Well it's official! My photo of Kayla won the
5 Minutes for Mom Prego Fun With Food Photo Contest! Thank you so much to everyone who spread the word on their blogs, emailed, and voted! I really appreciate it! What a great opportunity this is for me to be able to give the gift card to the local community.
I do have to admit, when I first had the idea to donate the card it wasn't as easy as making that decision and that was that. No, I had an argument with myself, inside my head :) Back and forth it went
Hmmm...there are a lot more people who are in need of groceries then my family then
yeah but it's $500!I know, but I could do something really good with this and give it to a family who is struggling financially right now. Yeah but you're giving up $500!Do you realize what you're thinking about? LOL But in the end, once I had that thought planted in my head I couldn't shake it and knew that's what I would do. Thanks to all of you for helping make this happen!
Last week I came across the story of
Brendan Fraser and his last dying wish. Trust me, you'll need tissues after watching his story. As this 11 yr old boy was losing his battle with leukemia he spent his last days feeding the homeless. How fitting that his quest to feed the homeless came at a time I was planning on donating a grocery gift card. After reading his story, and watching the video, it just solidified in my mind that this was the right thing to do. Even though I had decided to do this before hearing of Brandon's last wish, I'd like to know that, in a way, I'm doing this in honor of his memory too.
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On another personal note; if you could please keep my grandma in your prayers I'd really appreciate it. She fell and broke her hip. She just had a partial hip replacement today and will now have about a 6-wk recovery period in a nursing home. They live in WI, and it's the winter now, so I just pray that it's not too hard on my grandpa going back and forth too. Thank you for your prayers.
I do have to admit, when I first had the idea to donate the card it wasn't as easy as making that decision and that was that. No, I had an argument with myself, inside my head :) Back and forth it went Hmmm...there are a lot more people who are in need of groceries then my family then yeah but it's $500!I know, but I could do something really good with this and give it to a family who is struggling financially right now. Yeah but you're giving up $500!Do you realize what you're thinking about? LOL
But in the end, once I had that thought planted in my head I couldn't shake it and knew that's what I would do. Thanks to all of you for helping make this happen!
Last week I came across the story of Brendan Fraser and his last dying wish. Trust me, you'll need tissues after watching his story. As this 11 yr old boy was losing his battle with leukemia he spent his last days feeding the homeless. How fitting that his quest to feed the homeless came at a time I was planning on donating a grocery gift card. After reading his story, and watching the video, it just solidified in my mind that this was the right thing to do. Even though I had decided to do this before hearing of Brandon's last wish, I'd like to know that, in a way, I'm doing this in honor of his memory too.
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On another personal note; if you could please keep my grandma in your prayers I'd really appreciate it. She fell and broke her hip. She just had a partial hip replacement today and will now have about a 6-wk recovery period in a nursing home. They live in WI, and it's the winter now, so I just pray that it's not too hard on my grandpa going back and forth too. Thank you for your prayers.