all leukemia is a nasty disease that took my mom back in 2004 -17 days before her first grandchild was welcomed into this world. To this day I believe she hand picked Nathaniel Craig Backus out in heaven just for us - if not him in body and all - his spirit was chosen by her. We were never able to "see" the gender and I tell myself that she realized we (Craig, me and my dad and Marcus) needed a beautiful bald little boy! He brought so much joy into a very sad time.
Anyhow tomorrow night our team - Loretta's Love will do our annual walk at the Light the Night event in Troy, MI. If you are able, please go visit our new website - www.lorettaslove.com and donate. Or even come support the cause and walk with us tomorrow night (walk starts at 7 in Troy, events start at 5) - and enjoy glow in the dark balloons. Rain or shine - the walk goes on. So bundle up.
If you ever noticed the archives on here - they data back to May 2004. Yes my dear husband Craig created this long ago (and a few looks back) to help us communicate with family and friends as the stress and cost of calling everyone every day became too much! I think our phone bill that one month was well over $400. And then dad and Marcus had high ones too. It was hard to tell the same story all over and over. So this was our way to communicate to everyone that wanted and/or needed to know.
Anyhow - reading back you can feel the emotions and stress of a pregnant me wrote about things close to every day or so. I don't handle things very well - and it was very hard the last few days in June. But then go to July 8th and the start of the waiting for Nate came on and brought a ray of light to this family! And over t he years you can read about our family, losing my in laws, grandma and then our adoption! This is a blog created out of love and information and has continued that on and hopefully helped people looking at adoption.
Yes - it is bitter sweet - and we're hoping for a good turn out at the event this year. Tomorrow is Curt's first walk in honor of his angel grandma as well!
I will bet everyone that reads this will have ONE connection - even a small one to someone that has fought leukemia, lymphoma or some sort of blood disorder - lets go fight for those people now!
Thanks - and check out the great site - www.lorettaslove.com.
Love
Gail
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