Donating to Doorways

On the Thursday following her birthday, we went to Doorways to donate the money and paper towels Mimi collected for her birthday in lieu of presents for herself. It was such a wonderful, positive experience. Wyatt came to personally meet and greet Mimi and thank her for her thoughtful donation. He told her about some of the people her donation would be helping and how it would help them. He gave her a few little info brochures and one of those rubber bracelets. Mimi was very shy and didnt quite seem to know what to say. But on our way back to our car, she was quite talkative saying how she had so many toys and so many people didnt have anything and how on her next birthday she was going to make another donation. It warmed my heart to hear her talk. I'm glad she is appreciative of the blessings in her life, realizing that there are others out there that are struggling to have even their basic needs met and wanting to help.

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