What did we do?
Walking for Charity
JDaniel and I participate in the Mission Backpack 5K and 1 Mile Walk. We did the 1-mile walk along with a dog friend JDaniel made. Thank goodness there was a lady who brought the dog along. JDaniel loved walking with him.
Mission Backpack sends backpacks filled with food home with elementary-age children on Fridays. Many of these children don’t have a lot to eat when they are out of school on weekends!
The entry fee we paid to walk will go toward food for the backpacks.
Sending Cards to Troops
Ladybird Lane offers a feature called Crafting for a Cause each month. This month the cause is Operation Cards for Soldiers.
This is wonderful project involves creating Christmas cards or writing an encouraging message in a store-bought card and sending them to:
Operation Christmas Cards
Shrewsbury MA 01545
Cards need to arrive by 28th of November.
JDaniel illustrated pictures in store-bought cards.
I can’t wait to see what you have done. Please link up your post below sharing how you have given to others around Thanksgiving.
Planning to do a charity walk soon. Thanks for the Christmas cards fir soldiers address. We always do that, but didn’t have an address yet.
As a military member who benefited from your holiday cards sent overseas…thank you! It really does make a difference.
We made turkey jars with treats for friends!!
How amazing to send Christmas cards overseas! I’m sure that will make such a difference to so many people!
Great activities! Anna’s school does bedding drive for a shelter, so we will be bringing some extra sheets and pillows after the break. It’s so hard not to be wrapped up in our own little world and reach out to others.
I feel so blessed, that i love opportunities to give back. I stumbled across a blog that was linking people up for donations to help families buy Thanksgiving dinner. I had the opportunity to help out a family in WA. It makes me sad to think that some people can not afford Thanksgiving dinner. I pray that their holiday will be a happy one. I just participated in a card making project in our ward. We provided supplies and women made cards to send to the soldiers. These are cards that they will be able to use and send home to their loved ones. What a better place the world would be if everyone gave just a little. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Such great activities! I’ll see if we can get something linked up.
Great link up! We always tried to do lots of random acts of kindness in November and December, along with donating food to our local food pantry.
That quote by Edward Martin is SO good!
I hadn’t heard of Mission Backpack before, but wow, I’m sure it fills a very vital need. I’ve never thought about how hard the weekends might be for hungry children. Thanks for enlightening me about that!
I love what you’re teaching JDaniel. We helped donate a Turkey to a family who needed one today, though there wasn’t much effort to that. I still need to talk to my children about it. I want them to learn to give back even if it’s just something small. 🙂
So happy to visit again. It’s been a long time! Not sure if you’ll remember me but lots of change in our family, we had triplets!! This year I am so thankful for our miracles and everything our family and friends have done for us. Keep up the good work mama, you are doing great things with JDaniel.
I love this…Thank you so much for your words. You are exactly right! Every year at Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter….lol…pick a holiday…we are out in the community at the Missions and hospitals. We work in the kitchen and sing to long term stay patients in the hospital. I have such a love in my heart for other people. Sometimes I don’t think people that know me understand why or how we can love people so unconditionally…but I know that the Lord has given me this ability and I know I need to use it to help others any way that I can. Keep on doing what you’re doing…spreading the love!! =)
love this post… you are such a great person and so glad you shared this with us