January 2011
3 posts
Special Bombing Mission: Jill - Our Love Drop...
Hey team,
I’ve got some crazy exciting news!
This week, we are dropping a Love Bomb on a woman named Jill.
If you haven’t heard yet, we have a new sister project called Love Drop. You can check it out here. Thanks to Love Drop, you can change another life with just one dollar per month. So cool.
Anyway, January is our first month for Love Drop, and Jill is our Love Drop recipient! So,...
Bombing Mission: Eden, lost sister in car...
Hey team,
This week we will be dropping a Love Bomb on a woman named Eden. She was suggested to us by one of our team members, Sandi.
This is what Sandi had to say:
“Eden’s little sister and her little sister’s husband were killed in a freak car accident in late August but their baby (only 6 weeks old) survived. Eden and her husband stepped forward and adopted the little girl...
Bombing Mission: Sonia, single mother of child...
Note: Have you checked out LoveDrop yet? It’s a new project we’re doing and yes, it’s awesome. Check it out here: LoveDrop.Us
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Hey team,
This week is a joint mission with the ItStartsWith.Us team! I hope all of you had a wonderful holiday season. It’s good to be back!
We will be dropping a Love Bomb on a woman named Sonia. She is a single mother of a 4 year old with a...
December 2010
3 posts
Bombing Mission: Lehua, lost dad & grandpa, 2nd...
Hey team,
My apologies for the mission coming a bit late today. I’ve got a killer sinus/headcold and it’s been quite the day! ‘Tis the season. :)
This week, our Love Bomb recipient was suggested by one of our team members, Michelle.
This is what she had to say about Lehua, a woman who just lost her dad and paternal grandpa, and whose maternal grandpa is now on life...
Bombing Mission: Trisha, military husband...
Hey team,
This week we will be dropping a Love Bomb on a woman named Trisha.
Her husband is in the military and recently tried to take his life due to the overwhelming stress and pain. She has been an incredible wife taking care of him and fighting to keep their marriage healthy. After only 2 months home on medical leave due to his mental and emotional health, he has been sent back...
Bombing Mission: Vee, lost her husband.
Hey team,
This week’s mission was incredibly hard to choose. I am reminded every single day by all of your submissions how many people are hurting and are in need of a close friend to be with them, encourage them, and help them keep their chin up. There is more hurt and loss than I can fathom.
We are dropping a Love Bomb today on a young woman named Vee. Two weeks ago, her husband died in...
November 2010
4 posts
Special Bombing Mission! Elizabeth + EpicThanks
Happy Thursday, everyone!
Today’s mission is a joint mission, so this means that both the ItStartsWith.Us team and the Love Bomb team are both dropping the Love Bomb!
Before I get started, though, I want to drop in a note from Estrella, an incredible woman who has graciously planned an event to honor Nate in all that he does. I will be heading to Chicago this weekend to join them and...
Bombing Mission: Cassie, hurt & betrayed
Note: I will be doing more video updates and writing for the ItStartsWith.Us blog on a regular basis! Check out my first video update here!
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Hey team!
Today we are dropping a Love Bomb on one of our own: Cassie!
Cassie was suggested to us by another team member, Catherine. This is what Catherine had to say:
“I’ve gone to school with Cassie since Kindergarten and she has...
Bombing Mission: Sandy, 26 - In Hospital with...
Note: We love having our online community go hands-on! If you live in Murfreesboro/Nashville, TN & would like to do something for Sandy, her husband or 2 young children, you can! Reply to this email if you have an idea!
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Hey team!
I am so excited for today’s Love Bomb mission!
We are dropping a Love Bomb on a 26 year old wife and mother of two children.
She was suggested to us by...
October 2010
4 posts
Bombing Mission: Summer, lost father on Sunday.
Note: Love Bomb is a project of ItStartsWith.Us, and a new project, Love Drop, launches this January but is accepting members now! Take a moment to check it out.
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Hey team,
Today we are dropping a Love Bomb on a girl named Summer.
She was suggested by Micaela, one of our team members. There isn’t much that needs to be said. Summer’s father passed away this past Sunday.
She...
Bombing Mission: Ellen, losing home, surgery,...
Note: Today we are partnering with KindOverMatter! They spread notes of love, encouragement, & inspiration. Check out their blog - you can sign up for their newsletter here too!
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Hey team!
Today’s mission is for Ellen, from central Florida.
