Making it a Green Christmas!

Posted on 09. Dec, 2010 by Marguerite in Uncategorized

If you are stressed out this holiday season and haven’t even begun to get all those toys your little one has to have, and on top of it all trying to make this season more meaningful than last year’s, try doing it green! This year we tried something new for us at the Co-op and it was a great hit. We made our annual grown-up Christmas party a “cupcake exchange” and “toy trade” event. Each person brought one dozen cupcakes to decorate and exchange and 5-10 slightly used toys to trade. We had a blast making reindeer cupcakes and seeing which toys our little ones would like this year for Christmas. Whatever wasn’t selected (not many has been brought to support the Battered Women’s shelter. This way not only has my son’s Christmas present “shopping” been done, but there weren’t any lines or anything to contend with. And those toys that they grow out of so quickly are going to be recycled to someone else who it is now NEW to. This all done while eating cupcakes and having grown-up nog! Thanks Co-op families for helping us to make this year’s season a green holiday season!