On December 13, we asked the Adult Organ Skaters at Romp’N'Roll, in Glenshaw, PA, to assist us in a fundraiser for the Pittsburgh Area Nursing Home Chaplaincy. We were delighted at the response, since about a dozen of them joined our effort, not only skating, but contributing on the spot! Father Ray was especially helpful, and our own original Mileposters skaters were of course indispensable! We got a total of 815 laps altogether. The photo below shows only five of our helpers, since the rest of them were camera-shy. By December 16 the kids and I had wrapped up 136 appeal letters and mailed them — a new record for a speedy campaign, for which we thank God!
December 11 was Games Night, and we used our own Jenga game for the first time. (Last month we borrowed one from the Pilgrims; the kids had played it with them before.) We had a super cliffhanger tower at the end, with the whole works incredibly teetering on two center blocks stacked in the same direction! It didn’t last forever, of course, but I did get the picture below first!
On December 18 we went Christmas caroling; our first stop was the customary call at the Woods Run fire station. This year they let us pose for a picture with a fire truck! After caroling, instead of McDonald’s, we went to Wendy’s.
