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