I’m a mom of 5. I cherish quiet time. So every morning, my wonderful husband loads up the 4 big kids to take them to school and he takes our 3 year old with him. This gives me about 45 minutes every morning to take a hot bath, have some quiet time, and prepare for my day. After dropping the kids at school, my husband goes through the McDonald’s drive-thru to get me a Coke. He knows how much I love my morning Coke… it’s my version of coffee. And every morning, there’s a handful of ladies that work the drive-thru who know my 3 year old and think she’s the cutest little girl on the planet…and I have to agree. So they talk to her and she blows kisses to them and sometimes they even give her extra happy meal toys. She comes home so happy every morning and that makes this momma’s heart happy.

So, as I made my list of people I wanted to make buckets of Christmas cookies for… the McDonald’s ladies crossed my mind. What an easy way to bless someone and thank them for blessing us? But that made me think… who else have I missed? There are a number of people in my life who I have come to rely on that I don’t know personally… the trash man, the mail lady, the crossing guards.  There are so many people that I can bless without leaving my house! I encourage you to ask God how you can bless someone this Christmas… someone that doesn’t usually make your list. God fed the multitudes with a little basket of bread and fish. You never know what He will do with a small bucket of cookies.