I have 5 necklaces I want to give to 5 women who are REALLY deserving of them! Here's the deal ... If you know someone who has an inspirational or encouraging story, or even someone who is just in a very challenging struggle in life right now (I'm sure there are plenty with the way the economy is right now, unfortunately), share their story with us! Out of the stories sent to me, I will choose 5 women who I feel have made a difference in the lives of others, who may not get the "thanks" they deserve. I will be giving each woman a beautiful necklace ... delivered to their doorstep for Christmas! This will be an anonymous thing ... we want them to be surprised and feel SO special ... so don't tell them you shared their story with us (if you must tell, wait until after they receive the necklace)! Sound like fun? It does to me :)
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11.19.2008
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You are so much fun :)
Ok the lady that I want to tell you about is a good friend of mine through my husband’s work (he works with her husband). Any way the past two and a half years she tried over and over to get pregnant. She would finally get pregnant but it would only stick for about 8-10 weeks (she even finally saw the heart beat on the third and lost it 3 days later) and then she would loose it. After four miscarriages she finally was able to get pregnant and keep the baby all through pregnancy. I have almost three children now and I have only had 1 miscarriage (mine was before she started her chain). She has always been so optimistic about it all always saying that it was Heavenly Father's will and that she knew she would be a mama someday. Well she had her little Addelynn in October. Along with the early labor that she had, she also had difficulties and had to deliver C-section (something that she was kind of disappointed about but still very thankful all was well with her little lady). Well things just keep getting crazier for her. She is bound and determined to nurse her baby. She has had mastitis that became abscessed- she had to have surgery to have it all drained. Then she goes into the ER after several weeks of not feeling well, antibiotics so on and so forth to find out she contracted mersa. They had to hospitalize her so she was unable to have her 7 week old sweet baby for 4 days!! Luckily they both had their in-laws to help out but still, first time ever away from her ever awaited baby and she had to spend it in the hospital. All the while she is still cracking jokes when she calls to update me, still happy and saying "Heavenly father has something for me to learn from this". She is so amazing to me! After every single thing month by month she is still just happy and so thankful to just have a little baby girl to share each and every day with. That is my inspiration when it comes to being a mama. It teaches me every time I talk to her to be so much more thankful for my sweet babies. Thanks for this fun giveaway Cortney definitely would be so grateful and excited to receive one of your beautiful pieces!
Cristina,
I want to tell you the story of my sister. Who I believe is very deserving of one of your Inspirational necklaces. My sister Sariah is getting ready to have a baby boy in two weeks. The pregnancy hasn’t been easy from the start. She started bleeding when she was around 10 weeks and thought she was miscarrying only to find out that her placenta was tearing away from the wall of her uterus, she was put on pelvic rest for a few months and everything thankfully healed itself. Just when she thought she was out of the woods with having such a scare, she had her first Ultrasound around 20 weeks. Where they found fluid around the baby’s heart. After going to a specialist for tests they diagnosed her baby with a congenital heart defect. Thinking it was a heart problem that would possibly leave him mentally handicapped and having to go in to repair the heart problem which they thought would only take around 1-2 surgeries and wouldn‘t be too risky but risky just the same. Just when she was trying to get use to the idea of it all she had another ultrasound where the Dr’s diagnosed her with a totally different heart problem, where his pulmonary arteries and valve were missing and left her with the hope of possibly only getting to spend time with him for a few months before he would pass on. Of course she was devastated. She then volunteered to help out in a clinic 2 weeks later. The clinic is so the Dr’s can see on the ultrasound what to look for with heart abnormalities. Anyway, the Dr. who was doing the ultrasound found a valve and arteries but they were very small. She wasn’t sure what to think being on the emotional rollercoaster she was already on. But this news was good news compared to what she thought was the fate of her little baby. He still has the same heart condition as the last ultrasound which is called Pulmonary Artesia but with ways it can be fixed. It