Every year my older kids do Operation Christmas Box through their school. The idea is to fill a box and an organization called Samaritan's Purse sends them to kids in need around the world. In the past we have let the kids who go to school fill the boxes and turn them in and tried to do other acts continue reading...

Paul Ivanovsky and Tiffany Ivanovsky, After praying and discerning of a way that we can honor Emma's life, Sarah Pratt and I have decided to install a Little Free Library in our front yard. We thought this was a perfect combination of her love of reading and performing random acts of kindness. We continue reading...

Today I purchased (2)$15 Starbucks gift cards from Groupon with the intention on giving them to someone in Emma's honor... I decided on my way home from work to stop and grab dinner at my favorite spot :) Chuys... the waitress was so sweet so I said why not leave her one as her tip! I hope she continue reading...

I asked a friend that I hadn't seen in months to go shopping with me. The weather was miserable outside but she agreed to go and brought her 15 year old daughter with her who was looking for a good, sturdy pair of basketball shoes. When we were done shopping the daughter noticed I had bought some continue reading...

Note of explanation: We have been talking to our kids a lot about this site and how they can honor their beautiful cousin. We have challenged them to look for small acts of service that they can do everyday - things that they normally wouldn't see or be too scared to do (within safety limits). This continue reading...

Tonight at our coupon class as a lady was leaving she brought this to me and told me how she made this for us. I started to open it and she said I should wait until I got home. Of course I started crying, which is normal now. My tears were sadness because I miss Emma so much but also equal were the continue reading...

Today we stopped to have breakfast at Chik-Fil-A and as we sat down we saw an older gentleman just finishing up his meal all alone at a table nearby. He wore a World War II Veteran cap and kept smiling at my two younger girls running up to the counter by themselves to get lemonades (it took several continue reading...

This is not something that I did for somebody it was something that somebody did for my little one, we were at the gas station spending the dollar that somebody had given him for his birthday when after we were done he realized that his money was gone and he was so sad he's like Mommy is she going continue reading...

Dear Emma, My kindness, in memory of you, was getting out of bed. I know you would be laughing at that but let me tell you, it was hard. We all miss you so much that it physically hurts. Some days are okay. I take the kids to school, smile that your mom texted me back, and sort of clean my house. continue reading...

November 1 we light up candles for all the children we have lost in our life this year we lite up 4 one of them was for Emma we set out food she liked and other things we thought she might the candle is for her to find her way to the house we played kid movies and invited her to play with any of the continue reading...