Dear blog, I'm sorry I neglect you, I'm such a busy little bee lately!
I finally got one of my box packing videos done yesterday and I was pretty pleased with it despite the awful quality of the camera. Check it out on my SFNFM channel on Youtube, links below.
The hall for the packing party is booked and with less than two weeks to go I'm very excited. I had what you might call a brainwave just now and it may possibly be one of the best ideas I have ever had. (There again it may just be the daftest thing you have ever heard...) I had the bright idea of actually utilising my LiveStream account to broadcast our little event, live. I'm not sure if anybody would be interested in watching it but it's not like it would take so much effort so I have tweeted to all of my two followers (!) and will be taking along my laptop on the day. The event is on October 21 from 4.30-6.30pm at Eastney Community Centre so if anyone would like more details please get in touch! I will also put a link below to the piece that was in the paper yesterday regarding the event.
If you would like to follow me on Twitter please do so @bessybaby84. I will love you forever.
Friday 8 October 2010
Thursday 30 September 2010
Snowball
I dont know if anyone has seen the mini series or read the book of Stephen King's The Stand. There is a line in which Stu Redman says he was told by Mother Abigail in a dream that, on his journey to the Free Zone, he would be like a snowball rolling down a hill, gathering more weight as he went. "...mind you keep pickin' up strays the way". Or something along those lines. Thats kind of how I'm feeling at the moment.
Since I announced just last week that I would be taking part in the Operation Christmas Child project, I have had lots of friends asking me how they too can get involved. So I have decided to take things a step further. About an hour ago I sent a message to the members of the Portsmouth and Southsea Netmums group on Facebook telling them about the project and I have put forward the idea of holding a 'packing party' (having been inspired by a few members of the OCC Facebook page). I have already recieved a few positive responses and my good friend Lauren has offered to help pay for the booking of a small hall to hold it in. I have also e-mailed my local paper asking if they would be interested in doing a feature on the event.
I never thought I would be the type of person to inpsire others, especially without actually meaning to do so, but on I roll down that hill and each person I pick up on the way represents one more child who gets to smile this Christmas.
Since I announced just last week that I would be taking part in the Operation Christmas Child project, I have had lots of friends asking me how they too can get involved. So I have decided to take things a step further. About an hour ago I sent a message to the members of the Portsmouth and Southsea Netmums group on Facebook telling them about the project and I have put forward the idea of holding a 'packing party' (having been inspired by a few members of the OCC Facebook page). I have already recieved a few positive responses and my good friend Lauren has offered to help pay for the booking of a small hall to hold it in. I have also e-mailed my local paper asking if they would be interested in doing a feature on the event.
I never thought I would be the type of person to inpsire others, especially without actually meaning to do so, but on I roll down that hill and each person I pick up on the way represents one more child who gets to smile this Christmas.
Saturday 25 September 2010
Good Samaritan
Welcome to my first post on my new blog. I set up this blog as I always find I have so much to talk about in my Monday post on 7yummymummies and thought another outlet would be appropriate, especially for non-parenting related topics.
I am super excited at the moment as I have decided to participate in the Operation Christmas Child project this year. The project is run by a charity called Samaritan Purse and involves filling a shoebox with gifts to be sent to an underprivelidged child perhaps in an underdeveloped country. Of course I feel very proud of the fact that, because of me, two children (I plan to do a boys and a girls shoebox) for whom the festive season probably doesn't hold half the joy and magic it does for my own children, get to feel loved and special, that someone, somewhere in the world put the effort in for them and them alone.
I am also just relishing the fact that I get to do some early present shopping. I tend to get the 'Christmas itch' around this time each year. I truly love buying presents and everywhere I go I see lovely things that I'm dying to buy but do not want to wait until the end of December for my children to have them. I also have so many nieces and nephews that I find it profitable to wait until the week before Christmas when most places have their half price toy sales. I have already bought a few things intended for Christmas for Courtney and let her have them right away. There are so many things I do want to get them for Christmas though, so it's probably just as well.
I also figure that helping put the shoeboxes together will remind my older two how lucky they are to be able to have nice things. I'm going to get them to write a little card to put in the boxes too. Even if the child receiving the boxes is unable to read they will know that another child wrote it for them, kind of like having a little friend.
I posted the link to the Samaritan Purse website on Facebook and a couple of my friends have now decided to take part in the project as well. I'm sure as we are watching our own childrens faces light up as they delve into their sacks and rip open the bright packages 'Santa' has left for them, we will also be saying a silent prayer for the children for whom we have restored faith in human goodness for.
A child who usually has so little.
I am super excited at the moment as I have decided to participate in the Operation Christmas Child project this year. The project is run by a charity called Samaritan Purse and involves filling a shoebox with gifts to be sent to an underprivelidged child perhaps in an underdeveloped country. Of course I feel very proud of the fact that, because of me, two children (I plan to do a boys and a girls shoebox) for whom the festive season probably doesn't hold half the joy and magic it does for my own children, get to feel loved and special, that someone, somewhere in the world put the effort in for them and them alone.
I am also just relishing the fact that I get to do some early present shopping. I tend to get the 'Christmas itch' around this time each year. I truly love buying presents and everywhere I go I see lovely things that I'm dying to buy but do not want to wait until the end of December for my children to have them. I also have so many nieces and nephews that I find it profitable to wait until the week before Christmas when most places have their half price toy sales. I have already bought a few things intended for Christmas for Courtney and let her have them right away. There are so many things I do want to get them for Christmas though, so it's probably just as well.
I also figure that helping put the shoeboxes together will remind my older two how lucky they are to be able to have nice things. I'm going to get them to write a little card to put in the boxes too. Even if the child receiving the boxes is unable to read they will know that another child wrote it for them, kind of like having a little friend.
I posted the link to the Samaritan Purse website on Facebook and a couple of my friends have now decided to take part in the project as well. I'm sure as we are watching our own childrens faces light up as they delve into their sacks and rip open the bright packages 'Santa' has left for them, we will also be saying a silent prayer for the children for whom we have restored faith in human goodness for.
A child who usually has so little.
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