The Overflow of Hearts

I am so amazed. I asked the Stroller Striders to donate childrens books. It was a simple request but you never know when you ask someone for donations if they are going to care about what you care about or not. And as confident as I can be in some areas of my life, asking others to help me is not one of them. Well, I am wowed! The Stroller Striders poured out a true overflow of support. We collected over 50 books yesterday with more coming! I am so blessed to know such wonderful women and mothers. THANK YOU ALL!

A little background - My Stroller Strides group tries to do some sort of community outreach each quarter. Even though as moms we all understand life is not all about "me" anymore, we can still fall into that trap that life is all about "us". So taking some time to care about our neighbors is so important to help make this a better world and to teach our children to love others as well.

Since we are all mostly full-time mothers, we dont have the time - or babysitters - to help build a Habitat for Humanity house. But I absolutely love what they do at Habitat and wanted to support them. So what we did was adopt a new Habitat family with preschool-aged children like us! We collected books for the 3-year old boy and 2-year old girl as well as handpainted them personalized bookshelves! Habitat for Humanity is helping them break out of poverty housing and build a new, safe home for them to raise their family. With a solid home foundation, our books will help the children now be raised on a strong eductional foundation as well. I couldn't be happier for them and thankful for the wonderful and generous Stroller Strides families who supported this project!