Hey everyone.

The soda tab collection is going great. Here’s the count.

Our principal has……Two five gallon jugs and 75% of a five gallon bucket full.

Our assistant principal has……One five gallon jug and two 5 gallon buckets full.

Looks like our assistant principal has taken the lead just by a little bit. It will be a close one. The contest will be ending this Thursday so bring in your tabs fast!

Greetings Earthlings!

For these three months I will have one main project.  I will still do other things but this is the big one.

We will be collecting soda can tabs to donate to the Ronald McDonald House.  We will have a contest at my school.  There will be two containers to fill up.  One will have my Principal’s name and the other will have my Vice Principal’s name on it.  Students will then put their tabs in one of the containers.  Which ever principal has the most tabs in there container will have to pay the price! The price is……

A pie shoved in their face! And the best part is that the one with the least amount of tabs gets to throw the pie! We will be broadcasting it on our morning news station!

-Molly

Hello!

The valentine making went great! I had the honor of going to the Ronald McDonald House and delivering the cards.  It is a very beautiful place. I didn’t hand them out individually.  I gave them to a couple of very nice ladies who are going to tape the cards to everyone’s door.  There were 60 cards for the patients, families, and volunteers.

Thank you all so much for helping!!  The kids at my school and in my girl scout troop helped to make this project a success!  The Helping Hand club is off to a great start.

For February I am doing something like last year’s February project.

My club and I will be making Valentines for the Ronald McDonald house.  For every Valentine each girl makes, they get their name entered for a basket full of prizes.

Our first club meeting was Monday. The number of people that came was……!!!!

7!!!!

 Although that may seem like a small number, that is actually a very good one! I hope girls continue to come to the next meeting on Friday. I guess we will see!

Also, I would like to do a SUPERCARD party. While watching the Superbowl me and my Girl Scout buddies could make cards. I don’t know if Mom is okay with this but I sure hope so!  I guess I’ll have to ask her first.

Hey Everyone!

For January, I am starting a club at school called the Helping Hand Club. We will be doing monthly projects to help the community. So my January project was to get my club going. I talked to my homeroom teacher and she agreed to sponsor my club. I also handed out little note cards that said everything to know about the first meeting. I handed them out to all the 6th grade girls at my school. Hope it turns out great!

Today is the one year anniversary of Molly’s first post on her website.  It has been a great year!  When she started, she wanted to find a way to “inspire others.”  From sending items to kids in Afghanistan to sharing Christmas with others in Southern Illinois, she has worked hard to complete her goals.

Some projects didn’t turn out exactly like she had planned.  She feels that she didn’t do much in December.  She is wrong on that one.  She inspired her family members to get off the couch and help others.  Because of her idea to exchange names, there is more food at the food bank and children have books that they didn’t have before.  Someone even made a loan to help a woman run her business in Peru.  Each of us has been inspired. 

January is technically Molly’s last monthly project.  She has been working on a big one that she will unveil soon.  Look for changes in 2010.

December was the time of giving!

For Christmas, my family exchanged names.  Instead of trading a list of things that we wanted, we traded a list of two charities.  Each of us had a month to complete a project and then “give” a gift related to that project

I had my Aunt. Her two ideas that I had to pick from were hunger and literacy.  Although I helped with her project and we collected over 650 canned food items, I failed to complete anything on my own….

I did turn in my donation for Pat’s Kids!!! I had collected a total of $225 dollars over the year.  Bake sales, garage sales, and making bracelets really paid off.  That with the $500 dollars I won earlier in the year was a great donation!

December did not plan out to be as “big” as I wanted it to be. It came way to fast and I just wasn’t ready. I hope that I am more prepared next year so that I can do more things to help out!

Hey Guys!!!!

First of all, the November project went awesome!!!! My aunt collected over 650 items. AWESOME!!!! My mom and I helped take the food items and deliver them to the Good Samaritan House.

Next, Pat Benton had his radio broadcast for Pat’s Kids. I wasn’t able to make it, but I WAS still able to donate $225 to the amazing charity. That is on top of the $500 dollars I won in the contest earlier this year.

Finally, to the December project. My aunts, mom, step dad, and I traded names for Christmas. But we aren’t trading gifts. We wrote down things that we thought needed to be helped or fixed such as hunger issues. I cannot explain fully what mine is, because then the person I received will know that I have them. I will explain more later! For now, we are all doing great work for charity.  It feels great that I could inspire them all to help out.

                        -Molly

I just wanted to add a quick post about Molly’s current project.  She has been really busy with girl scouts & her play lately. 

The food drive is going extremely well.  As of Friday, they have collected over 300 items.  It ends on Friday.  Molly will add a new post this week to let everyone know how it is all going.  She’ll tell you about the December project as well.

Hey Everyone…….October, well I went trick or treating for UNICEF. It is a great charity. And they help alot of kids. You can go to http://youth.unicefusa.org/trickortreat/ to learn more.

For November I will be helping my aunt do a canned food drive at the school she teaches at. I will just do whatever she needs me to do. Maybe I will make signs or something for her. I will post again when I have more details.