Joyful CART

02/12/2026

The Cart is READY! Heading to Children's Hospital in the morning to spread some JOY! Happy Valentines ❤️

02/07/2026

HELP! The JOYFUL cart is heading to children's hospital on thursday to celebrate Valentine's day and bring much needed JOY to kids who are on the heart transplant floor!
We ordered plush heart dolls in bulk but due to the past weeks weather they aren't going to make it!
I found these amazingly awesome plushies on amazon an they will be perfect but are not with in my original budget!
If you have it and can help by buying some of these and having them sent to me by Wednesday that would be ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY AMAZING!!!
Here is link 🔗
https://amzn.to/3ZjaLlf
send to
JJL JOYFUL
1524 Fairchild Dr
Harrison Ohio 45030
also feel free to go to
www.joyfulcart.org to make a donation!
THANK YOU IN ADVANCE 🥰

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01/12/2026

THIS!!!! Look at all the JOYFUL elves! Thank you for all of your generosity this past holiday season...this was all made possible b/c of you ❤️🎄❤️

12/24/2025

It was such a JOYFUL day spending time with our friends at Harrison Trails!
A big shout out to Emerge Dance Academy for partnering with us on this event ❤️🎄❤️

12/21/2025

Thats a wrap! Laced up the JOYFUL elf shoes for the last time in 2025 this morning!
It was an amazing week at the Ronald McDonald House, Nursing Homes, and we sated the best for last Saturday Hoops in Winton Terrace!
My heart is FULL!
Thank you will never ever be enough for everyone who has supported me and my team!
Taking a few days to do all things Christmas with my people (and I'm thinking I probably should do some Christmas shopping)and then I'm hitting the ground running hard in January as we have BIG things coming for 2026...more carts...more cities...more JOY to spread!!!!!!
Merry Christmas!
Wishing all of you a JOYFUL 2026!

12/17/2025

Thank you Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Cincinnati for allowing us to come and make special personalized elves for your families! ❤️

12/16/2025

7 yrs of JOYFUL! 7 yrs of serving beside my most favorite people ever!

12/16/2025

This place and this event holds a very special place in my heart... I think it's because it's where JOYFUL truly got its start.. It helped me find what Christmas really means to me.... and it's an event where my kids, and my Harrison DECA interns (who I love like my own kids) get to help.... watching them serve others and spread joy is one of life's biggest blessings to me! 
Last night, this JOYFUL dream team personalized over 200 elves for the families that stay at the Cincinnati Ronald McDonald house in about two hours for their annual holiday party!!!!
PS: the absolute best line ever Jessica : "mom in this get up that you made me put on I feel like I should ask people if they would like the extended warranty."

12/16/2025

This place and this event holds a very special place in my heart... I think it's because it's where JOYFUL truly got its start.. It helped me find what Christmas really means to me.... and it's an event where my kids, and my Harrison DECA interns (who I love like my own kids) get to help.... watching them serve others and spread joy is one of life's biggest blessings to me! 
Last night, this JOYFUL dream team personalized over 200 elves for the families that stay at the Cincinnati Ronald McDonald house in about two hours for their annual holiday party!!!!
PS: the absolute best line ever Jessica : "mom in this get up that you made me put on I feel like I should ask people if they would like the extended warranty."

12/13/2025

Thank you WCPO 9 for telling this beautiful story!
Meet my friend Willie! He is a resident at Pickway Correctional Institution!
The JOYFUL cart partnered with 4/7, an amazing organization that puts on the "Miracle of Christmas" events in prisons all across Ohio to bring JOY and HOPE to incarcerated people and their families this holiday season!!!!

12/12/2025

Thank you Cincinnati Children's for allowing us to come love on your babies and their families ❤️🎄❤️

12/11/2025

Another JOYFUL full day! Today we hit 2 correctional institutions! I met the nicest man "smoke" he gets out in 8 months and would love to be one of my elf's next year spreading joy...I think he just wants a pair of my JOYFUL elf shoes...he was digging them, but I told him I'd review his application! He's been a resident of PCI for 15 yrs! So happy for him! Please pray for his re-entry!
I then got to go to CSC...Correctional Institution for young men! Through the most awesome donation from a friend JOYFUL was able to gift 40 of the residents a super nice plush blanket with their names on them! They LOVED them!
I was able to sit and build a ginger bread train with 3 new friends (all in for murder...I didnt ask for the details and Im learning very quickly that I shouldnt ask b/c honestly its hard for me to handle the answers get!) It started out with them wanting to be to cool for school and then they started to get comfortable (they arent use to people gifting things to them and spending time with them that dont want anything from them in return) we had some laughs and great conversation...none of them had ever built a ginger bread anything before and when I asked them what their favorite Xmas memory was they said "this...building this train"
I cried the entire 2 hr drive home...they were teenagers...babies who lost their way most likely b/c they had absent parents or no parents at all!!!! I just keep thinking what IF...what if they had parents that were more engaged, what if they would have had people who just told them every day how awesome they were and loved on them! My heart breaks for them...I got the impression that they have never really experienced a magical Christmas😭
Tomorrow the JOYFUL cart heads back to Children's Hospital, this time we will hit the Cancer floor and out patient clinic!
A huge huge thank you to all of you who support JOYFUL and make my cart possible ❤️