Recent Posts for LauraReaux

This is great!  Thanks for passing it on.

That is disappointing.  Claire, did you only get email addresses or did you ever get a phone number for the school?

These photos are from a trip that a photographer took to help at an orphanage in Rwanda.  So moving.  A little more of a push to remember how many people need our help.

Awesome.  Congrats on reaching one of your goals.

It's so great that so many people are still showing up to walk, and hopefully getting inspired to do even more.  What Taylor said in the post after this one about the price of one Coke being the same amount it takes for medication to save 2 lives for that day is such a great point.  I was just talking to my husband about that.  Think of how much we spend at Starbucks in a month.  If, say 4 or 5 times, I decide not to go through the drive through today and go home and donate the money I would have spent on TakeTheWalk.net instead, one life would be saved.  That is so beyond worth it... and so incredibly simple.

I love reading all of the things you guys are doing!  I've been talking to my kids, mainly my 5-year-old son, about all of the people around the world who need help with so many different things.  My goal is to find a different way for them (us) to help every month from here on out.  It might be to come with me and help stock the pantry at a place here called The Hope Center, or it might be to make and sell something to raise money for something.  Maybe we can plan to sponsor our own walk sometime next year.  I'm borrowing a book from the library today called Raising Unselfish Children in a Self-Asborbed World that I'm hoping will give me even more ideas.

Keep replying with what you're doing, guys!