She was suggested to us by Peg, one of our members. This was one of the toughest blogs for me to personally get through so far.
This is what Peg...
Bombing Mission: Nanette, Single Mom with Breast...
Hi everyone!
Some of you reading this email are on the Love Bomb team, and some are part of ItStartsWithUs, and some are part of both! This week, Love Bomb is doing a joint mission with ItStartsWithUs. It’s so great to have all of you.
Today’s mission is for a woman named Nanette. She was suggested to us by Lori, one of our Love Bomb members.
Nanette is a single mother of two (ages...
Bombing Mission: Annie - baby with hole in heart,...
Hey team!
Today we are dropping a Love Bomb on Annie!
Annie is a young woman with two children and 20 weeks pregnant with her third. She and her husband, Jade, just found out that their new little one most likely has Downs Syndrome. Annie’s strength and perspective on this news is incredible. On top of this news, however, they found out that their baby has an opening between his or her two...
September 2010
5 posts
Bombing Mission: Tris, alcohol + self harm.
Hey team!
Today we are dropping a Love Bomb on a guy named Tris. That’s right, a guy! It’s been awhile!
Tris is a young man who has been struggling heavily with alcohol as well as self-harm. He’s gone through some incredibly difficult life events; moreso than most of us. He recently went into rehab, but it isn’t apparent to others yet how much it has helped him.
We are...
Bombing Mission: Bonnie, lost two sons.
Hey everyone,
Man, this is a hard one. Bonnie is a sweet woman who was suggested to us by one of our own team members (her niece!), Rachael.
Bonnie lost her second son in a motorcycle accident recently, and she writes,
“Forty Percent….Gone. If I break it down by the numbers that is my loss so far. Five kids, two gone. Forty percent of my posterity gone.”
In Rachael’s...
Bombing Mission: Victoria with Lyme Disease
Note: If you participated in last week’s Love Bomb and haven’t emailed me the note you wrote in person for someone, it’s not too late! Send an email to mylovebomb@gmail.com with a photo of your note, the transcript, or your story! We want to hear from you.
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Hey everyone!
This week we are dropping a Love Bomb on a young woman named Victoria.
Several of you may know that it...
Bombing Mission: Handwritten.
Hey Team!
This past weekend I took a 3 day break from all technology (phone, internet, etc).
It was so rewarding. I’m a huge fan of social networking, and I absolutely love the way it allows me to meet people and remain connected with friends in ways that just aren’t physically possible. Obviously it’s useful; it makes Love Bomb possible! ;)
That being said, this weekend I was...
Bombing Mission: Chicago Fire Department
Note: We are now partnering with bloggers for missions! This week’s partners: Lauren Nicole Love, TheBee’sKnees, HannahKaty.com, CollectionOfThings, LettersSheWrote, InspiredMess.com, TallAsGrass, Talk2TheTrees, ABCCreativity.com, AmySoto, and ProneToWander.
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Hey Team!
This week we are doing something just a tad different.
Typically we drop a Love Bomb on one person, but this...
August 2010
6 posts
Bombing Mission: Rachel, 17. Loss of dad, eating...
Note: We are now partnering with bloggers for missions! This week’s partners: StarbucksBreak.com, YoursTrulyTrayce.com , LoveChelseaLauren, ProneToWander, TheBeesKnees, Collection-Of-Things, PostWithTheMost, InspiredMess, TrueConfessionsOfASingleMother, MrsMuffins, TallAsGrass, DoGoodMore, BelleChantelle, DevilishDelish, BuckOwensGuitar, ABCCreativity, AmySoto, BriannaPoster and...
Bombing Mission: Katie, family death & sickness
Note: We are now partnering with bloggers for missions! This week’s partners: PhilanthropyInk.com, MrsMuffins.com, TheBee’sKnees, BelleChantelle, CollectionOfThings, LoveChelseaLauren, PostWithTheMost, InspiredMess.com, StarbucksBreak.com, Talk2TheTrees, UnfoldingYourPathToJoy, AmySoto, DoGoodMore, BuckOwensGuitar and ProneToWander.
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Hey Love Bomb family!
We are dropping...
Bombing Mission: Bria with clinical depression &...
Note: We are now partnering with bloggers for missions! This week’s partners: Operation Beautiful, TrulyTrayce, TheBee’sKnees, HannahKaty.com, CollectionOfThings, CravingCupcakes and ProneToWander.
