Julie's Journal

Make a difference in people’s lives this holiday season with a little help from some of your favorite celebrities. These stylish stars, including Alison Sweeney, Angie Harmon, Cindy Crawford, Marcia Cross and Molly Sims, have all partnered with Tiny Prints to create exclusive designs for their Celebrity Holiday Card Collection. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of these Christmas cards will benefit their chosen charity.

Alison Sweeney Holiday Card Collection: Feeding America provides low-income individuals and families the opportunity to thrive. As the nation’s leading domestic hunger-relief charity, the organization’s network of 205 member food banks supplies food to more than 25 million Americans each year, including nine million children and three million seniors. For more information on how you can fight hunger in your community and across the country, visit feedingamerica.org.

Angie Harmon Holiday Card Collection: Children’s Institute, Inc. helps children who have been affected by violence in their homes or communities. Since 1906, Children’s Institute has served at-risk children and families in some of Los Angeles’ most devastated neighborhoods. Children’s Institute provides healing and support to help traumatized children recover and lead healthy lives. The organization leads children away from tragic outcomes, putting them on a path toward opportunity and achievement. For more information, visit childrensinstitute.org.

Cindy Crawford Holiday Card Collection: Cindy Crawford, Bonnie Marcus and Tiny Prints are working together to raise funds in support of the fight against leukemia and lymphoma. Having lost my brother to Leukemia, My charity of choice is The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, whose important mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families. For more information, visit leukemia-lymphoma.org/hm_lls.

Marcia Cross Holiday Card Collection: The mission of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative is to relieve human suffering in war and disaster by advancing the science and practice of humanitarian response worldwide. Through collaboration within the Harvard community, the organization seeks to improve the effectiveness of humanitarian strategies for relief, protection and prevention with help from experts in public health, medicine, social science, management and other disciplines. For more information, visit hhi.harvard.edu.

Molly Sims Holiday Card Collection: Friends of El Faro works to maintain and support the Sion/El Faro Orphanage of Tijuana and the 110 children who call it home. By helping to improve the lives of the children of Casa Hogar Sion, the organization works to ensure that each child has the chance to live happy and healthy life. Friends of El Faro is currently working toward a long-term goal of purchasing land and building these children a new home, but it also focuses on providing them with food, shelter, safety and education every day. For more information, visit friendsofelfaro.com.

As usual, I’m not on the ball when it comes to the holidays and Mother’s Day is no different. I’m probably the worst daughter when it comes to this holiday as I never remember to send anything. Well Mother’s Day is fast approaching and if you’re like me, you are scrambling to figure out what you are going to do for her on this day. Well you better start thinking fast and start looking for some free Mothers Day eCards. They are a great last minute way to tell your mom how much you love her.

Got-Free-Ecards.com has a pretty large selection of free eCards that I haven’t seen on other sites. Sending cards with Got-Free-Ecards.com is always FREE. There are no hidden costs to send or receive their animated ecards, no matter which type or category of animated ecards you choose. Every animated eCard on their site is free to send, and to receive. Look how cute this one is!

What’s really cool is you can also add a song, photo or personalized audio greeting to your eCard, and no registration is required to use the site. But if you sign up with them for birthday or any event reminder in the month of May 2009 (May 5 – May 31st) you will be entered to win an iPod Nano!

And remember, Father’s Day is just next month on June 21st, and Got-Free-Ecards.com also has a great selection of free Fathers Day eCards. So what are you waiting for. Be a good daughter or son and send your mom a Mother’s Day eCard for free!

So who’s going to be ordering mothers day flowers for their mom next month? I have in the past but I’ve been slacking off the last few years. Bad daughter. I need to get on the ball! I would be thrilled if my kids got them for me, so I imagine that would be her reaction as well. This Lily Bouquet from 1800flowers.com is so beautiful, I want it! What are your plans for you mom on Mother’s Day this year?

This is how I spent Super Bowl Sunday – sicker than a dog…BLAH! I’ve had this cold/flu thing on and off since Christmas. It’s time for it to move on.

Yep Yep! That’s right! Today is my birthday…WOO HOO!!!!!

Famous people who share my birthday

• J. R. R. Tolkien, 1892 – English Novelist, Lord of Rings
• John Paul Jones, 1946 – Musician, Led Zeppelin
• Steven Stills, 1945 – Musician, Crosby, Stills & Nash
• Mel Gibson, 1956 – Actor
• Victoria Principal, 1958 – Actress
• Danica McKellar, 1975 – Actress (Winnie Cooper-Wonder Years)
• Eli Manning, 1981 – NFL

Famous Events that happened on January 3rd:

• 1870 – The construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins
• 1899 – The first known use of the word automobile, was seen in an editorial in The New York Times
• 1938 – The March of Dimes is established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt
• 1956 – A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower
• 1977 – Apple Computer is incorporated
• 1999 – The Mars Polar Lander was launched

Famous Capricorns

• Humphrey Bogart
• Edgar Allen Poe
• Faye Dunaway
• Howard Hughes
• Cary Grant
• Conrad Hilton
• Elizabeth Arden

So there you have it – Happy Birthday to Me! It’s all about me today, YAY!

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