A Portuguese Love

Please take some time to get to know The Fresh Air Fund Project ! What do Fresh Air children enjoy? •Playing in the backyard •Laughing in the sunshine •Catching fireflies •Riding bicycles •Learning to swim •Running barefoot through the grass •Gazing at the stars on moonlit nights •Building sandcastles •Making new friends •Simple pleasures of life away from the inner-city Summer may seem far away, but NYC children are currently participating in Fresh Air programs, from weekly tutoring sessions to job shadowings to weekend retreats at Fund camps in upstate New York! FAF Career Awareness Program serves more than 300 youngsters in middle and high school. It also has new leadership programs for young women to develop their “can-do” attitudes! No matter the season, Fresh Air children remain involved, excited, and forward-thinking. The Fresh Air Found needs loyal friends like you to continue serving thousands of New York City children throughout the year. Every...

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Modern Blessed Mary Kids Christmas Celebration Invitation Receiving Christmas Cards in my childhood was as good as getting presents. I loved to display it on a table. My mother probably told her friends and family that I enjoyed it very much. So I got cards from her friends as they always sent an extra card for me. Later I learned how to write and soon I was also sending cards. In my teenage years, an early celebration of Christmas started with an early visit to local shops to buy a small pile of cards at the beginning of the month of December. As a result of it I have a huge collection of cards and still love to receive them, send them and create it. At Zazzle.com it's possible to upload our designs and sell them. Last year I sold my first Zazzle Christmas Postcard. It was a great feeling! Today I create Christmas cards and spent a lot of time enjoying other Zazzle creators' work too. It's hard to pick just one, they are all great, I know. But I am sure that most peop...

Have you got a calendar for the next year? Let me give you one! Easy to do and almost free. Keep it to yourself or give it to a friend. It presents 12 cute characters that will please kids. In 2011 avoid secondhand smoke exposure everyday! It is harmful to you and your kids health! Here's how to do it! 1º Go to my SCRIBD page to download the 7 pages PDF file. 2º Print the file in your office printer using a good size A4 paper. 3º Cut it with X acto knife and ruler using the printed guides. 4º Use a CD jewel box as a stand-flip. 5º Keep all the sheets inside the CD box. 6º Avoid secondhand smoke exposure all year!

Visit the site! Note to my readers! I am making this post because I believe in The Fresh Air Fund value. This is not a paid ad or anything like that. Please take some time to know this agency and its work with children. Thank you! THE FRESH AIR FUND, an independent, not-for-profit agency, has provided free summer vacations to more than 1.7 million New York City children from low-income communities since 1877. Nearly 10,000 New York City children enjoy free Fresh Air Fund programs annually. In 2008, close to 5,000 children visited volunteer host families in suburbs and small town communities across 13 states from Virginia to Maine and Canada. 3,000 children also attended five Fresh Air camps on a 2,300-acre site in Fishkill, New York. The Fund’s year-round camping program serves an additional 2,000 young people each year. In 2009, The Fresh Air Fund 's Volunteer Host Family program , called Friendly Town , gave close to 5,000 New York City boys and girls, ages six to 18, f...

In the III century AD, the Roman Emperor Claudius II decreed null and void and prohibited marriages, because without family men would be easier to recruit for the fronts of the war. Valentinus violates the unjust imperial decree by performing marriages in secret. Discovering its audacity, he is arrested, tortured, and sentenced to death for violating the law. In prison, he gets messages of encouragement and flowers from people who believed in love. The daughter of his jailer, blind from birth, visited him frequently during his captivity, bringing him food. Valentine describes the world to her and speaks of God. One daylight illuminates the jail. She bursts into tears because a miracle had happened - she regained vision! With the miracle, her entire family converted to Christianity. On the eve of death, Valentinus wrote a last letter to the girl, with whom he had fallen in love, asking her not to part from God, and signed "From your Valentine". From this legend, and over ti...