Ladies Home Journal

January 12, 2010

Ladies Home Journal

"A Hundred for a Home" made the national press!! There is a small blurb about the fundraising efforts of Michele and Kamarah in the February issue of Ladies Home Journal. It is on page 8. Check it out.

Comments

Anonymous said…

Fantastic!

January 13, 2010 at 9:16 AM

Anonymous said…

My friend from high school, your cousin-in-law, Laurie McNeil, directed me to your blog. My 4-year-old son has a form of Congenital Muscular Dystrophy, altough we are still not sure what type. We believe it might be from a missing collagen outside of his cell wall structure. He was a normal little guy and has progressively lost some of his mobility since about the age of 2. Right now we have very little idea of how he will progress in the future.

It's so great that attention is being brought to lesser-known types of muscle-affecting diseases.

Bravo to your family and friends for raising awareness and to Ladies Home Journal for their article.

I pray that a cure is found for all of these world-altering diseases, and especially for your very special family.

Beth M.

January 13, 2010 at 10:30 AM

Anonymous said…

oops, Laurie's your sister-in-law!

Thanks,

Beth M.

January 13, 2010 at 10:38 AM

Jan said…

Shannon, your sister told me about this, I can't wait to get to the store and see it! That is great to make the news!

January 13, 2010 at 2:19 PM

Jenkins said…

That is so cool!
Your children are celebrities!

January 13, 2010 at 4:49 PM

Welcome to Holland

By Emily Perl Kingsley

I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It's like this......When you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The Coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It's all very exciting.After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, "Welcome to Holland.""Holland?!?" you say. "What do you mean Holland?? I signed up for Italy! I'm supposed to be in Italy. All my life I've dreamed of going to Italy."But there's been a change in the flight plan. They've landed in Holland and there you must stay.The important thing is that they haven't taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It's just a different place.So you must go out and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met.It's just a different place. It's slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you've been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around.... and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills....and Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts.But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy... and they're all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say "Yes, that's where I was supposed to go. That's what I had planned."And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away... because the loss of that dream is a very very significant loss.But... if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things ... about Holland.