Important

When we talk about including hygiene items, you probably think of toothpaste, a toothbrush, soap, deodorant. Yet there are two things that you don't think of right away, but your mind breezes right over them. Why? Because you have them so readily available to you you don't think twice about them. Hint: They are the most important hygiene items we include in a box!

How many days can you go without Q-Tips or Chapstick? Especially in the middle of a cold, dry winter? These are two of the very most important things we pack. They give the child the ability to feel fully clean (soap and a washcloth only go so far) and to experience healed lips, many for the first time ever. So many children live with cracked, dry, bleeding lips. When we get chapped lips, we put on chapstick and don't think twice about it. When these children don't have chapstick available, they lick their lips, causing temporary relief, but actually causing more damage by drying the lips out more.

Please consider donating boxes of Q-Tips or a handful of chapsticks or lip balm (solid only, please. Lip gloss is considered a liquid and cannot be shipped).

Hope you are all are having a great Thursday!!

P.S. Happy Birthday, Mom! Hope you have an even better Thursday!