Today I’m taking a break from my outrage at our politicians to pass along word of something that warms my heart and appeals to what my wife refers to as my “head-sized sweet tooth.”
One of my sister’s best friends is a great lady named Alison. Alison has beautiful twin daughters with hearts that are apparently larger than my sweet tooth. Her family has been helping out at a homeless shelter called The Bethany House in Cincinnati and recently, the girls hit upon the idea that they could help further.
One of Bethany House’s services is to help homeless and disadvantaged women find affordable housing. Oftentimes these women have very few possessions as they begin their road to self-sufficiency. Amy and Emma love baking cookies with their mom, and thought it’d be great if these struggling families could enjoy the same family bonding experience in their new homes. So they decided that they’d like to find a way to ensure that there would be the fixings for homemade cookies ready for them as they start their journey.
Well here, I’ll let them tell you their plan:
We are 7-year old twin sisters, and we have started a charity (with a little help from our Mom!) to help homeless moms and kids at The Bethany House Shelter in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Shelter does a great job helping them find a new home and we want to give them a present on moving day. We are going to give each family a jar of homemade oatmeal chocolate chip cookie mix, a cookie sheet, a wooden spoon, a spatula, a pot holder, a gift card to the grocery store, and a “Bake Me Home” cloth grocery bag (because we saw a show about how plastic bags are bad for our Earth). We love making homemade cookies with our Mom. We want other kids to spend time with their moms, and enjoy eating cookies in their new home. Our Dad says we will make the world a better place, one cookie at a time!
This story and more are on their website. Please visit and offer any help you can. With the way the economy is going these days, there are plenty of people who are depending on the kindness of strangers and the warm hearts of amazing little girls.
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They have a wonderful idea there! My kids had a lemonade stand this summer with the neighbor kids. THey decided to give the money to a then un-named charity. We just decided to send our lemonade money to Bake Me Home. Kids helping kids help other kids. Love it!
Thank you, Dave, for posting this on your blog.
Alison, Amy and Emma are really incredible and really excited with this venture. The are doing a spot on the Fox local TV and are being featured in area newspapers and Cincinnati Magazine. The response with donations has been fantastic and has allowed them to expand their initial idea to include gift cards to the local grocery store (Kroger). Please take a moment to go to the link Dave provided, read through it and please consider a small donation. No amount is too small, as you will see on the web site.
Patti, Alison and the girls were touched and thrilled with the donation from the lemonade stand.
Dave, thanks for letting me use this space to ask for some help.
It sounds like they’re getting a lot of advertising in the news, that’s great! They’re going to be busy little girls!!