is still a very bad heart condition that may take his life and he will have to have open heart surgeries possibly every 6 mo. to a year for the first 5 years of his life. They won’t really know what will need to be done until she has him and they can really get a good look with the machines they have. She now is as I said is 2 weeks away from having him. She originally lives in Washington State but is having the baby in California to be near the top heart specialist at Stanford who will do the surgeries. She left for Cali. yesterday having to leave behind her five beautiful children. Which was and is very hard for her as you could imagine. She will be gone from them at least a month if not more and is hoping to be home by Christmas. Anyway, I am telling you her story because this last 8 mo. has been such a crazy and emotional time for her. She is such a strong women who has great Faith in God and knows that this little baby is a special spirit sent from our Father above. She inspires me every day with her strength in knowing the hard road and risk’s the baby has ahead but knows her Father in Heaven will be with her every step of the way. I think your necklaces with your great inspiring words will give her a daily reminder when she feels and sees it on her. It will give her faith and hope through this long hard journey she is on and will be on for quite sometime. Thanks for your time in reading her story and in just being generous in giving your great necklaces to 5 deserving women. I know whom ever you choose will be just as deserving as I feel my sister is.
Thanks,
Katie
P.S. If you or any of your readers would like to follow her story her blog address is: www.finchouse.blogspot.com
My sister had a very serious injury this summer. She is a beautiful, funny person and has been dealt with blow after blow recovering. She had always taken her appearance very seriously, primping, polishing and when this happened, she was overcoming an eating disorder. Ever since, she has taken all of the setbacks in stride and has learned to focus on the good and not dwell on her permanent scars. I love her dearly and it is time for her to continue to be grateful for the good and forget the bad.
i'm going to email you mine :)
You should consider presenting one of your lovely pieces to a lady I know named Melissa Knoll. She is the mom of two girls and they just lost their 34 year old Dad to cancer. He was a Minneapolis Police officer and fought the fight of his life for two years. You can read about it and follow the story of the love, courage and humor this wonderful family has shown in the face of tragedy here:
http://www.startribune.com/obituaries/34966399.html
Hi Cristina. I would like to nominate my friend Heather.
Heather is a recently *singled* mom of four. She has a beautiful heart full of love for her husband Brian, but he is lost in a world of mental illness & alcoholism. She has fought *for* him for as long as she could, but now has had to separate from him while he finds healing.
After 10 years of marriage, Heather is now on her own, building from the ground up a life for herself & her children, ages 8, 7, 5, & 2. She has an incredible faith in God, and I'm humbled almost daily at her ability to trust Him to provide her basic needs.
She is a survivor in many ways. She has shown so much courage in doing for her children what many cannot. She loves them so much, and gives up SO much to be able to do this journey of creating a new & healthy life for them.
Thank you for considering her for a piece of jewelry. ~Sarah
wow! everyone is so deserving! it's humbling to read the comments you already have. i have a friend, heather, who has been on a journey of unbelievable ups and downs. All of us have these, right? What makes her so deserving is that she is a fighter. Heather made some really hurtful choices when she was growing up, hitting a rebellious stint, finding herself in the midst of drugs and alcohol among other things. I've watched her family ache for her, and many prayers have gone up on her behalf for redemption for her. Because of her choices, she missed out on a lot of the fun things about being a young woman, the joy of deep and meaningful friendships, the bond of family that she shut out, and the joy of biological children as her system was ravaged by those choices. Heather is now sober, she is back with her family, she is married and has step-children, what a blessing, and she has returned to her church family who has prayed for her for years. Heather continues to fight the battle of addiction daily. She works hard, and is not the type of person to indulge in the luxury of jewelry for jewelry's sake. Your pieces are so meaningful to those who wear them. I love the necklaces you did for me and they symbolize special times in my life. I would love to see that happen to Heather, a small token of inspiration to help her continue her journey. Thanks for considering her.
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