This time two years ago, I was finishing up exams and prepping to go out to Portland and start working with Janine; she’d originally floated the idea past me of nannying, but over one phone conversation had mentioned “this Foundation that I just started…it’s kind of turning into a huge project, so I’ll probably need…
For the past few weeks, it has been Christmas everyday here at Flawless. From the beyond amazing, huge donation from our Sneaker Santa, Nike to the fourth grade class in NYC who arranged a holiday fundraiser for our kids – the creativity and generosity this season has been astonishing. We are so grateful for the…
We had the best time this week making lavender eye pillows with a group of boys. One of our special corporate donors, Sundance Lavender Farm has donated a ton of Lavender bouquets and Lavender essential oil for our Flawless Care Program. Our first project was making the pillows with flaxseed and lavender. The boys loved…
I know it might seem curious to read “end of summer bounty” on October 26th but we have truly been celebrating the bounty of summer in our gardens at Flawless. The weather has been intermittently summer like and just this weekend, my son and I went to a farm to pick pumpkins and picked so…
Hello Flawless readers! I’m stepping in for a guest blog because I have quite a bit to say about the fabulous Perfection Party that occurred last month in Manhattan. Many of you might know me, I was the lucky intern for Flawless in Portland last year. Of course I had to step in to my…
Dearest Flawless Friends, I flew to Boston last Friday with Tara and Janine to meet one of the Flawless Medical Advisors, Dr. Stuart Ablon, where he conducted a workshop on Collaborative Problem Solving with his organization, Think:Kids, at Mass. General/Harvard Medical School. The program was called “Think Differently: A New Approach for Parenting Challenging Kids”,…
We launched our Garden of Miracles this week – it was a dream. We started with a class of 8 – 11 year old boys who are quite active and to watch them interacting, planning, gardening together with such calm and peace was AMAZING. The teachers were awe struck at the change in the students…
We had a fabulous, whirlwind, fun and fruitful two week trip to New York filled with visits with family and friends, business trips for Dave and me and an incredible fundraising class. Our Nia session with Debbie Rosas was such a beautiful event. I was blown away by the support and love that came from…
Wow, yesterday Ellis emptied his piggy bank and put all the coins in a sack to deliver to his teacher Vincent. He told us that Vincent’s daughter just moved here from Africa and doesn’t have many toys so he is going to give all his money to them. When Vincent thanked him, Ellis said, “that’s…
