Thanksgiving Giveaway

I love Thanksgiving. The cool weather, the FOOD, the four-day holiday, ballgames, friends and the kick-off to the whole holiday season.

I especially love it because it makes me stop and reflect on all my blessings and realize that there are those families that are really struggling.

Most of us have had to really take a look at our spending habits, driving habits and various other bugetary items and make adjustments.

With that thought in mind, I thought that I would offer a true Thanksgiving type giveaway.

The prize is a gift certificate to, oh I hate this, Walmart. I am a Target girl but not every place has a Target and not all Target stores have groceries. Unfortunately, WM is everywhere.

The idea is, you win a gift card for some Thanksgiving groceries and I will send an extra one to you to GIVE to someone else. Preferably to someone that could use a little extra grocery money.

Here are the rules: sign up and tell me what you are thankful for. Leave me a way to contact you (very important). Also, tell me how you would give away the extra card. Be creative. Mr. Random will do his thing. I would really like the winners
to inspire us by telling of your giveaway opportunity/experience in a later comment.

Easy peasy.

Contest will close Saturday night at 6 PM CDT and winners will be announced later that evening.

I love you, Peeps!

One Day to Give

KRISTEN at We Are THAT Family is hosting a ONE DAY TO GIVE challenge to the blogworld.

Basically, as a Peep you reach out to someone and do something for them without expecting some kind of return for yourself.

I had the perfect thing. I won't go in to the big details, but God gave me the opportunity to donate some computer lab stuff for a Christian school in my area.

As a former teacher and a computer illiterate, I thought this would be something the children could start in the upper elementary to get some of the basics under their belts by the time they get to high school. This is a fairly new school so they don't have lots of infrastructure yet.

This is nothing that I did or should get credit for. I simply passed on a blessing I received from God to some little kids who could really benefit from a computer lab.

This has made me realize that I shouldn't wait for a special occasion to do this. I should make myself available ALL the time. So, I'm going to be more deliberate with giving from now on. Maybe once a month do something specific for someone else...and it doesn't have to involve money.

So, I'm challenging you, Peeps! Pass on some grace and love to someone else this weekend. YOUR blessing will be tremendous