Tis the Season to Give

Ok so this is a little bit late, but I wanted to share the experience anyway cause it was amazing. So first off, I am dating an amazing guy right now. He is amazing, and that is about the only way I know how to describe him :) He brought up the idea that we should do a service project as part of our Christmas Season this year. So we brainstormed together and came up with this idea:

First we sent out a sheet the Sunday before Thanksgiving advertising homemade rolls for Thanksgiving. They were a little bit pricey, $5 for a dozen but we explained that all the proceeds would be going to a good cause: Sub for Santa

Once we saw how many people signed up I started to get really nervous. We were going to have to make over 300 rolls, and they would have to all be made the day before Thanksgiving. I'll be honest I started to get more than a little stressed as I tried to figure out how we (just the two of us) were going to do this. Jordan calmed my nerves by making a timing chart and I started to feel better.

And so it began. We started mixing dough Tuesday night at around eleven, until 3am. Here is a picture of part of the dough while it was rising.

Here is Jordan, doesn't he look happy?! He had so much fun rolling the dough into balls, and placing them in the muffin tins.

After all the dough had risen we got to sleep for 3 hours and began the baking process. All in all it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. It was a lot of fun, and I dare say that Jordan and I make a pretty good team!! Camilia graciously offered to cook some rolls at her house. She spent all morning on Wednesday cooking! Camilia you are the best! Thank you soo much!

By 3pm on Wednesday we had made, cooked, and delivered over 300 rolls! Here is picture of all the rolls. I honestly can't believe we made that many in 15 hours!!

We ended up making over $200 dollars. So the next step was to apply to the Sub for Santa program. We decided we could afford to help out three children. A couple weeks later we got our family and began shopping. It was a lot of fun to pick stuff out for them, and also really stressful because we didn't exactly know what they would like. But we still had a good time shopping.

Then we got to deliver them to the family. They were very gracious and thankful, and we were just excited that we got to help! It was truly an amazing experience. I have always wanted to help with Sub for Santa but have never done it until now. I just want to say thanks to Jordan (even though he can't read this) for being proactive with me and being willing to cook 300 rolls! He is Great!