Layli’s half birthday was last month which was surprisingly a little emotional for me. I can’t believe my baby is a half year old already! I started thinking about what I want to do for her first birthday. The thought of her receiving more toys worries me since she already has a closet full of stuff. So the hunt for gift giving ideas began. I think the best idea we’ve come up with so far is in lieu of gifts to ask our guests to perform random acts of kindness and then have them recorded in a scrapbook at her party.
It got me to thinking…what about her future birthdays? I would love to do something like donate all her gifts to foster children or some other cause but I would feel bad if someone gave her something that they really wanted Layli to have. But then Billy came up with a great idea!- she can keep all of her new gifts but then she’ll have to give the same number of toys from her toy box away to a cause of her choice.
Any other ideas out there?
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October 19, 2007 at 3:57 pm
Leila
First off, I love the changes you’ve made. i love the banner… you’re the one that’s gonna have to help me on that.
Second, I hear ya on the stuff quandary. I like Billy’s idea of “in with the new, out with the old”. I’m going to suggest to Baha’is to donate money to the Fund in Julieta’s name. Our friends of the Faith can donate to other causes.
Also, I got this idea from a comment on Mojan’s BLOG: have people doing the random act of kindness, planting a tree, volunteering, etc to take a polaroid (or picture of any sort) so that you can add it to your scrapbook!
We’ll definitely have to do something like that since all of our family lives far away.
December 17, 2007 at 12:35 am
ashley
I love the way that her nose is smashed into the glass, but she doesn’t care at all!