I always gave out valentines cards to everyone...same thing...I felt bad for the kids who didn't get many. The few that some kids got were from the kids that gave them to everyone...usually me. (and my best friends) Since I moved here, I've made Christmas cards because that's a very big thing over here...making cards. But it's too expensive to send cards overseas to everyone, so I usually send an email Christmas card, and just send real cards to people without email, but I've forgotten every year for the last few until it was too late. Now I have a whole supply of handmade Christmas cards, so DD and I are going to sell them at the school's Christmas market. In the past, the Christmas activity has been dinner for the kids...they dress up, parents are asked to make something and bring it to the school to share with their class. But the parents always complain that they have to do the work, but don't get to enjoy any of it as it's strictly a drop your kid off with the food and then pick them up later. So this year, they've decided to do a market and ask parents or community members to donate things to sell and the money will be used to buy a play station for the children's wing of the hospital for the kids who are bed-ridden, and the rest will go towards new playground equipment at the new location whenever that gets built. (which I'm hoping will be a few years yet so my kids never have to go there.) So DD and I are going to sell our crafts.
