A Small Victory

The boxes of school supplies and baby items for Kids of Katrina and other assorted sundry are on their way to Texas and LA.

Thanks to uship.com, a wonderful driver named Tim (and his cousin, whose name I forget, I'm sorry!) came to fetch the packages late this afternoon. Tim and his cousin couldn't have been nicer guys. They loaded the truck with help from my husband and by 6:30, they were back on the road again (I think they were making a little stop at Krispy Kreme first).

I'm going to work on making a list of everything we sent, plus every single person who helped, donated money and or supplies or provided a needed service.

Trish and Dave will let me know when the stuff arrives at its respective destinations.

Some pictures from the load up today:

click each for bigger.

Also today, it was decided - thanks to reader Jeanne - that the supplies I am buying from schoolkidz.com will go to the Burger Center in Austin, where about 150 kids displaced by Katrina will be starting school next week.