Helping Others!

 

Join me in helping others!

 

The Piñon Project

The Piñon Project Family Resource Center helps over 3,000 families and their children in SW Colorado every year.

Piñon Project programs include an Early Learning Center, early childhood education and parenting programs, youth services programs (Mentoring and Sources of Strength), Emergency Assistance Coalition (homelessness prevention), Access to Health programs (Eating Smart Being Active) and Family Programs (Successful Families).

Mancos Giving Tree

Christmas trees displayed around town have ornaments to choose from. Ornaments provide the option to buy gifts, food, or help pay utilities for families in need.  Drop off gifts or checks at my office, Colorado Ranch & Home Realty 145 Grand Ave in Mancos.

Salvation Army

Have you put money in the red kettles?  The money raised here in Montezuma County stays here and helps with food, utilities, clothing and emergency shelter. 970-564-4228.

Good Samaritan Center

Can you put together a nonperishable food box?  The Good Samaritan Center food pantry is located in the “pink building” at 30 N Beech Street Unit C, in Cortez, CO. They are open 12pm-2pm Monday-Thursday each week for curbside pickup of food boxes.  For more information go to goodsamscortez.org

Turning our hearts toward home!  MancosHomes.com

Christmas Memories

What are some of your best Christmas memories?  Were they when you were a child?  Was it a toy or an experience?  For my family, Christmas is all about tradition and being together.

As a child, my grandmother Nanny would pull up in her old white Ford car to our back door and pop the trunk to unveil it stuffed with presents.  The excitement my two sisters, brother and I had was pure joy.  Of course Nanny would come with her famous Christmas Coffee Cake for Christmas morning.  Christmas Eve was celebrated with  a traditional Mexican dinner of queso, chips, guacamole, red & green enchiladas, tamales and lime sherbet for dessert.  YUM!!   It was always followed up with opening one Christmas gift.

Christmas morning, we would wake around 5 and get my parents up.  We opened our stockings and then Daddy, would play Santa and hand out the presents. We opened one at a time, taking the time to experience each persons joy while they opened their present.  Mom would prepare a wonderful dinner of shrimp cocktail, artichokes, prime rib, baby potatoes, rolls and for dessert a cranberry torte.

This year my sisters and brothers came back home.  We all hadn't been together for Christmas in decades.  Mom is 88 now and her health is failing. Daddy died two years ago so we have all changed roles.  My sisters and I cooked then after dinner husbands, boyfriend and my brother cleaned up.

Christmas Day before dinner we went on a hike up Bernal Mesa, quite the hike, while Mom and my daughter stayed inside.  Spending time together reminiscing about the past, hope for the future, and scrambling up to the top of the mesa will not be easily forgotten

Christmas for me is about being with my family and remembering that my life is centered around my anchor, Jesus Christ.

May you hug and tell the people that are close to you that you love them.