Our Season of Service

Inspired by some friends of our family, the Tucker family has decided to try a new way of exchanging Christmas gifts beginning in 2013. We hope it will become a wonderful family tradition. For years, the six Tucker children, their spouses, and their parents exchanged gifts every Christmas, but in 2012, we decided the gift-giving tradition may need a change since we are all so blessed and in need of truly nothing. We decided we needed to find a better way to celebrate the true Christmas spirit.

We suggested that we each perform acts of service in the name of the sibling whose name we were assigned at random. Our service will be kept a secret until Christmas Day.

Names were drawn for us and and we were notified privately of the person who should inspire our service. On Christmas Day, we reveal who we were given and how we chose to serve by posting our stories on The Tucker Family Season of Service blog.

We hope this tradition will help us focus on serving our communities and each other during the annual celebration of the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

We invite you to come back to our blog on Christmas morning to read this year's service.

Sunday, December 25, 2016

2016 Service for Sarah

This year for Christmas I had Sarah's name. Grayson was making his debut this year so I thought the perfect service would be something that had to do with children. As a parent, finding a babysitter can be one of the hardest things. You want someone you trust and you do not want to spend all your money on the babysitter and have nothing left for the actual date. I decided to try and babysit once a month for a family so the parents could go on a date. I didn't charge them for the babysitting. I also provided dinner for the kids so the mom would not have to worry about feeding the kids and cleaning up before the date started. 

 My kids really enjoyed this service also. It meant they got more late nights with friends than normal. Some of the people I offered this to could never make a date night happen (super sad), so I babysat for the mom during the day so she could have a child free shopping trip, take a nap, clean her house in peace, read a book or whatever she wanted. 

 I really enjoyed this and plan to continue to try and do this through 2017 also. Hopefully you guys make it to Utah so I can watch Grayson!!!!!

 Love, Kristen
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  1. GinaDecember 25, 2016 at 10:25 AM

    Kristen, this is so great! I love that you provided babysitting! Dating our spouses is so important and being able to put that relationship first with one on one time is inperative. I imagine you don't know it, but you likely greatly improved relationships.

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