Love, Sullivan 2014

THIS is the place to post your acts of kindness for Sullivan's birthday today.  Commenting should be easy, I have it set to let you comment using google, blogger, just your name, or anonymously.

Thanks for helping us celebrate our little boy's birthday in heaven!

Our 1st Act of Kindness for 2014

This was our first act of kindness for Sullivan's birthday this year:

Our church has a fridge full of soda that you can purchase for .50 cents per can.  We prepaid for 5 (since Sullivan is turning 5) sodas and left a sign on the money bucket in the refrigerator.

9 days to go. . .

Just 9 short days until our baby boy will spend his 5th birthday in heaven.  We hope to see lots of people join us in honoring his life by doing an act (or two, or ten!) of kindness for others.

One thing we are really excited about doing this year is the Coffee Tip.  I've always wanted to do this but we never have. This year while our living children are at VBS, my husband and I are going in to a restaurant to order just coffees and then leaving a bIg tip when we leave.  Waitresses work so. hard. We hope to brighten the day of one of them on Sullivan's birthday!

We have other acts of kindness up our sleeves but we'll wait to share those until later!

Coming Soon: Love, Sullivan 2014

Heads up! Just a little over one month to go until Sullivan's fifth birthday!  We'd love to honor him once again by doing acts of kindness for others.  We love when you all join in!

New this year, Love, Sullivan will take place entirely here, on the blog.  In past years we have done it here and on facebook.  This year we're streamlining and will have a designated post HERE for you to comment with your act of kindness. :)

Please, use facebook/email/social media to tell your friends and family about Sullivan and his special birthday. Just be sure to come back here on his birthday to see what's going on.

June 12. 2014!

Love, Sullivan (2013)

As we prepare for Sullivan's 4th birthday in heaven, we are again asking you to join in and honor his memory by doing an act of kindness.

June 12th is now less than 2 weeks away!  We have 125 people in the facebook event committed to doing this with us!

Please join in, you can post here or on the facebook group about your act of kindness.

1. Mow the neighbor's lawn
2. Cut flowers from your garden and deliver to someone
3. Slow down and let someone merge/pull out in traffic
4. Play a game with your kids that you usually wouldn't (like Lucky Ducks. Most annoying game ever!)
5. Take extras from your pantry to a food pantry.
6. Drop off your gently used baby items at a shelter or pregnancy center.
7. Wash your spouse's car windows
8. Send an e-card to someone who needs cheered up
9. Deliver a thank you card to your dentist, hair stylist, secretary, union hall, pastor, or favorite local eatery.
10. Visit a cemetery and look for flowers that have fallen over, stand them back up at the grave.

1. Go to a drive-thru for the purpose of paying for the person behind you (this is SUPER fun!  The most expensive I've ever had was $7, most are $3 or less).
2. Go in a gas station and pay for the next person to get a soda.
3. Take a magazine to a friend who is stuck at home a lot (elderly, someone with chronic illness, a new mom)
4. Take a boquet of flowers from the grocery store and start passing them out (in the store, at a park, at the mall)
5. Buy a starbucks gift card, go in and wait for someone to come in. Hand them the card and leave.
6. Take cold bottled water to road crews, a construction site, etc.
7. Bring a tray of homemade cookies to your librarians.
8. Visit a local toy store, buy a gift card, and leave it, asking them to give it to the next person who checks out.
9. Take scrapbook supplies to any local hospital with a NICU (they make pages for the parents and decorate the baby's beds)
10. Stop at a children's lemonade stand and buy a cup...or ten.  :)  

1. Stand at the gas station and when a car pulls up behind you, let them know that this tank of gas is on you.
2. Visit a restaurant, sit and order a coffee.  When you're done, leave a $20 bill for a tip.
3. Purchase boxes of Drumstick ice creams and go drop them off at your firestation
4. Contribute materials to a group taking a work trip to areas affected by natural disasters.
5. Pack a care package for a soldier
6. While at the grocery store, pay for the person in front of you when they get ready to check out.
7. Support teachers and schools through Donor's Choose.  In particular, schools in Joplin, Missouri are still trying to recover from the effects of the tornadoes.  Here is a link to all the schools asking for help in Joplin. 
8. Give a flock of chickens through Heifer International ($20).
9. Help end deaths caused by malaria.  Nothing But Nets can provide a life saving net for a family for just $10.
10. Pay off someone's bill.  You can stop in your local electric office, water office, mechanic's shop, anywhere!  Tell them you want to pay off someone's bill!

Finally, our two favorite charities at this time of year:
Molly Bears: 

They provide bears for bereaved mothers.  The bears are custom created to weigh the same as your baby weighed.  My Sullivan Ronny bear weighs 7lb, 4oz.  It is SO special!  We love to donate to Molly Bears so that other mommies can have the same comfort.  Bears cost about $45 for Molly Bears to make and ship, but you can donate ANY amount, AND they accept paypal!

March of Dimes:

Most are familiar with this organization that provides support to NICU moms and funds research and programs to prevent premature birth.  While Sullivan was not NICU or premature birth, we support March of Dimes.  If we can help one family NOT have to experience what we have, it is worth it.

Thank you for your support and for helping Sullivan leave his mark on the world by doing acts of kindness in his honor!

Coming soon--Love, Sullivan (2013)

Are you all ready to do your act of kindness of Sullivan's birthday this year!  I've got a post coming up soon with more details and LOTS of ideas of acts of kindness!

Love, Sullivan (his 3rd birthday)

In honor of Sullivan's 3rd birthday, please consider joining in and doing an act of kindness on June 12th.  

Sullivan would be turning 3 on June 12, 2012. Instead of having a party for him at home, he's having his party in Heaven. To honor him and celebrate his life, I'm asking that everyone do an act of service on his birthday. It doesn't have to be big or expensive. Just something kind done for someone else in honor of Sullivan. Do your act of kindness on his birthday and then post here OR ON FACEBOOK with what you did. Sullivan's birthday is an emotional time for us, but seeing all the good done in his honor will make the day a little easier. We had great success with this last year, here are some things that were done to give you ideas: --donate toys to church nursery --cut the grass for your neighbor or a single mom --drop off a fruit basket or brownies to the Labor and Delivery room of your local hospital --buy the soda for the person behind you at the gas station  --pay for the person behind you at the drive thru --Leave an extra large tip when eating out --pass out popsicles in the neighborhood --take baby items to the Crisis Pregnancy Center --clean out dad's car --donate to March of Dimes, American Cancer Society, American Heart Association, Samaritan's Purse, etc ************************************************ Please invite your friends to this event. I'd love to have people we don't even know doing things for Sullivan. ***********************************************