What makes a nice day for you? For the Lady-Links, it is something that involves our dear friends and, when chocolate is added, that would make a nice day nicer! My husband couldn’t wait to offer his help when he heard the word “chocolate” in the planning of how the Lady-Links would celebrate national “Have A Nice Day.” Bless his heart (as we say in Texas) wasn’t that “nice” of him to volunteer to count the number of packages of chocolate and to sort them in bags of equal size to give to our dear friends and their husbands or caregivers? (It wouldn’t be “nice” if I reported on whether or not any of the chocolates disappeared! I will leave that to your imagination.) All I can say is that he did have a nice day!!! (He really is helpful and supportive of Lady-Links as are many of the husbands, and he does a great job of making my days “nicer” regardless of whether chocolate is involved or not!)
While my husband was “sorting” the chocolates, I worked on making the stickers that the Lady-Links would use to decorate the sacks which would be filled with the bags of deliciousness!
The next morning, the Lady-Links met to assemble the project COVID style. That means wearing masks, social distancing, working in small groups and sanitizing the tables and chairs.
When we finished decorating and filling the sacks, we shared stories about what else….chocolate! Many of us talked about memories of our mothers teaching us to make fudge or of baking chocolate cakes. Others remembered boxes of chocolates they were given as gifts. Two ladies shared their experiences of touring the Hershey’s factory in Hershey, Pennsylvania and of the wonderful smell of chocolate that seemed to linger over the entire town. It was a special time of sharing stories and hoping that our sacks of chocolate would inspire some of the same types of memories with our dear friends. It was a great way to celebrate national “Have A Nice Day.”
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