Winter Wonderland for Sandy Hook Elementary

Snowflakes for Sandy Hook!

From the Connecticut PTSA:

When school resumes for Sandy Hook, it will be in a new building. Parent-volunteers are working to ensure that the students are welcomed back by a winter wonderland with the entire school decorated with as many unique snowflakes as possible. We encourage senders to be as creative as possible, remembering that no two snowflakes are alike. Pl

ease make and send snowflakes by January 12, 2013 to the Connecticut PTSA at:

Connecticut PTSA
60 Connolly Parkway
Building 12, Suite 103
Hamden, CT 06514

Donations will be accepted indefinitely to the Connecticut PTSA "Sandy Hook Fund" to provide ongoing support to the community. Please send checks to the Connecticut PTSA address listed above. Group fundraising projects may include walk-a-thons, spirits days, pajama days, etc., which may be scheduled at your convenience.

Donate via Paypal here: http://www.ctpta.org/About-CT-PTA/SANDY-HOOK-FUND.html

Our instructions for making snowflakes found HERE

Hurricane Sandy

I was thinking about this a lot over the weekend as we were going about our normal lives. How selfish I felt I was being. Here I am going about my life in our 90 degree weather and there are people sick, homeless, cold, hungry... I've seen a lot of companies and tv stations urging for donations to the Red Cross but I wondered if such a large corporation could possibly help everyone fast enough - so much red tape (no pun intended) then I came across this heart wrenching blog post from Jenna at Sweet Fine Day

It made me realize how much goes completely unknown to most of us. How much suffering and saddness something like this brings. 

Jenna put up a great list of local charities that are directly helping hurricane victims in NY right now.

PLEASE if you are on the East Coast and know or have read blog posts like these from different areas let us know in the comments, I'm sure there is a great number of these small, reputable organizations helping out right now. It's always hard being so far away and wanting to give to an honest and good organization so any recommendations we can get help a lot!

Are you doing anything to help? We'd love ideas!