About The Blanket FairyI have had several people ask me why I started this. January 2010 my husband had just left the kids and I in Arizona so he could start a new job in Missouri. We had a bad year in 2009. The economy in Arizona was crazy. He could not find anything in AZ that was just enough for us to survive. So we sacrificed. We could not afford to all go at the same time.
The day that he rolled out of our driveway it tore me to pieces. I was now a single parent and we would not see him until the very end of May. It broke my heart that my kids would ask when is daddy coming home. Mady was 1 at the time and Zach was 5. I thought my life was just so terrible and I had a hard time sleeping missing my husband, taking care of the kids 24/7 by myself, putting the house on the market, packing up the house getting ready for the big move, going thru an unexpected surgery while trying to pack the house being told not to lift anything more than 5 pounds, etc. My Inspiration - Layla Grace MarshIt was about a week after he left on one of my sleepless nights. I saw a prayer request for Layla Grace Marsh on twitter. I was curious so I clicked on the
link and read the current journal entry. Layla had just relapsed with Neuroblastoma. Curious on what this was I went back to the first page of their journal and I stayed up all night and read the whole journal. My heart was broken to think of the pain that these innocent children go through. Not just that but what the whole family goes thru.
Parents are seperated to long periods of time in between hospital stays, siblings don't see their mommy or daddy for long periods of time during treatments and I realized that cancer affects the whole entire family.
I thought to myself what can I do. For 5 years I had been making baby blankets and selling them online. I remember seeing alot of Layla's pictures and she had a blanket with her in several of those pictures. On twitter I started following Layla Grace and saw more links to other
children. I came upon a link for Kate McRae who was currently getting ready to go in for a bone marrow transplant. I also came upon McKenna Maiorana's link. I contacted both of their parents after realizing they were being treated in the local childrens hospital and asked if I could make a custom blanket for them. I took their requests and went right to work.....Read More |
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