Tiffany Ivanovsky and Paul Ivanovsky We love you and your family so much. You have helped us save money and find deals and we appreciate you so much. When I read that you lost Emma, I cried off and on for days. I was 15 when I lost my Mother and had young siblings and understand how hard it is continue reading...
Feel Good Cookies
Last night we talked to a person in our church called Brother Snow. He has cancer and has to do chemotherapy. He told us he had weeks were he can eat things and weeks were he can't. This is a good week when he can so we decided to make cookies to bring to him with a card tonight so he knows we are continue reading...
Black Friday for Emma
I used some of Emma's cards today. I had a choice, eat lunch with my daughter at McDonald's or pay for the car behind me. I paid for the car behind me and left Emma's card for them. I thought, what better time than black Friday, when everyone seems to be in such a rush and such a bad mood. Hopefully continue reading...
Emma making people smile
Emma made a lady smile in Mt. Vernon,Ilinois on Thanksgiving morning. She was working at the gas station by herself.I gave her one of my "Emma bags" as I call them. She asked if I was Emma, I told her no I am not. But I did stand there a few minutes and tell her some of Emma's story. continue reading...
Angels #Forouremma
I donate all year to various charities and I thought I was done for the season. But I have followed Tiffany's blogs for several years, it completely broke my heart when her daughter passed. I told my 10 year old son about her and we decided we need to donate a little more in her honor. His Beta Club continue reading...
Stranded on the Highway
We were only 2 hours away from our destination in a 17 hour drive to see family for the holidays. We were about 25 miles out from the nearest town when we saw an older man with his thumb out next to a car. We were going too fast to immediately stop but Ben, my husband, looked at me and said, "we continue reading...
Drive Thru
Every so often I will treat my self to a drive thru lunch after a morning of activities with the boys I nanny. Today the cashier said "The person in front of you paid for your meal"and handed me this envelope with this card and cash. This sweet gesture from a stranger had me in tears. continue reading...
Babysitting and Cinnabons :)
We have two stories today!! First, my hubby is out of town and I had to make a 4 hour round trip, plus time there, with my two oldest which meant I had to find someone to watch my 3 littles from 6:15am until noon. My amazing friend got up that early, fed them breakfast and lunch, and let them do a continue reading...
Gift at Starbucks
I went to Starbucks today to buy my friend & I a holiday drink while they had their happy hour. The lady in front of me was kind enough to pay for our drinks & I received the "Gift From Emma" card from the Barista. It truly turned my day around. I paid it forward with a Starbucks gift card continue reading...
Divinity
We were thinking of what act of kindness we could do for Emma, and then while cleaning we stumbled upon a hand written recipe for divinity. Mom told us the story of how she used to work with this nice old lady in the church history museum in Utah. She said that she used to go over to her house on continue reading...