Our Snow Family

With all the snow that fell, the girls had to play in it this weekend. They wanted to build a snowman and then decided that we needed to make our family. Of course our family includes 3 little girls, so that was what we had to make. It wasn't even spoken, but we just kept rolling snowballs until they were all there. It was just like everyone knew how many there needed to be without saying it out loud.

Daddy-Daughter Dance

Friday night was the Daddy-Daughter Dance this year. My feelings were pretty much the same as last year in that there should have been two girls going with their Daddy, but I wanted to share what Mady did. This is a rather formal occasion, a little girl's prom with the best date ever. She wanted to wear her Abby necklace. I told her that was up to her and she could look through my necklaces if she wanted to. She simply responded, "There aren't any other necklaces I want to wear" and didn't even look. I also told her to take off her pink bracelet, but she refused to do that too. She replied, "I don't ever take it off Mommy. Well, except for soccer." So, she went to the dance with her Abby necklace and her Foundation bracelet on.

Quote and an Explanation

"Faith is ... believing in advance that which only makes sense in reverse." ~ Charles Swindoll



My apologies everyone, I'm putting in long hours at work right now and the last thing I want to do when I get home is look at a computer screen. I'll have posts ready for next week though.

Donations

I don't normally share any donations that we make as a family, but thought I would share these since they were from the girls.

Need Ideas

Our family has a trip planned for March to go to Walt Disney World. Sounds like it should be fun for all of us, right, but this is actually not the first time we have planned to go to Disney. We had made a promise to two little girls three years ago that we would take them to there. Obviously this was the same year tragedy struck and those plans were no more. It has taken three years and a nine-year-old reminding us every so often that we still have not taken this promised vacation before we have finally decided that we were ready to give it a try. This will be our first family vacation without our Abrielle. (Not really sure I can call it a family vacation with her missing) So, here's where I am looking for ideas from everyone ~ I want to make sure our Abby is still included in this trip. I am thinking of having the girls release a balloon to Heaven while we are there, but not sure what else to do. I always have my bracelet on and have her permanently with me through my tattoo, but was looking for any other ideas anyone might have.

Donations

The Jackson family bought all these cute critters for the Foundation. Thanks!

Abby's Gift

Here is a scan of the pamphlets we handed out to help promote organ donation. They are tri-fold with four sections. I hope you can see them well enough.