Day 16 and 17 Gardening and Good Food!

Day 16: On Monday, I had intended on planting some flowers in the garden for momma, but she wasn't sure where she wanted them and had already began to weed in the front yard. I went out there to help and we got a little more than half of it done but then it started getting hot so we stopped.

 

I also trimmed the holly bush up so it didn't look all scraggly.

Yesterday for day 17, I decided to buy dinner for the fam and get our usual taco tuesday deal from a bomb place called Taco Ready. If you're local to the Covina area, check it out. It's on San Bernardino, just west of Barranca. Really great Mexican food!

Today is Day 18 and I plan on writing a letter or two(or three!) to people who have impacted my life. I can't wait to do this!

And there are only three days left! I'll be baking cookies for the mailman, sewing a case for momma's new glasses, and volunteering at the banquet before the Covina Christmas Parade!


I hope these posts have inspired you to do some good in your own communitites. That's really what this is all about. Not just me serving people around me, but inspiring others to join in and do their part too.
Love to you all!
Kris

Day 15 Delightful Dinner

No I didn't forget day 14... I just didn't do anything. Woops! I plan on doing an extra something in the next few days to make up for it...

But today, I made a special dinner for my family! I looked around on Pinterest for some tasty recipes and ended up making chicken and lemon garlic green beans and potatoes. It was pretty good but left a funny after taste in my mouth. My fam seemed to like it though, because it was all gone!

The table set all nicee...

 Chicken! Green beans are underneath.

Strawberry jello parfaits! These were also delicious but mine didn't come out as pretty as the ones on pinterest... O well! haha

Surprisingly, I really enjoyed making dinner and getting everything all special. I will definitely be using my new Pinterest account to the advantage of my family :P

Love to you all!
Only six days left!

Day 12 and 13

On Thanksgiving, I made pumpkin snickerdoodle cookies with the intention of going to one of the stores having a black friday sale and passing them out to the people waiting in line. Well after going to four different stores... we were out of luck! I guess the stores just stayed open the whole time? And there wasn't any real waiting in lines? Lame. Black Friday is taking over Thanksgiving :(

 

 

Anyway, our attempt failed, but I decided to take those cookies and deliver them the next day to the Covina Police Dept. I don't have a pic of this but I'm sure they were grateful to have a yummy snack!

Day 12-sorta fail. Day 13 success!

Only a week left of 21 Days of Kindness!!

Love to you.

Day 10 and 11 Cookies and Change

Yesterday, I baked chocolate chip cookies for a friend who just had surgery and his family. I then delievered them to his house that night where I am pretty sure they all enjoyed them :)

 

Today for Day 11, I stole an idea from another birthday acts of kindness blog and decided to put some change on a vending machine for the next person who came along.

 

 Sorta hard to tell in the picture but it's a machine that fills up those five gallon water jugs.

 

Hopefully someone is touched by a stranger's kindness and that they get to fill up their bottle for free!

 

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Day 9 Give Life

Today Dad and I donated blood to the Red Cross! After trying in high school(they ran out of supplies), getting tattoos, and leaving the country, I was finally able to do it! I was a little nervous but everything went great.

 

Of course my camera died when we got there, so all I have are some bad cell phone pics.

 



This is my arm if you can even tell 

Finishing up

 

Dad and I chillin and eating snacks after we got it done!

If you haven't done it, you should seriously consider donating blood. It's super easy and pretty much painless. If you're healthy, look for a blood drive near you and go do it!

Days 6, 7, 8 Helpful Hands

I've been a horrible blogger the last few days. Sorry guys! The past couple days have been pretty chill acts of kindness that aren't really out of the ordinary but I have to trust that they were helpful. Day 6(Fri) my sister and I helped my parents set up church for the annual Thanksgiving Breakfast. We have to undo all the rows of chairs, set up tables, and put all the chairs around them and decorate each table. Luckily we had a sweet lady named Dori who did all the cute decorations. Awesome!

 

All set!

 

Day 7 I made coffee cake for the Thanksgiving breakfast. Something that was simple but allowed my mom to use the time for something else.

 

I used the crappy camera... but it sure did taste good!

 

Day 8 was sort of a failure. Sorry to let everyone down(more like myself...haha). I didn't have anything planned, and then it escaped me throughout the day. So I didn't exactly do something worth writing about. I did help clean up at church after the breakfast which was helpful and kind I suppose.

Blog about today (Day 9) coming soon!

Day 5 Pick up Your Trash!

Today my lovely sister and mother helped me out with picking up the trash in the alley behind our house. We walk by it often on our way to the store and I thought it would be a good thing to add to our list.

Workers, truckers, and random people take breaks back there and often leave their trash behind. It's also a place that is frequented by homeless people. We had our work cut out for us!

 

After getting about halfway down the alley, we all got holes in our gloves and decided to stop for sanitary reasons... The other half is still littered with trash so we might go back another day(after we get more gloves) and finish that. But what we did today, more or less filled up two large trash bags! Yes!

If you're just now joining this blog, read about 21 Days of Kindness here.