...and grows...

The books Scott recommended were great, and we also enjoyed Three Cups of Tea about Greg Mortensen building schools for girls in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Monumentally inspiring!

I met with my friend Sue today and shared the idea. She was also on board and offered to by on the Board! I signed her up over a cup of tea. We decided to meet weekly to play with fabric ideas, blanket and bag designs, and discuss general "Board-stuff!"

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The circle grows...

So today while having a deep conversation about education with my friend Scott, I told him about my plan. I gave him all of the details and then said, "I need to do this. It's just time." He simply responded, "Then you have to." And I knew that it was true.

So I laid out the plans, and he said, "So you are Sewing the Seeds of Literacy!" And I knew that was it!

He also said he sews, and so I told him that we would need to count on his contributions. He was on board, as always!

He suggested a few books that I should read:

The Traveler's Gift
The Lost Choice
Leaving Microsoft

Topics about giving back, and the last one about building libraries...

I have ordered them and will be catching up on our vacation to Florida next week.

It is all just unfolding step by step...

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Ed's in!

So, no surprise here, just lots of joy! Ed is right on board, with promises to build a website...blog and all!

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And away we go...

Okay, so I guess this is it! Not sure what overwhelms me most...beginning this adventure, or actually the fact that I am now "blogging!"

There is no time like the present to begin an adventure that has been mulling around in my mind now for about a year. I knew that I would love to make little blankets for babies in orphanages, but I felt there was something else, something more to this. It all came together on evening in Half-Price Books as I found myself, as usual, buying children's books with no real recipient in mind. Just buying books thinking about how happy some child would be to receive it! It was at that moment that it became clear to me...I could combine my love of giving baby blankets and my love for giving books and find someone who would love feeling the love behind the giving. Eureka!

I couldn't wait to talk to Ed about it (my husband, best friends, and hands-down my most enthusiastic supporter!)

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