The holidays are over, and we’re left with a warm glow.
We continued with our office tradition of giving back and supporting our local community. Each year, we collect monetary donations from the Kindle employees, and the Kindle Communications Partners match our donations. Everyone’s generous donations allow us collectively to be generous with those less fortunate. We adopted 5 families through St. Vincent De Paul on the south side of Chicago, and bought holiday gifts for each member of the family. The day of shopping at Target was exciting –12 shopping carts overflowing with holiday presents for over 20 people. We even got our own check-out lane at Target!
The shopping completed, we decided that the only way to get the multitude of presents wrapped in a timely manner was to have a wrapping party! One Wednesday before Christmas, after the office closed for the day, we put on our Santa hats, turned on the holiday lights in the office, cranked the Christmas music on the ipod, got out the wrapping paper and tape, and went present-wrapping crazy.
Our goal was to wrap as many presents individually as possible so the kids would have lots of presents to open on Christmas morning. With 25 Kindle employees and friends wrapping multiple holiday gifts for 21 people, the mayhem ensued – paper flying, ribbons curling, tape everywhere.
