I started Welcome Home back in 2012

  

 

 

 

 

 

I started Welcome Home back in 2012. My Mom had moved to Heaven and my Dad brought me a special gift that she left for me with a note that said "give to my baby girl when I have left this world." I remember being afraid to open it at first and knew that whatever it was would hurt more than if I didn't know. But my Dad insisted that I keep these memories close to my heart forever and she would have wanted it that way. 

 

 

You all know that those were the recipes that we cooked together from the time I was 7 years old. Over 50 years of recipes on hand written cards with notes to me on the back of almost all of them. I started Welcome Home to preserve her memory and share her love for me with the world. Who knew it would grow so quickly... from 30 friends to over half a million. Followers from all over the world. She would have loved this.

 

 

But I am struggling.....struggling to keep Welcome Home going with the cost of food and supplies today. I am not the typical blogger. I do not blog for profit or commissions. I do not advertise for any big companies like other bloggers do. Why? Because my mission was not to make money doing this. My mission was to share my Mom's love for cooking and her wisdom and to make sure the world knew what it was like to have a mother like her. 

 

 

I run this page and the blog at my own expense. I only ask for donations so that I can support my mission of saving the lives of dogs and cats in shelters before they are euthanized and to save the lives of homeless people who need to know they are not alone. You will not find pop up ads and videos and junk on my Welcome Home blog. You will not see constant ads that cover up the photos or the recipes. You will only see my hard work and hopefully enjoy the fact that I spare you all that garbage. 

 

 

So you say, why not just bring in advertisers and start making a lot of money like other bloggers? Because my whole purpose for starting this blog was to share...not earn money. It was to give back all the love my Mom had for me. To charge for sharing her recipes just wouldn't be right.

Very few donations, if any. So I've have been trying to keep my mission alive and make the donations out of my own pocket to keep my four legged and two legged friends alive. I am struggling as prices seem to soar at the grocery store.

 

 

So the point of this post is to ask you to help me keep the blog going with a donation. I would be so grateful for any amount you can spare. 

 

 

How do you donate? Go to my blog at http://www.welcome-home-blog.net/p/donate.html

You will see a DONATE button at the top of the page in the right margin. That will take you to PayPal where you can donate whatever you want.

 

 

Thanks in advance for helping me save Welcome Home.