Week 7: Valentine's Day

Our family tradition on Valentine's Day is going to a restaurant for breakfast. For our act of kindness this week, was giving a rose to our waitress (we even gave her a valentine Mad Lib). She was sooooooooooooooooo glad that she almost cried. It was a joy to see her so happy. For one thing I was actually kind of shy. But after she hugged me I was super happy. The people she hugged was Mommy, Grace, and me, Maggie. I am never going to forget that day. That was one of the best Valentine's Day EVER!!!!!!!

Grace getting a hug
from our
waitress

Week 6: Making a Meal

Maggie has apparently given up blogging for Lent....Maybe next post? Last week a family from our school had a child in the hospital. That of course hit home for us and we thought a meal would be the best way we could extend some help. Maggie helped me shop for ingredients and we all stayed up a little later than usual to chop, stir and bake! I found some really great websites with ideas for providing meals for people, but we ended up going with my usual: chicken spaghetti, fruit salad,  garlic breadsticks, and some dirt dessert. I have a feeling that making a meal might be a duplicate post this year! Meals are comforting, full of love, and one less thing for a stressed out friend to worry about! 

Week 5: Books and Birthdays

I'm filling in for Maggie this week! It's a safe bet to say that Maggie probably had fun doing our act of kindness this week. Because last week was Catholic Schools Week, all of the classes had special service projects to participate in. The kindergarten class made cards for residents of Mercy Villa, there was a book drive, a fundraiser for Birthright, and a lot of other wonderful things for the students to participate in. I feel very blessed to have my children in a school where they are learning every day ways to put their faith into action. We took advantage of all these projects this week for our act of kindness. Grace went through our bookshelves and collected items for the book drive and we collected birthday party supplies for children who are staying at a domestic violence shelter near our school. The birthday supply need was an eye opener for me personally. I had never given any thought to that scenario: a kid celebrating their birthday while finding sanctuary away from home. I'm sure wherever you are, this would be a simple but special way to extend kindness to a child and family in need on what should be one of the happiest days of the year, a birthday!