1. Helped my parents move and when finished, I left a beautiful wreath hung on their front door anonymously. Spent five weekends moving them.

2. Donated yarn and needles to an elementary school, so that young children could learn to knit.

3. Donated several bags of clothing to the needy.

1. A friend moved to a new city very recently. Her birthday was coming up and I knew she probably wouldn’t do anything special since she really hadn’t met anyone yet. So I contacted as many people I knew that knew her and asked them to send her birthday wishes by phone, card, or email and to pass the request along to anyone else that knew her, but to keep who organized it a surprise. She got flooded with birthday wishes and reminders she was loved, but happily she hasn’t figured out it was me who got the ball rolling (she’s not a knitter so she won’t be reading this blog.)

2. I helped my mother navigate the land of digital photography so that she could include a number of printed pictures in the cards she periodically sends her aunts and uncles. Most have very little family left so her cards, and this time pictures, are always happily received.

3. A number of my relatives live quite a ways away so it has been years since we have all been together. This year there have been a number of health scares so we decided we should have a little reunion. Since we all live at different points across the country my immediate family (siblings, parents and I) decided we would use are collective frequent flier miles to buy tickets for them to fly out and my parents will put them up at their place. That way this reunion will cost my relatives very little money and they have happily agreed.
Unbeknowist to my relatives, we had orginally decided to use our collective miles to take a family vacation that we were all quite excited about. In my opinion, using those miles for a family reunion instead is probably my biggest RAK that I have done this year.

I hope you choose to do this again. I love coming up with RAK’s and hearing about everyone else’s. Thanks so much!

1. I took a neighbor’s garbage cans out on a morning that they had forgotten.

2. I was reading a book in the breakroom at work. A co-worker saw what I was reading and said she had heard great things about it. I picked up a copy for her and left it on her desk. (”The Thirteenth Tale” by Diane Setterfield)

3. I brought lunch to my hair stylist since I had a 12:00 appointment.

This has been fun to read through. I hope we all keep up the good works.

2. Took my grandchildren for the day, so my daughter could have some quilting time. She doesn’t knit so we trade off, quilts for socks.

3. At a church dinner we were holding a lady stopped in who was out of gas and out of money. She was looking for the pastor but he wasn’t there yet so another girl and I each grabbed for our purses and gave her some money. Hope she got where she was going.

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1. Sent sympathy card to co-worker when her sister died suddenly.

2. Threw a family graduation party for both kids graduating from different colleges (whew – finally no more tuition payments!)

3. Knit a new hat for my son and new socks for my daughter – just because . . . and they both loved them!

1. Invited a neighbour and her 10 month old daughter for lunch. I didn’t know them before the lunch.

2. Took _my_ 10 month old son with me to visit my mom who lives 500 km away and doesn’t get to meet her grandson very often because she is not well enough to travel.

3. Sent homemade stitch markers as a surprise to an online friend. She really loved them.

And, I wish we had Spring Flings in Norway!

1. Went through books that I’ve read and took a large stack to the pulic library for their upcoming Friends of the Library book sale.

2. I got some new shoes recently, so I went through all my shoes and pulled out some that were still in nice shape and donated them to a womens shelter. I have a slim foot and know that it is difficult to find those shoes when you need them.

3. Took Starbucks to my manicurist to welcome her back from vacation.

1) Smuggled chocolate into a co-worker’s cubicle on a day when she wasn’t feeling very happy at all;
2) Quietly gathering up all the dishes in the house shared areas to run dishwasher so that housemate wouldn’t have to think about it;
3) Ordered a venti green tea lemonade at Starbucks, and a grande showed up. Mentioned this. Instead of pouring the grande into a large cup and adding to it, they made a new one and asked if I knew anyone who would like the grande. “Probably,” I said, and set out to find someone on the street who looked thirsty. Unfortunately, passersby looked more hurried than thirsty. The tea ended up at a drugstore cosmetics counter, where I was assured it wouldn’t go to waste. (They gave me perfume samples to say thank you! O_O )

1) Paid the parking fee for the car behind me at Disneyland.

2) Bought gas for a stranded motorist.

3) Took the neighbors three small children to the park so she could get some sleep.