Fieldtrip! - Teen Humanitarian Project

Fieldtrips are the bomb! One of the greatest things about homeschooling is we can go on lots and lots of fieldtrips. In fact, the local Chevron has become a favorite stop...(hee! hee!) just kidding. We do get a few stares sometimes until we showed the clerks our picture in the paper one day and explained we are homeschoolers. Now we are celebrities! Boy, I'm really cracking myself up today.

Today we went to the Mesa Cannery and bagged beans for the Arizona Food Banks. Don't we look cute in our little hair nets and pretty blue designer gloves? I have to say that I was having a difficult week and was not really in the mood to go down to the cannery today. But, I scheduled the event and was in charge of it so I kind of needed to go...don't you think? Once we got there to help set-up, we all jumped in and changed our attitudes completely. I felt so energized and happy to be serving the needy in our state. Another mom mentioned the same thing. She had also been having a bad week and considered not coming to this event. Like me, she felt so much better after having gone to the cannery.

Marly and Chris had gone to the cannery before with the Mutual, so they were pros and helped everyone else get the hang of the process. Chris kept our bean tubs full and even spent quite a bit of time helping in the cleanup. He does not like to get his picture taken though...