 |
Your search for Naperville has 6 results.
|
|
|
| Karma As Co-pilot
|
0 comments
Added on 05/31/07 by Betsy
Yesterday's post about the universe using Goodwill and garage sales to offer it's wares came true yet again.
I have been collecting baby crap for a woman who is broke and didn't even have the cash for a car seat. She works at a retirement home full time for seven dollars an hour and has a 2 month old girl.
Two weeks ago a friend of my mothers-Pat-who works at the same retirement home called and asked me to collect stuff for her, she had gone in with her coworkers and raised $20.
All they wanted was a car seat to keep the baby safe and free up mom to go to the grocery store alone with the baby. I took this as a challenge.
My 2 year old had a 1 year old highly rated car seat she was to big for, so I cheated a little and passed that along. I asked did she have a bouncer, swing ya know all that junk the rest of America takes for granted.
No, Pat said she has nothing. She works all the time and her mother watches her daughter. She financially supports her mom, herself and her daughter on 7 bucks an hour.
So Karma and I went shopping.
Saturday in mid- May is prime sale season. On this particular day there were 29 subdivision garage sales, each sale having 11-110 sale houses.
I started at 7:30. Now one of the problems with starting early is that people. . . (read post) |
|
|
|
|
|
| ChildServ
|
0 comments
Added on 11/07/06 by Croncast
ChildServ is a group home for boys in Lisle, IL. It is a long term placement so typically the kids are there for around 2 years, some longer. The kids are usually 14-18- high school age. The staff is really dedicated to the well being of the kids and they love them tremendously even though as a result of the trauma they have been through these kids have a lot of behaviors that make them difficult to love. I have worked at several group homes and through case work visited many more. I have never seen a facility that respected the kids as much as ChildServ does, they really try to give the kids as much of a normal life as you can have living in a structured group home.
The kids that reside there typically have been in the system for years, many have been through a lot of foster homes and they just need a soft place to land with firm structure. Melissa is the group home manager and strict loving mommy type chick. A lot of the staff has been there for years, which is crazy since social work is measured in dog years 1=7.
There are also 2 other homes, one in Naperville and the other in Downers Grove. The Naperville home houses 6 girls, it is supposed to be an emergency group home for kids new to the system or for those have lost their last placement suddenly- however it is not unusual that the girls stay there for quite a while. The. . . (read post) |
|
|
|
| Garage Sale Etiquette
|
0 comments
Added on 11/07/06 by betsy
Now when I am walking up your driveway, you should welcome me with open arms.
There aren't too many occasions in life when people come to your house to hand you money.
OK so your garage sale ad says 9-2, and I was there at 6:30 but the early bird catches the.... and I've got cash.
Don't try to make me feel like I should be honored to set foot on your blacktop. I have a college education- I just choose to dumpster dive- I could totally go get a job tomorrow. OK so I would be hawking rental upgrades at Enterprise- but I'm not a total loser.
(read post) |
|
|
|
| Hunting Good Will
|
0 comments
Added on 10/17/06 by Betsy
If the Olympics should come to Chicago as Mayor Daley is hoping, I will contact the city's Olympic committee because I have the perfect idea for a new competitive sport. If the Olympic Committee gets a better gift bag from Tulsa and we are out of the running, I may contact NBC because my idea would also be a divine reality show.
If you watched the Atlanta Olympics you will remember the cheesy back stories about starving Eastern block mommies who sent their buxom baby off to shot put boarding school so she could have a shot at the good life.
Picture Chicago 2008, the cheesy camera fog parts and reveals the doors of Goodwill. It's 8:50 and the athletes are taking their positions, climbing out of all manner of hoopty and limping to the starting gate.
There's the Pall Mall Paul who talks through a hole in his throat but can jog like a pro when he spies anything that plugs in and was mad after 1989.
There's Grandma Jean who pretends to be checking everything over with her bifocals, but is actually switching price tags.
There are the religous chicks who always come in a herd and can never seem to satitate their thirst for ankle length denim skirts.
And then there is me. And just like them something happens to me once I get inside those doors.
I feel a rush of adrenaline and once my hands hit the handle of the. . . (read post) |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
