Send a Box of Happy to Family in Need

This week's project holds a special place in my heart. We actually were contacted by someone who had seen our Facebook page, telling us about a family of 4 beautiful girls who are in need of many things. To maintain their privacy and safety, I won't discuss their story; but the unfortunate circumstances they all have had to endure really pulled at my heart strings. I wish we could have provided more for them, but in the end we decided to send a "box of happy" to try and bring smiles and brighten their day. We ended up picking up a few of our favourite items, ranging from some of my favourite books for the mom to favourite movies and activities of the boys for the daughters. Bug helped with most of the kid items; however, Bear had a few says, especially for the youngest daughter. We also were told that the oldest daughter has a birthday coming up, and our family loves celebrating birthdays. We packed a birthday bag of our favourite celebratory items, including cake mix with candles, icing and sprinkles. My boys love helping with baking, so I thought this would be a nice way to get the girls with their mom doing something fun together. We also included some party poppers and glow sticks for them to have some birthday excitement.

When we went to drop off the package at the post office, Bug was so adorable, asking the cashier if she was going to take care of our box of happy. It was so cute...she said she's never been asked that. Bug must really understand the importance of this package. He was really excited to bring joy to this family.

Our List of our Random Acts of Kindness

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And any random acts of kindness that is inspired by our project or your experience with ours that you'd like to share, type #plantakiss with your social media picture.

Make Birthday Cards for Isolated Seniors

This past Christmas, I came across this Facebook page, Seniors Secret Service, where they provide Christmas cheer for isolated and lonely seniors in our area. I missed the deadline by just a few days to send in a Christmas care package for one of their seniors; however, I kept the page in mind for this coming holiday season. When I was compiling our list of random acts of kindness, this organization came back into my mind. When I checked out their website again, I noticed that it isn't just for the holidays but for the birthdays of the seniors too that they bring some cheer. So we decided to make a handful of birthday cards to send out. The boys love their grandparents, and Bug especially was sad to hear that there are lonely "grandparents" in our city. He loved making them cards!

I contacted the organization, and they said they are always in need of the items they pack in their birthday packages. We weren't able to grab any this time; however, we will continue to provide for this great cause so our next batch will include some of these items. They just depleted a large portion of their stock in their last batch of 400 birthday packages, so on their Facebook page they have requested some donations and more birthday cards. I've created an event on Facebook, Senior Birthday Packages for any who would like to bring some love and joy to our seniors. If you have little ones at home, and don't have the time to make cards, feel free to send me some of their artwork that I can make into cards. Contact me for my mailing address at plantakissproject@gmail.com. Also, if you'd like to send cards or items yourself, the address can be found on their Facebook page under the "About" section. They are having another Birthday Bee August 2nd, where their volunteers put together the birthday packages, so any help in donations and cards before that date would be greatly appreciated!

You can find out more information, especially of their Senior Secret Santa program by viewing their website.

Our List of our Random Acts of Kindness

Remember to check out our Website: Plant a Kiss Project

Or our Instagram: @plantakissproject

Or our Facebook Page: Plant a Kiss Project

And any random acts of kindness that is inspired by our project or your experience with ours that you'd like to share, type #plantakiss with your social media picture.

Give Library Patrons a Bag of Bookworms

Our family loves going to the library, so a couple of weeks ago, our random act of kindness included a trip to one of our favourite destinations. I also thought that this was a great place to perform some random kindness as this library is right across the street from a high school. I was hoping that Bug would chose some teenagers as his people to hopefully instill the joy of kindness and love among the human race in the younger generation.

Our little gift was a bag of gummy worms (Bug used tongs to stuff the bags so no dirty fingers touched the sweetness). We made a label that said "Here are some bookworms for you". The back of the label had a little poem that read:

Here's a little gift for you

While you sit and read a book.

They are a bag of bookworms,

to keep your learning on the hook.

Our List of our Random Acts of Kindness

Remember to check out our Website: Plant a Kiss Project

Or our Instagram: @plantakissproject

Or our Facebook Page: Plant a Kiss Project

And any random acts of kindness that is inspired by our project or your experience with ours that you'd like to share, type #plantakiss with your social media picture.