Dec

9

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year…Except When It’s Not.

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I love this time of the year. The lights, the music, the happiness. But I try to make sure and share some of my happiness with those that are having a tough time during this season. For years, my husband and I have sponsored a family or given donations to the Women's Lunch Place in Boston. The Women's Lunch place that provides a safe, comfortable daytime shelter, nutritious food, and services for women who are homeless or poor. We started the year after we got married back in 1998 since the Women's Lunch Place (WLP) is housed in the basement of the church where we were married, and we've continued each year even after we moved from the neighborhood.

After our little bundle arrived, we've been wondering how to give him a little taste of giving back in toddler terms during the holiday season. We have lots of ideas as he gets a little older

  • decorating stockings for ladies at WLP;
  • selecting and delivering the coloring sheets we provide for the kids that attend the holiday dinner at the WLP
  • picking presents for a child of the same age in a family that we sponsor at the WLP

It will still be a work in progress this year as he's still a little too small at 15 months to grasp what we're doing.

In the meantime, one of our favorite brand of shoes, Robeez, is doing something awesome to give back this year.  Robeez will be donating a pair of soft sole shoes to K.I.D.S. with every soft sole purchased through December 23rd. K.I.D.S. is a charity, Kids in Distressed Situations, that helps children in need all over the world.

The little one loves his Penguin Robeez. I think he'll like his new pair of boots too! Take a look at their soft soled shoes - boys and girls. Trust me, they make fantastic gifts. And remember for every pair you buy, a needy child will receive a pair.

How about you? Any ideas for getting little ones involved in Giving Back Projects during this time of year?

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FTC Disclosure: While we love Robeez, this was not my brainchild. Help spread the word!

Live in the Boston area? Click here to find out the many ways you can help the Women's Lunch Place.
Everyone can click here to donate to the Women's Lunch Place.

Nov

18

Anissa Mayhew and the Art of the Gallery Crawl

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UPDATE: Click here to donate to help Anissa and her family.

It's no secret that I'm not sure what I'm doing around here yet. But I've been hanging around twitter for a little bit getting to know a pretty awesome group of people 140 characters at a time. Back in October, the stars aligned in the form of a visit from grandma that allowed me and mr. kimword to attend the aiminglow in the city event sponsored by hp. I got to meet a handful of the people in person that I follow on twitter including Anissa Mayhew.

We had a fairly brief discussion that covered so many topics, but one topic keeps running through my brain and making me laugh out loud. She was on her way to New York City later in the week for another aiminglow in the city event, and she said that someone had given her a list of all of Museums and Gallerys and their corresponding days of the week that they offered wine and cocktails for free. We both laughed at the creativity of a person that would put together that list. A list for some sort of grown up pub crawl...a gallery crawl really. Perfect! Anissa is definitely my kind of funny lady.

I'm writing today because Anissa had a serious stroke yesterday that has her in the hospital. There's lots of thoughts and prayers going out to Anissa and her family and a process has been setup quickly to handle the bucketloads of help that is sure to follow. If you are reading this, please stop and say a prayer and send a wave of goodness to Anissa and her family. They are bound to need every little last bit of it. Then, if you don't know Anissa (or really even if you do), head on over to twitter and read some of the lol-full-o-funny-ness of this very cool lady including her last tweet before this awful event:

One of my favorite funny posts is the play-by-play of Anissa's Twitterstalking of Ralph Macchio. And after scanning the twitter feed this morning, I came across this little doozy that Anissa is going to LOVE.

You can find more Anissa at Free Anissa; at AimingLow; at Mayhew Review; and at Blog Nosh Magazine.

Update: Link to Today Show Segment about Spanking feature Anissa that aired today

Jan

7

Tag. You’re It!

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Blog It Forward - St. Jude's Edition

Let’s Eat Cake, a fundraiser hosted by Melissa Margarita-DiStefano, is coming up quick: Tuesday, February 17th at the Plaza Paramount Hotel in Gainesville, Florida! Let’s Eat Cake is a cake decorating competition with all proceeds going to the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Learn more about the fundraiser right here.

In an effort to make sure spread the word (and raise money), we are continuing this chain-blog (Wait. Is that even a word?)

Want to help? Here’s what to do. Cut and paste this post (HTML code provided below) or create your own new version on your blog and ask others to post it on their blogs. Melissa will donate one dollar to the fundraiser for EVERY BLOG that posts on Let’s Eat Cake this week! With the power of the blogosphere, that can QUICKLY add up! Let’s make Melissa Pay! Once you have reposted it, leave a comment below that you posted it along with the url to the blog. It’s for a great cause and it will be fun to see how far it will go! So lets do it… Lets blog it forward and raise money for a great cause!!!

**Kudos to Unique Designs for creating this fun chain-blog effort and for Thoughtfully Simple and, of course, Kimworld for Blogging it Forward.**

P.S. Ok, Melissa… time to kick in another $1! ;)

P.S.S. If any business wants to help out with a matching challenge, Melissa could use your help!

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