Val's Pals - A Journey with M.S.

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via From Sawdust to Sprinkles

01/01/2024

Love & Bless others with no expectations and you will receive something(s) that you've never imagined!♥️🌍🙌🏻

12/23/2022

Infuson day and I had fun with my nurses. Love, Joy and Blessings to all!🙏❤️🙌🏼

12/02/2022

Join us tomorrow at the Happily Handmade Popup Shop! Val will be there with peach jam!

10/24/2022

💖 Good Morning Friends and Family! If I had the most important message to share with you that's about Love and Life would you like to know about it?!

😃 Please note, this is not my own story. I am just sharing it with you. Let's come together and share our heartfelt comments below. Have a wonderful day!
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“Last night I bought a sunflower to put on the windshield of someone I’m smitten with.
After some consideration, I decided not to since we had only been on one date, the night previous. Don’t want to come off too strong, right?
Anyway, I grabbed the flower on my way out this morning with the intention to give it to someone on my way to work so it didn’t die alone.
What happened next has left me changed in ways I don’t even have words for yet.
While I was sitting and drinking my morning joe at the coffee shop (which I typically take to go), I saw a woman reading something with tears quietly and quickly sliding down her pale face.
It was like there was a magnet in the sunflower that was being drawn to her, because I knew in that moment she was who I was going to give the sunflower to; she was who I had to give it to.
When I got to her table I said, ‘Hey, pardon me. I have this sunflower that I was hoping to give to someone special and that someone I had in mind didn’t work out, but I can feel that you’re special too, so I want you to have it.’
Before I could even hand her the sunflower, this complete stranger flew into my arms with tears flowing, and gratitude spewing, as if I was someone she once loved, and lost.
It’s what she said next that I’m still trying to grip.
She was crying because her fiancé had died the week before, just months before they were going to get married.
On their first date, he brought her a sunflower and from then on, got her sunflowers, never roses, because she was the light of his life.
Today, through me, he was able to show her that she’ll always be the light of his life and how we as humans have a message to carry that goes far beyond words.
I’m shaken, awakened, and feeling raw.
You never know how much a simple gesture of giving someone a $5 flower will change their life, as well as yours. Life is about giving and being of service to others.
I challenge you all to find a way to make someone else’s life just a little bit brighter today and be of service. You never know the impact you could have.”





Credit: Danny Wakefield

10/16/2022

Here's a reminder that you can also help with a meal🍽🥩🍕🥗🍗 for this 🍑sweet family!

The Petocchi family is in need of some community support. Valerie has been experiencing a severe MS flare since March. It is affecting her both cognitively and physically. She is often unable to communicate (talk, text) for more than a few minutes at a time and can no longer walk. Her husband and tw...

10/15/2022

When you want to take pictures of jam, don’t ask the children for help.