Project 25
SO...it's been a kind of a rough day. I'm sick of this weather. It's December...it's supposed to be at least somewhat cold...or at least cool. Ugh... So today I ran some errands with my mom...broke the cardinal rule and went to Walmart at Christmas... during lunch...I thought at one point that I was going to have a meltdown. Tonight mom and I went to the super Walmart to participate in the Sheriff's office's program called Project 25. I'd never heard of it until last week. It was pretty neat. Basically, you're assigned a child and you go "shopping" for the child. We were allowed to spend $75 for each child. I was pretty impressed...I was figuring it would be around $35 or so. It was pretty chaotic, too. Tons of people were all in the toy department...pretty crazy. Once we finished shopping, we just gave the buggy to "the lady in the blue shirt" and she took over. (Now, I know that all Walmart employees wear blue shirts, but hers ...