Showing posts with label Friends. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Friends. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Neighbors Helping Neighbors...Friends Helping Friends!

Having a sick baby is a lot of work, and having two small boys and our everyday responsibilities on top of Kaitlyn's demanding care has become impossible. We are in survival mode. Our priorities have changed. Things that once would have been considered to be on top of our to-do list have been put on the bottom or temporarily removed. The kids are number one. Kaitlyn's paper work and her therapies are next and everything else gets put on hold.
All the leaves up here in Western Michigan have fallen. Most people are working hard to get them up before the snow falls. We planned on ours waiting until spring, we have little time and zero energy. Sunday afternoon much to our surprise we heard noise in our front yard. Our close friends (who are also our next door neighbors) were raking our leaves. What an awesome random act of kindness. Thank you, thank you to Fred, Becky, Caden, and Morgan!
I would also like to thank everyone else who has been helping us out. We've needed to ask more favors then ever before in the last weeks and months since Kaitlyn was born. With her surgery next week we need to rely on a lot of upcoming help. Thank you to everyone who is rearranging their lives for us in the next weeks, whether its to be with the boys or Blair and I in Ann Arbor. We are truly thankful!








Monday, October 12, 2009

Beautiful Fall Weekend with Family and Friends!

Things have been busy lately, but so much fun!

We got an early start to our weekend on Thursday. Patti and Marissa from To Love Endlessly were in Muskegon. They came to Michigan to walk in the Grand Rapids Buddy Walk with family. It is such a small world. They live in North Carolina, we connected through blogger. We met up for lunch. It was such a nice visit. I am so glad they were able to fit us into their busy schedule.

On Friday I went to my first local gathering of Ds moms. There were about 10 women there with children of all ages. Even though they were strangers, it was such a comfortable 2 hours. Since that morning I've ran into many of them, mostly at the Buddy Walk. I look forward to building friendships and a support system.

Saturday morning was the Buddy Walk. It was a cold, crisp Fall morning. Twenty seven friends and family came to support Kaitlyn and the DSAWM. Our team raised $680. Thank you so much to everyone who donated their time and money to support the Down syndrome Association of West Michigan. That afternoon we headed to the Post Family Farm for their fall festival. It is a one stop shop for fall fun, pumpkins, hay rides, corn maze, petting zoo, and pumpkin donuts are just a few of the fun options they have. Check out the video at the top to see a glimpse of our weekend.

Sunday was our 6th wedding anniversary. Where have the years gone? We spent most of the day at home, we all needed a day of rest. My sister Jenna was nice enough to watch all three munchkins that evening so we could go out for dinner. Thank you Jenna! And a big thank you to Blair my amazing husband for being the rock of our family! I love you!

Wow, what a weekend!