Do Good

‘Tis the season for giving. Now where do I start?

December 4, 2009

‘Tis the sea­son for giv­ing, but it can often be hard to know how to help or where to start. Here are a few ideas on how to spread the love beyond your own fam­ily. Donate to a local non­profit If your mail­box looks any­thing like mine this week you know that there are many […]

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Monroe Technology Center Fall Plant Sale: Sept. 16–18, 2009

September 14, 2009

The Monroe Technology Center in Leesburg is hold­ing its fall plant sale this week! I am a fail­ure as a gar­dener, but the plants I bought at MTC’s spring plant sale held up bet­ter than the rest of my attempts. I have found the stu­dents, staff and vol­un­teers work­ing past plant sales to be cour­te­ous and […]

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Ashburn Library Children/Teen Book Sale and Silent Auction

June 21, 2009

Just pop­ping on to my neglected blog to share info on an upcom­ing book sale that has been passed along to me… Come buy used chil­dren and teen books, videos, and music at the Ashburn Library Advisory Board (ALAB) sale on Sat, June 27th, 10 am to 4:30 pm at Ashburn Library ( 43316 Hay Rd […]

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Greener Loudoun

July 12, 2008

GreenerLoudoun is a blog for all you local folks inter­ested in green­ing your lives. It cov­ers a wide range of top­ics — from infor­ma­tion on reuse and recy­cling, to how our choices affect local wildlife, to edu­ca­tional events suit­able for chil­dren. The blog is inter­spersed with fas­ci­nat­ing pho­tographs, as well.  Have a look!

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Reston Interfaith

June 29, 2008

Reston Interfaith, Inc. 11150 Sunset Hills Rd. Suite 210 Reston, VA 20190 (map it) (571) 323‑9555   I don’t have much expe­ri­ence with this group, but I am on their mail­ing list and know they do good work so thought I’d put them out there for folks who are look­ing for a place to donate […]

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Bring Trader Joe’s to Loudoun County

April 17, 2008

It has come to my atten­tion that I am not the only one who wishes we had a Trader Joe’s in Loudoun County. Apparently there is a grass roots effort to attract them to a new shop­ping cen­ter in Ashburn. Hooray! To join this effort all you need to do is fill out Trader Joe’s […]

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Donate Blood (American Red Cross)

November 5, 2007

www.givelife.org 1–800-GIVELIFE It can be hard to find ways to give when we are jug­gling moth­er­hood. A kid free hour on the week­end that involves rest­ing and eat­ing cook­ies is not a bad option. The Red Cross actively pur­sues my hus­band. They track his dona­tion dates and as soon as he is eli­gi­ble again they […]

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