Happy Weekend! Hope you are warm and well wherever you are. It’s been “one of those” weeks for me and I have to tell you how much I needed to find and focus on some good news right about now. It’s still out there…the world hasn’t gone completely crazy! There are still some heart-warming and encouraging stories to find that gave me a boost. I hope they do the same for you.

There is a new program in Florida that is designed to go beyond the free lunch programs that feed kids in need. This program fills these kids’ backpacks with food before they leave school for the weekend.

The local school program is now partnering with a food bank and expanding to several other schools as well.

At this point, 4 elementary schools in have started “Backpack Buddies” programs. Organizers would like to expand the program to a district-wide level because they are having trouble meeting demand.

Passers-by Return Over $2,000 in Cash to Motorcyclist

Anthony Burres was riding his motorcycle Thursday when his wallet fell onto the street. A driver followed him for several blocks, flagged him down, and told him he dropped his wallet.

When he returned to retrieve his wallet he amazingly found that several other drivers had stopped, picked up his money, and were waiting for him so they could return it to him.

Burres says only one $100 bill was missing from his original $2,500.

When Astra Follett was born last year there was a double celebration. Astra is a miracle because if it wasn’t for her, her mother Roxanne would not be alive.

If it hadn’t been for the pregnancy, doctors would not have found a tear in the wall of Roxanne’s heart. The baby was born by cesarean section and then the mother immediately underwent open-heart surgery for her torn aorta. After the surgeries, Roxanne’s husband took off a year from work to take care of his family.

January 24th was the first anniversary of both Astra’s birth and Roxanne’s “rebirth.”