It's time to give back...

Recently I have been amused by the discussions of going green and saving. I came from older parents who had lived through WWII and they were raised by parents that had survived the Great Depression. My mother was an incredible seamstress and I remember her talking about the shortage of fabrics and how they would take flour sacks to make dresses out of or cut down dresses to make new ones. As a teenager I thought it ridiculous when my dad sent me back to my room to turn off the light to conserve electricity. I was embarrassed by his desire to put metal containers out when it rained to collect the water for the yard and plants and his habit of saving foil and wrapping paper for later use.

Another great lesson came to me from this though, we all helped each other. If there were someone in the neighborhood, school, town that was having a hard time making ends meet everyone chipped in. Guess it was the advantage of living in small town East Texas.

Today, we are faced with some of the same issues and families are learning to save all over again. They are challenged with sending children back to school and along with everything else - supplies are rising in cost dramatically. To help this, we are sponsoring a School Supply Drive with drop off points at t two properties addresses. We will be distributing to the various organizations throughout Collin County that are in need of supplies.

School Supply Wish List
• Accordion Files • Baby wipes
• Backpacks (for under 7) Binders (2” and 3”)
• Binders with Zippers Book Covers
• Calculators • Colored Pencils
• Manila Construction Paper • English Dictionary
• Spanish/English Dictionary • French/English Dictionary
• Dividers • Dry Erase Markers
• Erasable Pens • Erasers
• Plain Folders with Brads • Glue/Glue Sticks
• Graph Paper • Highlighters
• Kleenex • Lunch Bags
• Black and white Composition Books • Markers
• Handwriting Tablets • Non-spiral Notebooks
• 3 & 5 Subject Spirals • Note Cards
• Paper Plates/Towels • Pencils
• Red Pencils • Pens (Black/Blue/Red)
• Sharpies (Black) • Large Scissors (7”+)
• Watercolors • White Out

Two days, two locations:
Saturday, August 9th, 2:00 – 4:00 Sunday, August 10th, 2:00 – 4:00
6404 Oak Hollow Lane, McKinney, TX 5000 Castle Creek, Plano, TX