Thursday, December 25, 2008
Random Acts of Kindness
I accepted Mom It Forward's "Happiness Headlines" challenge this season to perform random acts of kindness. I chose these two activities that involved my kids in hopes that they would catch the spirit of the season and learn to think more about giving than receiving.
- Bake reindeer cookies for neighbor gifts.
- Make candy cane notes to thank people for spreading holiday cheer.
Below is a picture of the candy cane thank yous we made. Nope! Your eyes don't deceive you. We kept this project simple, taking hand-written stickers and slapping them on candy canes. We kept these in a bag and took them with us on all of our errands this holiday season. If you don't know Red Rover and Chatterbox, they are both pretty shy. So, at first it was difficult for them to approach and give gifts to strangers. But, one experience seeing the joy it brought to others and they were hooked. They caught the Christmas spirit and started looking for ways to spread the holiday cheer!
Enjoy and Merry Christmas!
Picture courtesy of Kristin from The Sassy Mom Shoppe blog.Mom It Forward is an online community of women who are changing the world one mom at a time and having a lot of fun doing it. This amazing group focuses on strengthening women with the goal to improve families, better communities, and ultimately and positively impact the world. For more information on becoming part of this community, please visit momitforward.com.
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December 26, 2008 at 9:57 AM
what a great idea!!!
December 26, 2008 at 10:35 AM
I love your cute cookies!!!!... I can't wait to use my new Flip! I also can't wait for all the videos you post from here on out!!!
December 26, 2008 at 6:39 PM
I love the candy cane idea. How unique!
December 26, 2008 at 9:02 PM
You're doing Wonderful Things, ya know!
The Candy Canes were a fun were so much fun to hand out....What next for GNO Utah?
December 26, 2008 at 10:10 PM
I too, will be stealing that candy cane idea for next year~
December 29, 2008 at 11:47 PM
That's too cute! Love the cookies!
December 30, 2008 at 6:42 AM
Love these cookies and the video! Red Rover is a great chef for sure :-)
Sorry I've been 'absent' in the blogging world lately - had a vacation and just got back. See you tonight!
December 31, 2008 at 7:22 AM
What a great idea and so so cute!
December 31, 2008 at 9:08 PM
Totally unrelated, but in case you missed the tweet, I have nominated you for a Lemonade Blog award.
Your turn to pay it forward, or is that Mom It Forward? :)
January 5, 2009 at 4:37 AM
Happy New Year! I hope you received some Random Acts of Kindness yourself!! I look forward to more posts in 2009!
January 5, 2009 at 2:09 PM
I gave YOU an award on my blog! Don't forget to claim it.
January 5, 2009 at 3:41 PM
Happy New Year. What a wonderful idea for thank you's........hoping you have lots of random acts of kindess showered on your family!
January 6, 2009 at 1:51 PM
I love the candy cane idea!!
January 6, 2009 at 5:46 PM
Loving your blog!!
January 19, 2009 at 5:59 AM
well those look nice. great idea to keep the kids busy
.. stopped over from moms helping moms network as promised, hope to see you around :) ...
January 20, 2009 at 1:39 PM
Where are you? When it's been almost a month since your last post the blog readers will pick up pitchforks...
January 24, 2009 at 7:54 AM
You must be keeping busy on your GNO blog? I hope all is well!