This year we (my co-workers, family and friends) put together a tree with all the trimmings and gifts for the Altrusa International group from Santa Maria. Every year they hold the "Festival of Trees" in our mall...this year there are 51 decorated trees donated by many companies, organizations and individuals throughout the area. The theme of our tree was "A child is born..." ! We decorated the tree with blue and pink ornaments and lots of baby bottles, pacifiers, rattles etc. We also put assorted baby items that any new mom could possibly need under our tree! Now, for the next two weeks the public will come through and look at all the various Christmas trees and buy raffle tickets and pick the tree they would like to win! At the end of two weeks there will be the big raffle and all the trees will be given away (and all the gifts under the trees!)
P.S. I have a soft spot in my heart for the Altrusa International organization because they were the ones that paid for a surgeon to repair Naomi's cleft lip when she was 8 months old in China...God Bless those doctors and nurses!
