I’m hopping around like popcorn in a pan.
Last Friday, I visited at Cook Children’s Medical Center to finalize the plans for the delivery of afghans to Camp Sanguinity. While I was at it, I delivered a cashier’s check for $1229.47 - money that was donated by my wonderful readers. The camp director was tickled pink.
This has been a pretty amazing year. Volunteers from around the globe have been working to make afghans for children with cancer. Each afghan has 48 different squares from different people (with name tags showing who they are and where they live). My Flickr Badge on the sidebar will take you to the gallery so you can see them all. Thanks to Sherry and Barbara, each child will also get a “medicine bag” to hold the tags so they can remember their new friends.
Delivery will be Monday, July 7th!
I had hoped we would be able to visit on Sunday, and perhaps I’d have some more volunteers to help deliver. But, that’s the day the kids arrive at the camp, and there is just too much activity going on that day. We wouldn’t be able to give them out until 9 p.m. That’s just too late at night! Those children would be exhausted by that time, and to be honest with you I “turn into a pumpkin” long before midnight! Not only that, we would have to drive home on country back roads!
I think I’ve been lost out that way before, and I don’t want to do it again!
So, on Monday, after the campers eat lunch, they will go back to their cabins to rest. At that time, we will visit the cabins and give each child an afghan. I imagine that those of us delivering will split up to visit the cabins. I don’t know what that is going to do to my ability to take pictures. I don’t know how many pictures the camp will allow me to take, anyway.
I’ll keep you posted with more when it happens.
Seeing the faces of those children will be wonderful!
Getting these boxes out of my garage will be quite delightful, too!
[EDITOR'S NOTE: The Share A Square project has ended, and the afghans were delivered on July 7th, 2008. Although we will not continue that project, an exciting NEW endeavor, called the Good Medicine Project is in progress for summer camp 2009. We hope you will join us.]
You’re delivering them on my birthday, so I will definitely remember to send loads of good thoughts your way that day! (Hey, that rhymes…)
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I am so excited too! I can’t wait to hear about it, with or without pictures!
Man oh man, what will you do with your spare time once this is over?
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I’m IN!!!!!! Email, call me, give me the details, my daughter and I will be there with bells on!
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Wow! Finally Shelly…..you have achieved your goal. I knew you would! You are absolutely amazing and so are all the people who have helped you achieve it.
Why is your local newspaper not getting involved? It would be great to have a reporter there taking pics of you handing out those lovely afghans to those wonderful kids!
It’s an amazing story that has touched people from all over the world……so it should be shared in the newspaper…just to show others how 1 lady with 1 dream could make things happen!
I have followed your blog and your shenanigans all year long…and I just don’t know where you get the energy.
You really need a break…time to RELAX…(look it up in the dictionary)you really outdid yourself this year.
I’m truly amazed….and all the people who have helped you should be really, really proud of themselves.
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Shelly - I want to be there soooooooooooooo bad!!!
Next time you do something crazy like this I’m going to plan my vacation around it!!! I was in Lawton, OK in early May & could feeeeeel your energy, I was that close! You go girl!
I plan to pick up a package tomorrow - from Japan - with the last of the bags promised. Huzzah! I will then package them all up and mail them off to you.
You’ve done an awesome job, Shelly! Your readers have been STUPENDOUSly supportive! You and your hubby deserve an empty garage.
smooches!!!
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Congratulations, you have done a very good job. You have demostrated that Internet is a good place to share dreams.
Now, you must take a break and relax yourself.
I am very glad to have met you.
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I would love to help to deliver them, too bad I’m all the way in Ohio. I hope they will let you take pics of some of the “happy” faces. It would be awesome.
I’m crying~this whole thing has been sooo amazing! and it came at THE PERFECT time as I was learning to crochet, and I’ll always be able to tell others to start by crocheting squares for charity~the VERY BEST way to learn! *THANK YOU!* for the opportunity! (((((HUGS))))) sandi
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They are being delivered on my husband’s birthday
I was happy to be a part of this great project.
Linda in Chesapeake Va.
hey there, friend . . . I mailed the box of bags during my lunch hour today - priority - they should arrive Saturday or Monday.
I ended up with 71 - and just had this feeling that there was a reason for that.
HUGZ!
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Shelly,
Congratulations on a worthwhile year of VERY hard work! Thanks for giving me and others the chance to help.
Hats off to you!!!!!
Take Care (and now try to take it easy for a bit), Deborah
I cannot express how excited I am at the success of your dream. I know you credit so many others for all their help, and that is definitely true, and you are so gracious about it, but I will tell you again:
Without your initial idea, your enthusiasm, your magnetic personality, and most of all - your perseverance, tireless energy, and nearly nonstop work on the project it would never have happened. (OK, so you were exhausted, but you know what I mean.)
And, Eric so deserves kudos as well. You and I, and most married women, know that no matter how much he believed in your dream, too, he had to be nearly (grin) as special as you for this to work. A non-willing partner could have so undermined your efforts. So, thank you, Eric, so much, for being you.
You both deserve a break for the two of you, something that does not involve, yarn, boxes, hooks, labels, etc.
I’ll be there in spirit, the corners of our mouth may hurt before the day from all the smiling - you will be smiling for me, too!
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