This week...Brother Wolf

We are going to start our year of service at Brother Wolf this week. We are going to walk dogs and give some puppy baths. Its been interesting trying to explain to Emma that the dogs don't have mommies to take care of them and need us to give them some love. I am super excited to begin this journey!

Starting Sooner!!!

So, I thought it would be good to wait until April since its national volunteer month but it turns out I'm not creative enough to come up with things to blog about without doing something.  (This is my first blog...and I'm a bit shy). So, I thought, why wait???  I can make April a goal of trying to find 10 other mom's to do this with me by then...in honor of national volunteer month...so, I will start next week!!

Just an idea...

I have recently become a stay-at-home mom...and over the last few years as my husband and I worked to make this happen and talked about all of the reasons why this is important to us...one of the big reasons for busting our butts to make this happen for me was that I want to be intentional about the things my kids (well - hopefully more than one some day) learn.
We all want this, right...but when your so busy, it's hard to make some of those really important things happen.  Anyway, I have always wanted to make sure that I did more to serve my community with my daughter, Emma. Like many awesome mom's its really important to me that my daughter learns to live a life in service to the community around her. I know I don't always do enough with all of my blessings...but somehow this idea of helping Em learn to be giving even when life is busy...with her own hands...is really important to me. And now that I am LUCKY enough to have the time to really do this regularly with my daughter, I am hoping that my ideas will help others to do these things with their kids too!
So, the purpose of this blog/project...will be to help Mom's like me where ever...lead their kids in service to their community. April is national volunteer month so we will kick off our year of service then. I am hoping that between now and then I will just get the word out a little. What I picture now...is activities like cooking for your local soup kitchen, writing letters to nursing homes, going through your toys and bringing old ones to a children's home...each week we will all do just one really awesome service project and hopefully blog about it.  Maybe even get groups of mom's together to do some of the bigger ones...
Just an idea...