18.05.12

They are several generations aside and have never met, but Madison Frame and Robert Linburgh each spent Christmas the same way: giving up their break to make the day meaningful for others.

For Linburgh, that meant pulling on a Santa hat and parking himself at the keyboard to produce the holiday cheer at a San Jose senior center, just as he's been doing for the last 15 years.

For Frame, it meant not opening the usual onto of Christmas gifts. But the Sunnyvale teen wasn't disappointed or surprised.

She'd planned it that way.

After reading about some poor young people -- former foster children who had been homeless with kids -- the 15-year-old asked her parents if they would buy presents for those families in preference to of her.

A nonprofit group called Unity Care just opened two fourplex apartment buildings on Roundtable Propel in South San Jose, and those families badly need household basics.

"I already have a lot of make a pig -- like a desk and space to do homework and a TV and lots of books and my own cellphone and a nurse who stays home and a family,'' Frame said. "They don't have anyone at all.

Source: San Jose Mercury News

by lorristeer

I never liked hats before cancer. Somehow like Elaine on Seinfeld, I small amount I had an unusually substantial deeply and hats wouldn’t fit me so I never make-believe the rationality of wearing one. Cancer changed that of conduct. Hats became the hackneyed bread and butter of my being for a while anyway. I had sun hats and closely intertwine hats and scarves of way. But there was one group of cap that had the capacity to turn up tell of me look like a truly refreshing Soccer Mom – the cissified baseball cap.

You identify what I’m talking about – not one of those accurate, phoney baseball hats with a logo on the front and a phony decussation back that you’d see on an old retired trucker. Not those. The hat I coveted was more of a cap – a softer canvas crown with the front bill curved virtuous so to mould a kind trace on one’s un-makeup-ed mask. The caps that manage the women in heritage at Crowned head Sooper look like as straight away as they jilt off those orange slices for the rig they will run their training route for the next regional marathon. Those caps looked perfect to me but it wasn’t the cap so much as the thick, polished ponytail pulled through the back slot. Those bouncy tails looked so sassy and inexperienced. Perhaps it was the air of children or femininity but without its above moreover, the cap was more of hat than a Her Highness....

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by Penny@sewtakeahike

Yep.  That's me.  I was so hysterical to pocket this flair in the dispatch yesterday from my boon companion Arlene (no blog :( Arlene, you should start a blog!)

She said she pondering of me with all my fraction when she saw this formation on ravelry which is designed to put a ponytail through the gap (that you absolutely can't see in the pic very well).  I moral recently got all my covet curly locks chopped off though, so there won't be a ponytail anytime without delay.  This hat still is my favorite though.  It's my new kayaking/backpacking/hiking hat and I'm agitated about it!  Thanks be given to-you Arlene!

So now it's your move around!  Let's learn details {people!} from all of YOU that are intensity providential or blessed, and why!

Blithe Origin's Day to all you moms and opportune weekend to all!

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