What’s Better than a Picnic?

I’m very proud to be co-hosting with three other great bloggin’ mamas, Tesa, Grace , and Tricia, the Hebrew National Better-Than-A-Picnic Picnic in Cleveland on July 3rd!  It’s from 11:30-3:30 at Victory Park in Vermilion, and I hope you ALL can join us!  We will have free hot dogs (the world’s best of course!), fruit, and drinks, activities for the kiddos and SO much more.  This is free family fun!  But it is also fun with a purpose.  Why is it “Better-Than-A-Picnic”?  Because we’re not just having fun, we’re giving back.

My co-hosts and I were tasked to find some local charities to support with this picnic.  So, at the picnic, we are collecting, and asking guests to bring, hygiene & specific food items for care packages for soldiers, which will be collected by the USO of Northern Ohio, and hygiene and kid’s items for the Hitchcock Women’s Center in Cleveland, which helps women and children in crisis.  We are SO PROUD to be collecting items for these two important causes!  Here is a full list of what we need to collect for these soldiers, women, and children:

feminine hygiene products (girls and women often can’t go to school or work when they can’t afford this!  I am very excited to donate my pre-pregnancy stockpile!

(I already gave away most of my tampons. BUT NO WORRIES! I got more at CVS yesterday!)

women’s body wash/soap

lotion

kids and adult toothpaste

kids and adult toothbrushes

baby/kid body wash and shampoo

shampoo

conditioner

men’s and women’s deodorant

dental floss

chapstick

More items from my stockpile that will be traveling with me to Cleveland.

travel size baby wipes

beef jerky (USO says there’s never enough beef jerky!)

powdered drink mixes (I get boxes of these “on the go” at the dollar store for $1 – great deal!!)

fruit snacks/fruit roll-ups

raisins

I hope you all can come to the picnic!  For more info, see the Hebrew National facebook page and please feel free to email me with any questions.

If you CAN’T make it, but are in the Dayton area and have items you would like to donate (I’m talking to YOU, all my coupon stockpiler friends!!), Tricia and I would LOVE to fill the back of her SUV and my car top carrier with donated products that we will take with us to Cleveland.  So please contact me if you have items you want to drop off this week!  We can meet somewhere and I can take it off your hands.

Thanks so much to Hebrew National and the Motherhood.com for making this great event possible – I can’t WAIT!

P.S. I am totally being compensated for my time and promotion of this event – which is as it should be!  But you know I wouldn’t be involved in anything that wasn’t AWESOME, right?