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Hey Team! This week’s mission is one that hits me at my core. It was suggested by one of the awesome anonymous women in our Love Bomb family. Her friend, Bria, is a 22...
Mission Results: 243 comments to Jeff
Hey family!
Last week we dropped our Love Bomb on Jeff whose parents died in a car accident on Friday night. We left 243 comments - and I want to thank you (!!!) for awesome amounts of love and support that we were able to show to Jeff.
This was his first response before he knew who we were: “An army of strangers has helped me smile for the 1st time since this all began. I have no idea...
Bombing Mission: Jeff's parents' death in accident
Hey Team,
This week’s Love Bomb was suggested to us by one of our teammates who preferred to remain anonymous.
On Friday night, her friend Jeff found out that both of his parents were killed in a car accident. Their vehicle was hit by a tractor trailer unable to stop.
Jeff just started a brand new job, and I can’t imagine dealing with such a painful loss, let alone while...
Mission Results: 226 Comments to Nicole
Two weeks ago we dropped a Love Bomb on Nicole, whose little baby Wrenn has ABCA-3 Surfactant Protein Deficiency and is in unstable condition, waiting for a lung transplant.
Nicole’s friend Kirsten just emailed me to let us know that Nicole just made it through all of her 226 comments (she’s been moving Wrenn to St. Louis for medical attention) and posted a thank you here.
When we...
July 2010
7 posts
Bombing Mission: Rachel, a Marine widow
Hey Team,
This week’s mission was suggested by Nicole, one of our team members.
Rachel is 23, and lost her Marine husband this past March. She gave birth to a beautiful daughter, Ariana, but her husband never got to meet his little girl.
In her words, “He is still my absolute rock and without him I would not be the woman I am today. He was and remains an amazing man and a hell...
Bombing Mission: Nicole and baby Wrenn
Hey Team,
This week’s mission was suggested by Kristin, one of our team members.
Her neighbor Nicole gave birth to a baby girl, Wrenn, in April. Wrenn was struggling to breathe and needed full-time oxygen so her lungs would not collapse. She was soon diagnosed with an extremely rare genetic disorder called ABCA-3 Surfactant Protein Deficiency.
Wrenn, at 3 months old, needs a lung...
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Mission Results: 377 comments to Quinn.
Last week’s Love Bomb Mission was for Quinn, a girl struggling through Anorexia.
This is only some of her thanks: “i don’t have the words to tell you how grateful i am to each and everyone of you who took the time to write a thoughtful and loving comment to me. i’ve never received such kindness in all my life and i can’t really explain how i make me feel except...
Bombing Mission: Quinn with Anorexia
Hey team!
This week, we are partnering with Operation Beautiful.
Operation Beautiful is a collection of thousands of people on a mission to end self-negativity. They leave Post-It’s in various places with encouraging notes reminding whoever stumbles upon them that they are beautiful. I am thrilled for this joint mission with them as we combine our efforts to remind a girl this...
Bombing Mission: Laura Is Going Blind
Hey Team,
Today’s mission hits really close to home for me.
Laura is an art journalism student, blogger, oil painter, music/fashion junkie, and self-proclaimed “sunshine addict.” She is beautiful.
One year ago she was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa, a degenerative and incurable eye disease that will eventually cause her to lose her vision altogether.
As an art student...
Bombing Mission: Sienna with MS
Today’s mission was suggested to us by Ross, one of our team members. Here’s what he had to say:
I’d suggest love bombing my friend BurntSienna. Her latest post, “I Don’t Want To Go Here”, is on her blog, burntsienna.wibsite.com.
She has had Multiple Sclerosis for a long time and is terrified by the imminent prospect of getting worse. It’s a really...
June 2010
3 posts
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Bombing Mission: Jay
Today’s mission was suggested to us by Hannah, one of our team members. Here’s what she had to say:
Wow, this is such good timing. I came across someone yesterday that I wanted to suggest for the next bomb, and wondered when that would be!
A friend of mine was talking about the blog of a friend of hers (someone I follow on Twitter). She said that just from this person’s...
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Bombing Mission: Barnard Family
Today’s mission was suggested to us by Jamie, one of our team members. Here’s what she had to say:
Hey, Nate! I’d like for you to consider the Barnard family for a Love Bomb. Their twin baby girls were born very prematurely. They’ve been in the NICU at a hospital in Cincinnati for the past two months. The parents have been driving back and forth from Cincinnati to...