Thank you KAS - from the bottom of my heart
I started writing this comment in the 'Anyone feel like a chat?' thread, but then I thought it needed a thread of it's own.
I've been very busy the past month or two, and I've had a HUGE week this week, I've worked about 65 hours at work, and I'm still nowhere near being on top of things. I've been staying up til 2am, or getting up at 4am to get work done. There is something strange about replying to emails in your pajamas!
It's Friday night and I'm trying to stay up until at least 8:30 pm (!) before I go to bed. I've got nothing on tomorrow morning (wooo hoo - sleep in!), and then we're off to see our nephew's school musical in the afternoon (and give my niece her requested slip over!) School work Saturday night, and then a lazy Sunday morning at home is in order I think! I'll have to go into work Sunday afternoon to get ready for the week, and I'm sure by Sunday night the cleaning and the laundry will be screaming for attention!
Hopefully after next week things will calm down a bit (hopefully!) KAS has been a real blessing to me in the past little while. As I've said before, the monotony of plain knitting is really important to help me unwind. Seeing one of my squares in the lates ezine was a really big boost - encouragement for me to go on making the effort of organising kids, squares and postage! I really enjoy checking in the forum, too. Kind responses and cheerful comments really mean a lot to me. If I need a boost during the day I will try to squeeze in a few minutes to see if someone has replied or left a comment on a photo - it warms my heart to see that.
So thank you KAS, for all you give to me.
Thank you for the sense of community across the oceans.
Thank you for providing me with opportunity to learn new knitting skills, which I can use for me, for my friends and family, and for many who I will never meet. .
Thank you for the kind words, the messages of encouragment and the thoughtful touches.
Thank you for the support I get for knowing that across the miles we are linked, stitch by stitch.
Thank you for reminding me that I can make a difference, and thank you for the photos which prove it.
Thank you for providing me with such a wonderful platform to build a culture of service amongst my students. Students can DO SOMETHING - make squares. Others can fundraise, donate wool and sell ice cream. Others can count squares, wrap in brown paper and cover in entire rolls of packing tape. Others still drop off squares from their grandmas, and share in the excitement of seeing them in photos. Having the opportunity to develop the culture of service in my school through KAS is invaluable to me.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to help the children face the double perils of AIDS and extreme poverty.
Thank you for helping me to help them.
Thank you for showing me the photos that are proof that my work does count, that my work does make a difference.
Thank you for helping me show these beautiful, precious children that yes, someone does care.
Thank you KAS, and everyone who is a part of it, for helping me to change the world.
And thank you KAS, for changing me.
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Permalink Reply by Harrison's mom on -
Oh Elizabeth, if anyone comes into my office right now they will wonder why I'm crying. That was very lovely. (oops my boss came in and I was sitting tissue in hand)
I think we all probably feel the same but I certainly couldn't have put it ino works as well.
Jeni
xx
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Permalink Reply by Elaine Jones on -
Elizabeth, I think you have summed up perfectly the way so many of us feel about KAS. I had never joined a forum before and this is the only one I have joined. I get so much support from so many kind and wonderful people - why would I want to go anywhere else? It is comforting to know that, whatever happens in our lives, there are friends out there who will encourage, support, sympathise - whatever is needed. We seek to change the lives of the children who need our help and, in doing so, find our own lives changed for the better. Long may it continue.
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Permalink Reply by Linda Simmons on -
Elizabeth, you are a very warm hearted person and what you have written makes me feel so blessed to know somebody like yourself, whilst at the same time contributing to such a worthy cause. I have just left you a comment in the May challenge in reply to you saying how busy you have been, and now reading this explanation just overwhelms me, do take good care of yourself and take some rest as soon as you can.
