Day 45 - Planning Treats-4-Troops

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
---Thomas Jefferson

Today I did more planning for the big candy collection -- Treats-4-Troops. We nearly doubled our candy collection last year from the previous year, which was the first year, largely because we had collection at two more sites, a high school and a private home.

This year we're hoping for as much as last year or maybe even more - which would be fantastic since it'd enable us to give it to Boatsie's Boxes, the group that does Operation Christmas Stocking and packs the candy in stockings for troops of all faiths. We have 6 main collection sites - 2 high schools and four private homes, and a couple of others that people have arranged.

But I've realized the candy won't come pouring in automatically. It takes work from our group, MoverMoms and from me - from sending out the email messages to coordinating with school officials and individuals whose homes will be collection sites to delivering and hanging signs to doing other publicity as well -- this is truly a group effort and "takes a village" to make happen. Though the economy may have a minor effect, generally speaking it's a pretty simple equation - the more effort we put in, the more candy we collect.