Last year I read a few different blog posts via Pinterest about a great concept used to celebrate the Christmas season and Advent called R.A.C.K. - Random Acts of Christmas Kindness. It's really a simple concept with huge payoffs for everyone involved. Each day a random act of kindness is assigned and then you perform the tasks throughout the month up to and including Christmas day! Today I started mine and I'm excited to go through the month bringing smiles to peoples faces.
I got a few packages of simple paper treat bags and numbered them (when we get home from our Thanksgiving trip next week I'll hang them as a kind of advent calendar). Each day I'll pull the task out of the bag and go forward getting it done! I think that this will be a great tradition for us to do every year to keep Christmas as a holiday of compassion and love instead of "wants" and commercialism. Throughout the month I'll post and share with you how my R.A.C.K. is going and I'll post pictures to share various activities as well. The first picture above is going with candy canes to be taped to ATM's around town, and below I've been working on Christmas cards to hand out to a local nursing home with some gifts and crafts we'll be making this week.
Happy Monday, everyone. Enjoy your first week of December wherever you are!
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