Tinking of you,
Love Lind.x
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Permalink Reply by P. Jeanne Haessler on -
Elizabeth it's so very very heartening to hear of how many school children around the world are now helping and benefitting from doing so. I still think one of my favorite past stories was of the knitting and crocheting children all sitting together out in the school yard at lunch under a tree, a real sense of community, and the bonus being that the kids not brilliant in academic subjects were tutoring the students who were but had two left thumbs when it came to knitting. And your comment about using a whole roll of packing tape, just too precious. But they're learning. It's wonderful to hear these stories. I agree with Linda, having read her comment over in May Challenge...find time for you, nobody else will give it to you that's for sure, and laundry can wait, so can dusting....sit, zen out over some yarn and REST. Consider those "official KAS orders", lol!
I agree that KAS has been a positive site for me to come to right from the gitgo and I love coming here for the same boost. It's been cloudy and rainy all week but when I'm on this site it feels like the sun is shining. :)
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Permalink Reply by Enid Mary Shaw on
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hi Elizabeth,
well others before me have said it all, so I won't repeat.
Just make sure that this weekend provides some ''Elizabeth'' time.
Sod the housework!!!! it will mean a full washer next time; dust always returns, and just as easy to swipe an inch as a quarter. makes you more eco-friendly as less electricity used!!!!!
take care,
xx
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Permalink Reply by Sue Gillman on -
Elizabeth you need some catch up sleep!! Thank you for you your thoughts you have expressed for us what KAS means to us as well. I think it is wonderful that you have the school children so enthusastic and involved. They have made a great contribution and I know that has meant extra work for you too. I hope they go on holiday soon to give you a break!!
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Permalink Reply by Andrea Palmatier on -
You're welcome, and thank you for all you do! :o)
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Permalink Reply by Elizabeth on -
Thank you everyone for your kind words and support. I promise that I will look after myself! I had a sleep in, breakfast in bed and a neck massage from my wonderful husband. I hope that all you guys have a lovely weekend too! xx
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Permalink Reply by P. Jeanne Haessler on
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That's sounds lovely Elizabeth, thanks for letting us know you are caring for you too. My weekend is starting off good...hubby put a new aerator in the bathroom sink tap, insulation on some water pipes, did the dishes, cleaned the bathroom counter and floors and swept up the kitchen too. Then he fixed the busted zipper on my favorite big outdoor sweater so it works! I told him that was worth a dozen carnations right there. :D He's now taking a "power nap" lol. I forget how many hours long, I stopped counting...LOLOL! Oh my daughter ordered in a "2 person meal" from our local excellent Chinese restaurant--they make enough that I'll have leftovers for days...gotta love the value and for the same price as a one serving take out meal from a fast food restaurant and no comparison in nutrition. :) All hail not having to cook for a couple of days!
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Permalink Reply by jen phillips on -
Thank you for putting into words what many of us feel about KAS. It's 11am here in S.A. so it must be quite late in the afternoon in your part of the world - I hope Saturday has been as calm and relaxing as you were hoping for.
We have friends coming down from the big city and we are going to sit in a casual restaurant (outdoors) alongside the river and have a good old natter and totally unwind. My husband has had a very bad week (Parkinson's, oestoporosis, misbehaving heart and early stage dementia - enough said) and I am hoping this will do him some good.
I do plain jane stuff when I want to concentrate on TV , usually knitting, but if I have unresolved problems if find something that is a bit tricky and requires my full attention takes my mind off the worries.
take care - Jen
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Permalink Reply by Sandy McDonald on -
This is deeply touching Elizabeth. We have been trying to work out how to involve new members in the forum. You have so aptly described on a number of levels why KAS works in so many different ways for so many different people. What you have said is encouraging for all of us.
I will direct new members to this thread and feel sure that they will be inspired by your description of living a full and busy life and yet finding time to deliver care to others, both the children and those who contribute. You have made my month!
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Permalink Reply by Kalai McDonald on -
O h Elizabeth, HUGE lump in my throat on the back of some rough times this week. Wow, thank yYOU so much for sharing this with us. Makes all the hard work worth while to know that you and so many others feel this way. Glad to hear that your Sunday was a good one.
Thanks again Elizabeth and everyone for your lovely replies. Such beautiful words x x x
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