Love is in the Air
Imagine love replacing germs and sickness in The
air at The Children’s Hospital at OU Medical
Center in celebration of Valentine’s Day.
Imagine love replacing frowns and sadness .
From the Little Art Room
in the Jimmy Everest Center for Cancer and
Blood Disorders in Children...
On January 20th,
patients and volunteers will launch a
“Love Is In The Air Campaign”
lasting through February 14, 2009.
Our goal is to spread a feeling of love in the air
by doing acts of kindness for others
(doctors, nurses, employees, visitors, valet, etc.)
We hope our campaign will catch on throughout
the clinics, into the halls of the hospital and
throughout the ou health sciences center to
create an environment of love.
A blog will be available on the Oklahoma
Children’s Cancer Association’s website
http://www.helpkidsfightcancer.org/
to share your acts of kindness.
Groups in Oklahoma city, surrounding areas and
hopefully around the world will
Be participating with Jimmy Everest cancer
patients by doing acts of kindness and
encouraging others to pass it on.
We invite you to help us make a difference this
Valentine’s Day by joining our campaign.
Together we can prove that
“Love Is In The Air.”
My goal is to do an act of kindness everyday til Valentine's Day.
ReplyDeleteThey may be simple but I encourage you to do the same.
The other day at Hobby Lobby I was checking out with the employee who was going to carry out my large framed picture. We were among the chocolate Valentine candy. It was 4:00 o'clock--candy time. We were discussing chocolates, Valentine's Day so when he loaded the picture in my car, I gave him 2 chocolate bars and told him to pass it on. He couldn't believe it. I got in my car and thought, "Yep, love will be in the air by Valentine's Day."
My husband and I are cooking food today for my Grandma. She can't cook for herself anymore and the state program she is on is not taking very good care of her....We have been cooking meals for her, packaging them as individual meals, and storing them in her freezer so all she has to do is microwave them. She really appreciates it and it is such a simple thing to do.
ReplyDeleteI'm posting for my dad because he's not that great with technology. :) My dad eats out quite a bit, and every couple of weeks, he'll pay for someone else's meal...He'll look around the restaurant and pick out someone that he thinks needs it - it could be an elderly person, a person in uniform, someone with kids...Recently, he and my mom were eating at Jimmy's Egg...Two elderly women were there that he had bought breakfast for a couple of years ago - they remembered him! They thanked him for what he had done, told him how much it had meant to them at the time, and before they left they had repaid the favor.
ReplyDeleteI saw someone at Irma's buy dinner for an award winning OKC Vet and his wife
ReplyDeleteA group of ladies at Crossings Community Church, Stitches of Love,
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are an unselfish act of kindess and work of love. Thank you ladies.
The other day I was at the video store and was waiting in a longer line than usual to rent my movies. While waiting the strategically placed candy rack was gently luring me into "sweet" submission. My trance was broken by the 2 patient movie-renters in front of me,a cute little girl about 4 years old and her mother. The girl asked very politely "mommy can we get some candy today?". Her mother replied "not this time maybe the next". I held my super sour patch kids pack in my hand along with my movies...and then the light bulb went on! I looked confusingly at the huge rack of candy and then at the little girl and asked "there are so many kinds! How do you know which ones are good?". The little girl who I am sure had been told many times before not to talk to strangers just looked up at me and silently shrugged her shoulders, as she attempted to hide behind her mother's large handbag. Her mother reassured her, "it's ok, you can talk to her". The shy little girl then looked at me again and acted as if she honestly didn't know. I then coaxed her a bit more, well which kind do you usually get? She pointed shyly to a vague area that had about 5 different packs hanging all together. Her mother then said "we usually get the gummie bears, don't we sweetie, they're pretty good!" The little girl smiled and nodded in agreement. The line started to move and as soon as the 2 went up to the counter i grabbed a box of gummie bears. I waited anxiously hoping that all would work out and i would make it up to the other register in time to pay for the candy and give it to the little girl before she left the store. As soon as the register was open i hurriedly asked the cashier to please ring up the candy...she insisted she needed my phone number first and then her dyslexia kicked in as it took her 3 tries to enter it in right. "Oh no" i thought, as they made their way behind me and towards the door, but my cashier managed to ring the candy up just in time and as they were not more than 2 feet away from me, i called "wait!" the little girl turned around and as i placed the candy in her small little hands i said "these are for you!". Her smile was priceless. She and her mom thanked me graciously as they left and i could hear the little girl tell her mother that she couldn't wait to tell daddy! I finished checking out and my dyslexic cashier apologized for not facilitating the transaction more quickly. I assured her all was well and as i made it to the parking lot a large suburban pulled around and the windows rolled down. It was the little girl, waving at me to say thank you one last time. Her father was driving and he thanked me as well. I let them know about our little craft room and how it was now their turn to put some love in the air!
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