Meet Mary Sunshine!
I woke up this morning with loads of details to get done before I leave for Haiti and no idea of what needed to go into my first blog. Lots of clothes to pack, emails to write, appointments to set up, travel plans to confirm and this “blog thing”. This is way out of my comfort zone, my spelling is terrible, there is no proofing it, and what do you write about?
Meet Mary Sunshine!
Mary Toohil, also known as Mary Sunshine, loves to hand knit dolls and today, just a couple hours ago in fact, her friend Linda Jozitis delivered to Betsy and me in Rye, NH 50 beautiful hand knit dolls for me to take to kids in Haiti. Linda brought me the pictures of Mary too.Well, Mary stopped me dead in my tracks with her Comfort Dolls for orphans in Haiti. So I am sitting here with one of Mary’s dolls in my lap and feeling pretty comfortable myself. Whatever else this day brings it won’t top Mary’s gift. Here’s the thing. Mary is 80 years old with a smile to melt any heart, spends her days knitting dolls for lots of needy kids. In an Atlantic News article I just read about Mary, it was reported, “I just keep knitting, It keeps me busy and out of trouble” I haven’t met Mary but somehow she heard about Help for Haiti and that we were headed to Haiti. She has been working for about a month and today she delivered 50 gorgeous dolls for Jack Bickel and me to deliver to the kids at an orphanage we will visit in Cap Haitian next week.Blogging is a piece of cake when there are Mary’s in this world. For those 50 kids, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you Mary! May God richly bless your day and I promise we will bring you back lots of pictures.Jim Willey