Tis the Season For Sharing

     Seven years ago I started a program where amazing volunteers from my garden club would go to a city school and help fifth grade girls make fresh floral designs for Christmas and for Mother's Day.  It has become a holiday tradition we all enjoy, both students and adults.  Once I ran into a middle school student who had graduated from our school and she asked if we were still doing the program with the fifth grade girls.  Then she told me participating in that activity had been her favorite part of being in fifth grade.  She also told me she hoped we would continue the program so future students would have the same wonderful opportunity that she had.  It is a fun experience that we enjoy sharing with the girls, and they enjoy sharing their project with their mothers or grandmothers.  This year we had 19 students and 10 volunteers.

It is hard to say who enjoys this project more, us or the students.