A friend of mine told me about Xerox and the Let’s Say Thanks program and I think everyone should participate.

Let’s Say Thanks is a way for you to very quickly send your appreciation to a U.S. soldier. 

Go to www.LetsSayThanks.com, pick a greeting card designed by a child, choose a message (or write your own) and Xerox will ship the card to somebody currently serving overseas.

Seriously.  It’s that easy.  It costs nothing and it takes less than 2 minutes.

Even though it isn’t quite personal and I won’t know who will receive my postcard, I think it will be appreciated.  I think soldiers need reminders that civilians care.  And civilians need reminders that soldiers are doing an incredibly difficult job. 

Take a minute to send a card!

 I feel like I’m missing my inspiration and creativity lately.  Where did it go?  My windows are shut as the A/C cools the house, so it didn’t escape through those, unless it can seep through poorly installed window panes.  In fact, I’ve barely even been outside lately.  Maybe the inspiration forgot to follow me in the last time I ventured outside…That must be it. 

That’s why I’m really grateful for good ideas like this one. 

Kelly, from According to Kelly is hosting a Favorite Things Swap, where you swap 3 of your favorite things with another blogger somewhere else in this vast world.  You can sign up to participate by clicking on the links above. 

Now, I’m off to the outdoors to find my hiding inspiration.

My husband and I ran across the book, “I Like You,” by Sandol Stoddard Warburg and illustrated by Jacqueline Chwast, a few years ago, and fell in love with it.  The illustrations are really fun and cute.  But the writing is what I love the most.  The book is a list of reasons of why “I like you,” written in such a fun and silly way, and with childlike logic.  The writing style is so innocent and sweet.  The first page says,

I like you and I know why    I like you because you are a good person to like

How can you disagree with that?  And how can you not want to read more?  On some pages, it’s as if Warburg was writing specifically about the goofy relationship of my husband and me.

You know how to be silly   That’s why I like you   Boy are you ever silly   I never met anybody sillier than me till I met you   I like you because You know when it’s time to stop being silly   Maybe day after tomorrow   Maybe never   Oops too late   it’s quarter past silly

I like you because you know where I’m ticklish and you don’t tickle me there except just a little tiny bit sometimes.  But if you do then I know where to tickle you too

It would make the perfect Valentine’s gift!  (which is only a month away!)