My mother crocheted blankets, 18" squares used as "kangaroo" covers for the NICU parents (when holding the babies skin-to-skin, the little blankets provide some privacy.) Larger blankets were given to our local military wounded warriors. I crocheted kangaroos also.
My granddaughter volunteered to assist as needed, sometimes sorting donations, folding and packaging items, etc. She even completed her community service project for school at TOL, making an informative powerpoint presentation for her school's open house.
With my mother's declining health and subsequent death, we have not visited TOL for awhile. But this summer my granddaughter and I are trying to put in some volunteer hours again, between her summer camp schedules. Today she used the sewing machine, a vintage straight stitch Singer, to add labels and close little fleece bead bags used as positioning aides for the preemies. I finished two more crocheted kangaroos and am knitting another.
My daughter will be donating her wedding dress to TOL which will be used to make burial garments and to line small caskets. It's a wonderful thing to be able to help others and I'm happy to see that my family puts their love into action.
Like mother, like daughter, and so it goes.
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"And he took the children in his arms, put his hands on them and blessed them." Mark 10:16
My daughter will be donating her wedding dress to TOL which will be used to make burial garments and to line small caskets. It's a wonderful thing to be able to help others and I'm happy to see that my family puts their love into action.
Like mother, like daughter, and so it goes.
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"And he took the children in his arms, put his hands on them and blessed them." Mark 10:16
Over the last couple of years my elderly mother, granddaughter, and I volunteered at our local Threads of Love (TOL), a non-profit (www.threadsoflove.org) that primarily provides support to NICU babies and families. Working with high risk pregnancies and critically ill children is not my forte, but the ministry is needed and we all found something we could do.