We had our Egg Nog, Swedish coffee bread, and Porridge on Christmas morning like we always do. Then off to see Mama at the nursing home. We brought her a small Swedish coffee bread and a candy cane pen. I did her nails, she really liked that and loved the fact Reagan (our dog) came…
Last week I thought I had about $300.00 of brake repairs to be done. My van was scheduled to be taken into the shop that day but when I went outside and loaded up my kids to take them to school and my son to work, the van wouldn’t start. It couldn’t be jumped either…
Today I spotted £10 on the ground in my local shopping centre. I was going to keep it but it didn’t feel quite right, it wasn’t mine after all. I asked the security guard if I should hand it in and he said they’d never prove who it belonged to so I should keep it.
I wanted to change the spark plug in my lawn mower but thought I didn’t have the right tool to remove old spark plug, so off I went to Bunnings and bought a spark plug remover thingie… yaahhhh right? Nope, it didn’t fit, I couldn’t make it work. So off I trot, back to Bunnings…
During Halloween, we took some amazing World-Changing Kids to Billingswood Manor, a retirement home not very far from us. This was our third time visiting the residents there – we went at Valentine’s Day and Easter this year to hand out homemade cards. So this time, the residents knew what to expect. They were all…
On thanksgiving a few years back, my first solo one after I decided not to hang with my toxic family, I went to my favorite deli and a man asked me for a sandwich. I said sure.
I was sitting at a traffic light when my car battery went flat. Suddenly a young man came to me and said “get in and step on the accelerator and do not stop to say thank you. Once I push the car you need to start it”. I did what he told me to do except…
My mother was in a rehab/nursing home for about 7 weeks before I brought her home. She died on June 9th. I recently went back to the rehab centre to thank the nurses and aides for their care. As I was talking to one of the nurses, one of the patients, who they later told me…
A few years back I was having flowers delivered to my office every single day for a whole month from a secret admirer. It got to a point that my office started looking like a wake. I was sharing the flowers with everyone in my office because I didn’t know what else to do with…
Last summer I did volunteer work for the birthday bank. Basically, it’s a food bank that gives children who live so deeply below the poverty line that they become socially isolated (no extracurricular stuff, no birthdays, etc) a birthday in a box. I was in charge of the presents that particular day, which is the…
My Lulu was born with a hemangioma in her nose. She was quickly put on steroids in hopes to shrink it and began having laser surgeries as young as 8 months old to prep her for her big surgery when she turned 1. We received a letter from the insurance company that everything would be…
A few years ago, I befriended a guy in his 60’s, who had been incarcerated as a youth for murder. His story is sad and understandable with abusing issues from a young age by many he should have been able to trust to protect him. He had been kept inside beyond the time he should have and…