I just can't hit publish...

This week I wrote a post about a terrifying experience that we had one year ago with this little one:

It's an experience that we have not shared.  Not one single family member knows.

It was a big one. 
Potential life changer that we have kept to ourselves. 

This week I felt like God wanted me to share it.  So I wrote...and wrote.  But my sweet hubby doesn't want me to share it with the world.  He thinks that I have already exposed too much about me...and our family.  More importantly, he doesn't want our family to know about it. 

I respect that.  Completely.  So for now my post will go unpublished.  But Mother's Day will always be a reminder for me that life can change in an instant.  As if I needed a reminder - right?

***To all you special mommies of angels out there I want you to know that you are not alone.  I know that this day is hard.  I know that we want ALL our sweet children to be with us on Mother's Day.  I know that most people don't understand just how hard this day is for us...

Special hugs and kisses to all of you!!!!

25 are on their way

12 +3+10=25

Originally, I made 12 special gift bags for Mommies of sick kids  (click here to read all about it).  I was able to make 3 more on my own.  I was pretty happy with the thought of being able to bless 15 special Mommies this Mother's Day.  I was truly satisfied with 15. 

But then...it got even better.

Someone wonderful read my blog post and wanted to contribute.  She gave me an additional $100 and I was able to make 10 more!  How cool is that?

What's makes it even better is the story behind the $100.  Several months ago she received $50 from a friend that was celebrating her 50th birthday.  Evidently she sent 50 of her friends $50 with the instruction to "PAY IT FORWARD".  The check sat there for months and months.  Unsure of where it should go.  When she read my last post, God spoke to her.  He told her that this was the project.  The way to pay it forward.  But...it gets even better.  She didn't just pay the $50 forward.  She added her own $50 to make it $100.

 

SO AWESOME!!! 

Today, all 25 gift bags were delivered to a very special family that is currently fighting to save their daughter's life.  Cancer is trying take their sweet Katie for the 2nd time (click here to read about it).  They will be up at Children's Hospital LA tomorrow and will be delivering the gift bags just in time for Mother's Day.  My only instructions were to deliver them to the nurse's stations on the cancer floor, PICU and Cardiac ICU (where Nate was) and let them decide which Mommies need them most.  I KNOW that God will guide them...

I'm so thrilled.  Literally giddy.  This is the BEST Mother's Day gift I could ask for. 

I can't wait until next year when I am going to find a way to make even more (and hopefully something for the Dads too)!!!


Thanks Debbie!!!  XOXOXO