For the first three weekends of December, I held The Kids Christmas Shoppe, which operates as a place where students can shop for their parents’ Christmas gifts at no cost. Everything – the gifts, wrapping supplies and decor is donated. This is my third year of opening the Christmas Shoppe. We found ourselves without a place to open this season. I contacted other nonprofits in Milton. I contacted several churches in Milton. Some just didn't have the space, which is understandable, as they have their own Christmas programs. Sadly, some of the larger, more accommodating Milton churches and nonprofits never replied to me. But that's when the Christmas magic started.
Ginny Weeks, right here in Milton, opened her home to us to hold The Kids Christmas Shoppe. I still shake my head in awe; her home is lovely. Not somewhere one would think was a place for students, pre-K through 12th-graders, to shop! Yet, shop they did. About 300 students from all over Delaware, Philly, Maryland and New Jersey shopped independently for gifts for their parents, chose wrapping paper, bows, gift bags, name tags, tissue paper and Christmas cards on their own to add to their gifts, that were then wrapped by some of the best wrappers Santa could have provided! All possible because my spectacular village stepped up for the students, making this a free event yet again! But this would not have come to fruition without the generosity and kindness of Ginny Weeks opening her home to us. She is everything that Milton and Christmas spirit are all about.
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