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How To Do Some Anonymous Gifting to Help Feed the Hungry

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Interested in doing some anonymous gifting? Want to help a friend or neighbor you know who is struggling a bit to keep food on the table, but want to gift anonymously? Here is a great way to Feed the Hungry and do so in a fun and unknown way! Our second Christmas together, a year after our first anniversary, we were expecting twins. It was ...

6 People You Forget to Thank All Year and Gifts They’ll Appreciate

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Needing some appreciation gift ideas for the mailman, hairdresser, doctor, teachers, apartment staff, or military personnel this Christmas season? I've got you covered. Once again, the Christmas holiday is upon us and I’m looking around wondering where the year went! The older I get, the faster it seems to go. Part of getting older means ...

How to Assemble Blessing Bags for Homeless People as a Group

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This post is sponsored by Mormon.org. All opinions expressed are my own. This year as part of our homeschool, we participate in a local Christian Exploring Co-Op. We take turns planning field trips for our kids. In addition to the field trips we schedule a Moms Night Out, a Teen Night, and a Service Project each quarter too. Our last service ...

Family Service Ideas to Give Back and Pay It Forward

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Looking for some great family service ideas? Then you've come to the right place. Keep reading for service ideas for families that are easy and also super meaningful! Last week I was doing my regular weekly grocery shopping trip, which meant it was during the day and with all four of my children, as we are homeschooling the oldest two for ...

Money Can Buy You Happiness When You Give Forward

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This post is sponsored by GiveForward and Find Your Influence. All opinions are mine. There have been a lot of times in my life where I have been on the receiving end of another's generosity, and I'm not just talking about holidays and birthdays. My family wasn't very well off while growing up, and bags of (hand-me down) clothes would often show ...

The Best Places to Donate (or Sell) Your Old Clothes

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Burlington Stores sponsored this post. The opinions and text are 100% mine. When we were preparing for our big move from Indiana to Texas, I wanted to go through every closet, every box, and everything we own and declutter our lives, downsize, and get rid of us as much as possible. Not only would it make it easier to move, but easier to live. ...

Hunger in America – The Monkey Do Project

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Today Jacqueline Wilson, the founder of The Monkey Do Project, and fellow Indianapolis blogger, is guest posting about something very important - Hunger in America. This is especially a problem as many children no longer have school lunches and meals. Find out how you can help end child hunger right here in the United States of America. Shocking ...

How Kids Can Play Doctor: Get a Shot. Give a Shot.®

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This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser #GiveaShot. All opinions are my own. #CollectiveBias With twins it is often "You first then me" for anything unpleasant that must happen. When it comes to getting a shot at the doctors office, it's definitely YOU first! Getting shots is not usually a very pleasant ...

Instilling the Value of Service in Our Kids

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Charity, service, helping others. Whatever name you give it, service is a value that every parents wants instilled within their child. We want to raise children who believe in assisting, in lending a hand, and in putting in the time and/or the hard work in order to do so, because if we do not have charity, we are nothing (or so says Paul in 1 ...

Activity Days Service Project – Cleaning up Litter and Trash

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At church I am the Activity Days leader, which means once a month I come up with an activity for a group of a dozen or so girls ages 8-11 to do. For a long time I've been wanting to come up with a good LDS Activity Days service project that the girls could do. And since it is summer, I decided that for our Activity Days service project we'd go ...

A Stranger Asked Me for a Ride, but My Kids Were in the Car…

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A woman was walking around our apartment complex as I was putting my kids in the car to head off to our weekly church play-group. My husband was inside the house, intending to stay home and do some schoolwork. After I strapped my kids in the car, I grabbed my husband's school bag out of the back when this woman apologetically asked if I could help ...

A Little Help From My Friends

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Josh here Fagan fans. I don’t have a ton to say today, in fact I am not going to talk about bad actors or cars, but I did want to make a request. You see, I believe in the power of prayer. I don’t think that all of my prayers are that great or thoughtful, but I believe that the Lord listens to them anyway and He answers in His own way. The more ...