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Acts of Kindness- Giving Others a Heart Attack

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100 Acts of Kindness

Toddler Approved is hosting a wonderful project called the 100 Acts of Kindness Project. I love the idea of JDaniel and I doing things for others between Jan. 15th and Valentine’s Day.Each week she puts up a challenge for you to complete as some of your 100 Acts of Kindness.

This week’s challenge was to give someone a “Heart Attack”. The goal of this challenge is to surprise people you care about. Some people decorated doorways and others crafted special gifts.

What did we do?

We made desserts to take to JDaniel’s grandmas. I am not a baker so each cake went to the oven with a prayer said over it. The surprise for each grandma is that I actually baked something with my cooking helper. (JDaniel)

My mom (JDaniel’s Grandmere) got a chocolate cheery dump cake.

It doesn’t look yummy but, I really was.

Chocolate Dump Cake
Ingredients:
1 box of double chocolate cake mix
2 can of cherry pie topping
2 sticks on butter
Directions:
1. Lightly grease the bottom of a 9 x 13 casserole dish.
2. Spread the cherries evenly on the bottom of the casserole dish.
3. Spread the dry cake mix over the cherries.
4. Cut the two sticks of butter into small pats and spread the over the cake mix.
5. Bake in a 350 degree oven for 45-50 minutes.

My mother in-law (JDaniel’s Nana) got red velvet cake. I didn’t do anything special to make it. I just followed the directions on the box and made butter cream frosting. The cake isn’t really pretty. I think I am going to cut into slices and take the slices on a platter to her house.

 

 

Read.Explore.Learn.- The Firefighters’ Thanksgiving

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Welcome to Read.Explore.Learn.! This meme was designed to be a place for you to share the learning opportunities, crafts, field trips, and other activities you have done this week that tie into children’s books. I look forward to seeing the ways you have learned with and explored books.

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    • Please try to visit at least three of the other people that have placed links below and leave a comment. I will visit each of you and leave a kind comment.
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My Book Tie-Ins of the Week:
 


The Firefighters’ Thanksgiving by Maribeth Boelts is a wonderful story about firefighters that try to make a Thanksgiving meal on a day when they get many, many calls for help.

Lou volunteers to cook the meal if the others will pick up the food on the grocery list. By the time they get the food at 9:00 a.m. they get their first call.

They return to melted ice cream and a messy floor apparently they didn’t have time to put the food away.

Each time they seem to get ahead on the meal the alarm sounds and they are off again.

When they return, they get their equipment ready for the next emergency and try to work on the meal again.

During one of the fires, Lou is hurt and is taken to the hospital. The firefighters return to the station without Lou and to an unfinished meal. They call their families and get ready for the next emergency without hope of a Thanksgiving meal.

Something amazing happens while the firefighters answer the last call. Friends, neighbors and people they have helped arrive and set up a meal for them. They leave them a note saying they are thankful for all they do!

Some of that wonderful meal goes to the hospital to be shared with Lou.

This is an amazing book. Much of the story is told in vivid illustrations by Terry Widener. Terry does a wonderful job complementing Marybeth Boelt’s words by drawing you into the action and events.

The message of giving back to those that have helped you is truly inspirational. It left us wanting to help people that have helped us and our community.

What did we do?

Made Cookies

 


I am not much of a baker, but JDaniel loves to bake. We went to the store and selected the frozen sugar cookie dough for the firemen that work at the fire station near JDaniel’s house.

Created a Turkey Treat Bag

 


We worked together to make turkey treat bags to deliver the cookies in.

Delivered the Cookies

 



Our local fireman was excited about receiving the cookies.

 
 
This post is linked to Serving Others Thanksgiving a link up on this post and Feed Me Books Friday, Link and Learn,  Let’s BEE Friends, La La Home Daycare and It’s Playtime .
 
 

Three Attempts to Make a Dessert

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So, we were asked to bring snacks to our community group on Sunday. It meets from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. to discuss the sermon and it is always nice to  have a snack for the group members and their kids.

We are going to be at the beach on Sunday and won’t be there, but the host family served everyone dinner last week. I really wanted to do something for them.

I forgot to send them a thank you note. I thought this would be an easy way to show them how much we appreciate them. It won’t take long to bake something and take it to their house early.

It has not been easy.

Why?

I made a chocolate Bundt cake this morning and even though I greased the pan it stuck to it. Really stuck to it. I tried to loosen it with a knife, but it remained in place. The only way to get it out was pry it out in big chocolaty chunks.

Jdaniel wandered into the kitchen and commented on how yummy the kitchen smelled. It did smell wonderful. Chocolate cake can really fill a kitchen with a wonderful scent.

Guess we will have cake crumbles for dessert at our house.

Then I thought I would throw together some brownies. I read the directions carefully and again greased a pan. They were so soft and moist that they kept falling apart when I tried to cut them and put them in a cookie tin. Some made it into the tin. They aren’t in nice pretty squares, but they taste wonderful. I tested them out while Jdaniel was upstairs playing.

Guess the ones that fell apart will be brownie crumbles we can have for dessert.

Finally I took out a package of slice and bake sugar cookies I had purchased for a muffin tin project. These had to come together. We didn’t have any other things to bake in the house.

Whew! They came out of the oven looking and smelling great!

Guess we don’t be having sugar cookies for dessert at our house.

I don’t usually have this much trouble with cakes or cookies. I guess God decided what they really need for snack on Sunday is cookies and we really need to have chocolate crumbles.

I think my guys will thank God!

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