Our first "Be Kind" Day was a success!  What the heck is Be Kind Day.  It was an idea that I came up with one day while sitting at a red light...where I do some of my best thinking.  An interesting fact that I don't talk about as much as I should is the giving back side of our business.  From every closing that I have I set aside a donation and choose an organization quarterly to give back to.  In the 4 years that Be Home has been around, Jenn Cole & Co. has donated almost $15,000 to various organizations.  This got me thinking....how can we make this even better?  I decided to take a lesson from our bees!   Even though we may be small, working together we can do even more and make a larger impact, creating Be Kind Day.  I will still be choosing an organization to partner with each quarter, however, in addition to sending a donation, we will partner with the organization for a volunteer day and I would love for you to join us! 

What better time to start than at Thanksgiving!  We partnered with the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina.  We had a great group come out the day before Thanksgiving and joined along with a ton of other volunteers.  We were tasked to sort through all the donations that had come in through food drives and from grocery stores to sort the food into more organized boxes.  We worked hard, but shard tons of laughs and at the end of it, we had sorted enough food to create 17,500 meals.  If you are looking for a place to volunteer from time to time and don't mind some physical labor, I cannot recommend helping here.  Even my teenage son (the kid in the blue sweatshirt that doesn't smile for pictures) really enjoyed the process.  Thank you to everyone who joined us and I cannot wait to see you at the next one.  Be on the lookout for end of February, beginning of March.