Gift Ideas

The past year of my life has been one of very many changes, from a quickly expanding family and new house, as well as the loss of many important people in my life. Through these changes I have started to learn more about helping others and the good it brings.

I have already talked about A Real Hope for Haiti in earlier posts. Through this website, I found Maggie's story (maggiebixler.blogspot.com). It is absolutely heart wrenching to think of a child my daughter's age, enduring all that she has. I check on her daily and find it so inspiring to see the courage her parents maintain given everything they have been through.


So, I was looking on target.com today and I realized that if you go to this page...

https://www.target.com/lists/portal?ref=nav_targetlist&layersGoHttps=subnavCreateMenuHeader

... you are able to look at and buy for St. Jude's Children's hospital as well as other causes. What an AWESOME idea!

Instead of buying all of the usual odds and ends that we buy to stuff stockings with, or buying an extra big ticket item for a family member, how cool would it be to give a gift in someone's honor?! I think this is a great way to show people you care, and also help out people who really need it at the same time.


I was also reading another person's blog about how a great gift idea is to give four presents to each person you buys for. One gift they NEED, one gift they WANT, one gift they WEAR and one gift they can READ. I think we are going to do this for Christmas this year. The additional goal is to have one things that is used within one of these gift categories.