11/12/2025
We got another huge haul of hats (from multiple people) to send off to the kids in Little Farmpit's Title 1 school. We have now reached exactly 100 hats to keep these kiddos warm and cozy this winter!
I am super excited about this and I would like to get a little sappy and explain exactly why I am so excited.
Some of you know this about me, some of you don't, but the career I had prior to whatever the hell this amazing thing that I do is, was in the child abuse system.
I have worked in foster homes, residential treatment facilities and my primary job, the one I was the absolute best at and the one that has left the biggest impact on me, was the time I spent as child abuse investigator down in one of the poorest counties in Florida with a Title 1 school system.
I have seen more than anyone should see. I have been in cold houses with no heat, lots of babies, and have paid someone else's power bill when I could barely pay my own. I have seen what it is like to have less than nothing.
Every case impacted me and while I really enjoy the job I do now, because its everything I needed to heal from the job I used to do, I never take those 13 years working with families on the worst days of their life, for granted.
I will never go back to working in that field. Hairy Farmpit Girls has afforded me the priviledge to not have to. It was too much with too little resources but I still want to help, just in my own way and without all the bureaucratic nonsense that goes along with asking permission rather than just doing the nice thing.
I am significantly happier now but since having Little Farmpit, I kind of want to mother absolutely everything, which is why I feel the personal responsibility of making sure every kid is warm this winter.
(My uterus may be dust in the wind but I'm perpetually broody.)
Not everyone has the privilege of being able to have a reliable heating system and many people are choosing between power, gas, medication or food.
While I want to see these hats as a sweet, whimsical way of treating the kids to something special and made with love, I know that one of them may be the hat that keeps a kid warm at night, well rested, and happy the next day.
I will never know who that kid is, nor will I know which hat. I don't need to. But by covering them all, we might be able to make one difference.
And the other's get pom poms.
It's a win win!
Thank you to everyone who is participating in this project. This next haul of hats will be sent out to another school bus to be passed out to all the kids on that route. The designs are amazing and I get giddy each time we receive one.
Now, only 540 left to go.
Image description: A haul of 33 brightly colored crocheted and knitted beanies. Some have pom poms, one has bells and 2 were sent as presents to Jen and I.
This project is an ongoing project that I am doing by trying to make 640 hats for kids. I am happily accepting anyone else who wants to make a hat, in any style, pom pom, bells or not. Just make them and send them!
