tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63345683072677592972024-03-21T09:28:11.678-07:00The Joy of Christmas CAREolingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6334568307267759297.post-46491415412559363872011-11-22T06:50:00.001-08:002011-11-22T08:32:07.295-08:00Christmas CAREoling is a sweet, new version of a classic tradition. Instead of singing Christmas Carols, you surprise friends, family, and STRANGERS with sweet surprises and leave a CAREoling Card for them!!! <br />
Still confused? An example would be to give warm treats and a CAREoling Card with an appreciative little note to the person who collects your trash on a cold, winter day. How amazing would the Holidays be if everyone was surprising each other with kind words and fun surprises??!!! What a great way to introduce our children to the goodness of GIVING too!<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">1 - Fun Polka Dots</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">3 - Holiday CAREoling</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_936585045">You can also visit Christmas CAREoling on Facebook to get inspiration and see the amazing surprises by people everywhere! </a></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Christmas-CAREoling/194673253947566?sk=wall" target="_blank">Please share your CAREoling stories and ideas here.</a></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">The 25 Days until Christmas, an Advent Calendar, or just one sweet act of kindness this holiday season :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">-tape coins to vending machine, toy machine, car wash/vacuuming station</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">-pay for car behind at star bucks, drive thru, toll plaza, dry cleaners</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">-deliver candy canes to homes with christmas lights</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">-call hospital (kids floor, etc) to see what they would like</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">-deliver balloons to hospital patients</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">-pick a person/family to buy a meal for at a restaurant</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">-pay someone’s late fees at the library</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">-donate money to pay a needy family’s electric, gas, or water bill</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">-go grocery shopping and take food to soup kitchen</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">-bring a treat to a neighbor you do not know very well</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">-send a handwritten letter, personal message through Facebook to someone you do not talk to much, a family member, old friend, someone who has touched your life</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">-give treats/warm drinks/gift card on a cold day</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">to the person who collects your trash/recycling </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">-think about the people in your life that you forget to thank and tell them/do something sweet (mail carrier, kids teachers, school secretary, lawn man, babysitters, dry cleaners, school cafeteria/janitors, etc )</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">-give a grocery store gift card to someone in the grocery store</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">-pay for someone’s co-pay at a doctor’s office or walk-in clinic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">-leave a Walgreen’s/CVS/etc gift card for the pharmacist to give to a deserving someone filling a prescription.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">-leave a big tip to a deserving waiter or waitress</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">-Send a little something to a soldier who won’t be home for the holidays - ask around, someone usually knows someone. <a href="http://adoptaussoldier.org/"><span style="color: #1423a7; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN'; letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><b>Adoptaussoldier.org</b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">-Make a donation to the Make a Wish Foundation </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">-Offer to babysit for a friend</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">-schedule a play date with a new friend</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">-be a bell ringer or bring treats to one</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">-SMILE at everyone you come in contact with</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">-help an elderly person with their groceries - might be helpful to ask store when Senior Citizen discount day is</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">-call a nursing home/assisted living facility and see if they have any ideas of something nice to do (visit with residents, participate in facility activities)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">-pay for a family’s photo with Santa at the mall</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">-select a book(s) from your personal library and donate to a school/homeless shelter, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">-Start asking people if they know of someone or an organization that you could help - it’s amazing how much you will learn if you just ask!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">-Clean out closets and toys to donate OR schedule a toy swap with friends OR ask around for a deserving family/child</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">-Take donuts to the fire station/police dept</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">-Deliver reindeer food to friends </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">-Bring something nice to people who have to work on Christmas Eve/Christmas Day (gas station/drugstore)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">-Give out Walmart gift card to a deserving someone or family</span></div>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6334568307267759297.post-17747842810734221872011-11-16T12:41:00.001-08:002011-11-22T09:12:47.241-08:00My Sweet Inspiration<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 20px;">I am soooo excited to share a new idea that my best friend Traci and I came up with!!!!!<br /><br />Since losing my best friend Jamie to Breast Cancer in March of 2011, I have been constantly thinking about how I can make a difference and help others... and teach my girls to have a BIG HEART too!<br /><br />After a LOT of brainstorming, I came up with a sweet and fun new Christmas Tradition to do with my husband and our little girls-<br />It is called Christmas CAREoling and basically we are going to turn our cute Christmas Calendar into a Kindness Calendar and count down the 25 days until Christmas by surprising friends, family, and strangers with extra kindness!!!!! I hired my FAVORITE girl at <a href="http://www.inkberrycreative.com/" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration: none;">www.inkberrycreative.com</a> to make me the cutest little CAREoling cards to leave with our surprises. And my sweet friend Traci helped me SO MUCH and with her help... my vision is a reality!!!! (Thank You! Thank You! To my friends and family that helped me on this too!)</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 20px;">We have made these cards available to EVERYONE for FREE!!! </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://www.inkberrycreative.com/blog/2011/11/21/holiday-careoling/" target="_blank">Just CLICK HERE and get CAREoling!!!!</a></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 20px;">If Jamie were here, she would have been so excited to help with this project!!!! She loved being creative and making people SMILE!!!! I love you girl and cannot wait for everyone to know you too! We are all better people because of YOU!</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 20px;">Visit <a href="http://www.JamiesWish.org/" target="_blank">Jamie's Wish</a> to see her AMAZING legacy! </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 20px;">Click Here for <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jamies-Wish/267376683272881" target="_blank">Jamie's Wish Updates and to become a supporter!</a></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 20px;">Visit <a href="http://www.lovingpink.com/" target="_blank">Jamie's Website Here</a></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://web.me.com/flinthills/Site/My_Ramblings/My_Ramblings.html" target="_blank">Click Here to read her courageous words</a></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Jamie-San-Diego/213540462036400" target="_blank">Click here to see the impact TEAM JAMIE is making :)</a></span><br />
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