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I have been participating in the Toys for Tots program for many years. This year, Cameron is able to understand more about how he can make a difference in the lives of others (or at least I think he understands.)

Last year, in January, I hit up the Target after-Christmas toy clearance. If you don't know about this fabulous sale, you need to know about it! It's amazing. Target has to clear out their overstock so they mark down their toys by 75%. This makes for some AMAZING deals. Last year I stuffed two carts full of toys. I did this because we attend an obscene amount of birthday parties throughout the year, so I just stock up ahead of time.

Since it has been a year and I still had a closet full of toys that hadn't been given away, Cameron and I decided to donate them to our local fire department for the Toys for Tots drive. I explained to Cameron that there are many children who don't have a lot of toys to play with like he does and so it would be great for us to give them all of our unused toys for Christmas. He thought it was a great idea as well and said to me "We'll give them these toys for Christmas and they will be SOOOOOO happy...they'll say 'thank you sooooo much Cameron P!' "

So we packed up the entire back half of the suburban with toys. Not even kidding...TONS of toys. We headed over to the fire department and they buzzed us in. We were the first to drop off toys and they were so happy with our load! Cameron even got a little V.I.P. treatment.

Check out the shirt! One of the fireman asked when we were unloading the toys, "would you like to see a firetruck?" You should have seen Cameron's eyes light up!


Gabby got to check out the engines too.