Can you believe that the first month of 2019 is already behind us? How DOES that happen?! Wow! One of the "in" things to do as 2018 came to a close was to choose a word for the upcoming year. We didn't do that. We didn't have to. Why? Because we found that there is one word that keeps choosing us! A word that is everywhere we look even when we're not really looking. A word that, above all, keeps us going. A word that has the potential to make a difference in this wor

Meet Courage to Be Kind Medallion recipient, 12-year-old, Kenikki, better known as Kindly Kenikki. Truly the baby of the bunch, her closest sibling just turned 21. Her mom explains, “We thought we were done having children. She was due July 4th. I went into labor March 23rd. I was hospitalized until it was safe to deliver on May 30th. She was born with two holes in her heart, but you’d never know it. She had one plugged and the other closed on its own. We say it’s plugged w

Be sure to read the first blog in our Holiday Series to get the most of out of the Series! After having such wonderful experiences with random acts of kindness during the holidays I knew we couldn’t stop after Christmas. I started asking myself why we wait until Christmas to be so thoughtful and giving. We really shouldn’t have to have a reason. Isn’t this just the way we should live? There are 364 other days in the year and opportunities for kindness abound if you just o

Be sure to read the first post in Our KIND of Christmas to get the most of out of the Series! Read and Seed The second year of Operation Good Deed Doer we decided to leave gift cards in children’s books. I called this Mission Read and Seed because we loved the idea that it could encourage reading while also planting a seed of kindness. So...we seriously just left gift cards in books? Yep. Now, every year on Christmas Eve, with Drew in his Santa suit and his entourage decke

Be sure to read the first post in Our KIND of Christmas to get the most of out of our Holiday Blog Series!! One day after school, Drew couldn’t wait to show me what he had in his pockets. I prepared myself for anything as he unveiled that his pockets were full of…pecans. He’d gathered pecans from the ground under my mom’s pecan tree. He was so excited as he told me, “I got these to share with my family.” He beamed with pride as he laid them out and showed me each one. Tho

Our KIND of Christmas, Holiday Blog Series #1 You probably never thought about the difference between the two. I never thought too much about it until things started to change. Our only, Drew, turned five. I remember his first day of Kindergarten like it was yesterday. It was that same day in August he came home with questions. He was confused because he’d been treated poorly by some kids at school. Then one day I got a call that he’d been punched in the face standing u

Come Together with Kindness Kindness & Anti-bullying Initiative Meet Drew. When we first decided to take action in 2017, Drew did the following videos. Because peer pressure is so incredibly immense, so much so that it can sometimes cause children to go so far as to take their own lives, we wanted to start an initiative that encourages POSITIVE peer pressure! Kind is the new cool, right?! Our Mission We will do our best to help our small corner of the world come together with