I :)

With Santa and the cow 

Brook came back to the office with me and volunteered for the rest of the day, so it was fun to have her at work with me.

Last night, we had our annual toy drive and served dinner to families at the hospital.  It was a 12 hour day for me, but it was a good day.

This is a snapshot of serving dinner.  I am standing in the green sweater talking to a family who speaks Spanish.  I was basically trying to tell them I don't remember much of my Spanish!  My husband and daughter are in the picture and they came to help serve because we needed extra volunteers tonight. 

 

In another room down the hall, we distributed approximately 1000 gifts for kids in the hospital and their siblings.  

There is so much hurting at this time in so many ways.  Seeing the hurt of families in the hospital is one of those things and I am humbled to be able to be a small part to serve these families.  

I am wishing you all a Merry Happy Christmas weekend!