What are your recent acts of kindness?

Took groceries to my mom today and her next door neighbor came home and chatted a bit. She said she was on a mission to find tp. She said she scored a 12 pk. However, a quite elderly couple asked where she found it, and she also noticed they had a couple of boxes of Kleenex in their cart. She gave them her tp. Said she would go again tomorrow to see if she could find her some. Thought that was very sweet of her.

I contacted the management company for my place in Yosemite and told them the staff could have whatever food, cleaning supplies, etc., they wanted from my place. There’s not a lot but anything might help, right?

I shared a pot of homemade sauce, meatballs & sausage with my elderly widowed next door neighbor who lives alone. He loved it 🍝

Who knew my paper trimmer (fiskars with titanium rotary blade) could cut fabric for masks. My neighbor making masks for maidpro....I cut and she sewed..

We dropped off care packages on some friends porches yesterday.

I’ve been taking food to my grandparents. And doing porch/yard visits.

Monday we are mailing all of our friend’s kids letters and cards.


Teaching my kids to make others smile through all of this!

This isn't much, but at least we could help.

My daughter does in home care for the elderly. She called one day because she couldn't find toilet paper for her clients. Dh went to his business which is just down a shopping center from a grocery store. He went to the store and they had 4 packs of toilet paper. They were limiting it to one pack. He went back to get more until he had enough for our daughter's clients.

That's so nice! 

I just love reading these!
So many great ideas - that's the best part of sharing what we do, isn't it?
Thanks to all. Let's keep sharing and INSPIRING others. I don't usually share what i do but I will in case it inspires others.

Prior to the lockdown I helped 4 families/singles who were in tough spots get stocked up on supplies. I was able to purchase and gift these to them - an enormous privilege.

Since the lockdown:
1. I have organized the sewing of 35 fabric masks by cutting the fabric and providing elastic or seam binding to finish them. 3 friends have sewn these up as I prep more kits for people interested in sewing. In my area there is a need for these right now, for housekeeping staff cleaning the rooms of first responders who are being quarantined. They are being worn over N-95 masks and each employee will eventually get three. Maybe more. The masks were returned to me this morning to be washed, dried and delivered this afternoon. I haven't left the house in two weeks so it will be good to go for a 10 minute drive and drop these off, at a safe distance.

2. Sharing what I've learned from the mask project with other sewists: ie., pin the fabric ties to each other on a mask BEFORE you launder them. Learned that one the hard way!

3. We always have a major supply of tp (part of my earthquake disaster prep) and I shared with a neighbor who needed some.

4. When my sewing friends came by for their fabrics I included some sort of treat as a wee thank you. Small gestures are really important I think.

5. There are several elderly people I check in with regularly, and my 88 yo mom daily. She's blessedly healthy physically and cognitively, recovered from a hip fracture and wicked case of shingles within the last 18 mos, and lives in my childhood home, alone. My sister lives 3 miles away but can no longer visit. 3 weeks ago I implored my sister to do a huge shopping to stock her home and mum's with non-perishables, etc. and she did.

Thanks everyone for your inspiration! May you and your loved ones all stay healthy and survive the pandemic intact!

After I left the grocery store this morning (I found everything on my list! Even TP!!), on a whim I stopped at a local restaurant that makes the.best.lemon.cookies and picked up 3 dozen for DH's crew at work.

Earlier this week, an elderly couple on their way from FL to VT got lost in my neighborhood. I stopped what I was doing and let them follow me there. We live just off an interstate exit and although WM is close, it's easy to find your way into our neighborhood but not know how to get out.

Alice Phelps is the director of First Families Now. Her address is 2904 BIA 27, Porcupine, SD 57772-3027

Our company receptionist has a fiancé with multiple health problems. She takes care of him, works full time and is stressed about either of them catching this. She could not find TP and had almost run out and really didn’t want to go store to store. She has her own health issues and both are in their late 50’s.

My DH had stopped at a grocery near our house and saw they had some. I had been working at home, but took the two packs of TP, a couple rolls of paper towels and a box of cookies I had picked up over to work. She was so thankful. The stress of life is just too much right now. Lack of TP should not be the thing that pushes you to tears.

We played a silly card game that we hadn't played before. I can't recall the name of it, but it has a deck of cards with cartoon illustrations that represent a song title and an artist. We made up our own rules and played as a family, giving ourselves a maximum of 30 seconds to work together to solve the puzzle. We were SO bad at it -- I think we scored 17 cards out of more than 60 possible. Anyway, our neighbors are going through a tough time right now, so we ended up putting the game in a bag, telling them the rules and asking them to see if they could beat our pitiful score. Their son is a music major, and we're thinking he may have better luck than we did. Hoping they'll be able to laugh at themselves as much as we did as we tried to brainstorm crazy answers to describe the even crazier cartoons.

My estranged brother and I have reconnected via email. It’s been 10 years Life is too short.