Helping Hands
Harvesting Kindness.
"The Lord bless him," Naomi said to her daughter-in-law. "He has not stopped showing kindness..." Ruth 2:20 Kindness. That word is a positive word. It makes me smile just looking at it. I love reading about random acts of kindness, researching new ways to show...
A Great Big Thank You From The Tiniest of Tots
My Hill-Rom colleagues from the Cary, NC office filled and delivered around 100 buckets to the Duke Children's Hospital in Durham, NC. One grandmother sent the following thank you note when her grandson received a bucket. Every single person volunteering for Bucket...
National Random Act of Kindness Day!
Today is National Random Acts of Kindness Day! All week, I've been talking about different ways we can make a difference to others and showing you ways people have made a difference to me. Today I am paying it forward with some gift cards to a couple people who helped...
Kindness Act Day Six!
"Neither rain nor snow nor sleet nor hail, can keep the postal workers from delivering our mail." We've heard the saying. We've believed it. And truth be told, we've come to expect it. No excuses. The postal service has an important job to perform and they take it...
Kindness Act Day Five!
I pulled into the driveway 3 hours past my normal arrive-at-home time. Tired. Cold. Wet from rain. I actually took a deep breath and laid my head on the steering wheel dreading to go into this piled house that needed a good cleaning. My life had been crazy lately. ...
Kindness Act Day Four!
"I miss Mayberry. Sittin' on the porch drinkin' ice cold cherry coke." *Lyrics to "Mayberry" by Rascal Flatts Man, how I miss those simple days when I was little and we would take Sunday drives over to grandma and grandpa's house and sit on the front porch and just...
Kindness Act Day Three!
Fifty for Fifty! For my 50th birthday, my friend, Michelle, contacted about 50 of my friends, coworkers and family to write a note to me sharing kind words and memories from my lifetime. She had the letters mailed to her home and she gathered them in a beautifully...
Kindness Act Day Two!
22!! That's my favorite number. I'm not exactly sure how it came about but I remember when my husband and I were talking about getting married, I knew I wanted August 22nd. My dad's birthday is on the 22nd; my grandpa's birthday was the 22nd; my grandma's birthday...
Kindness Act Day One!
It's one of my favorite weeks of the year...Random Acts of Kindness Week! Today we get to deliver buckets to Riley Children's Hospital in Carmel and West Lafayette locations. I love, love, love doing things to make a difference to other people especially when it...
