May 24, 2006

help a princess out

Once upon a time, a woman in Montana started a blog. She wrote about her son (Sweetboy) and her fire-fighter husband (Hot Stuff) and her sister, who is Miss Rodeo Montana (yes, really!). She wrote about having a miscarriage and branding cattle and what you wear to work on a day when the high temperature will be a double digit negative number. She posted a recipie for vodka jello eggs.

Recently, Homestead (that’s the nice woman’s name) wrote about a friend of hers, a little girl named Nadine. Nadine is seven and she loves princesses and she has cancer. For the second time. She had surgery recently to remove a tumor the size of a golf ball; this week she is in the hospital for her first round of chemo.

Homestead, who is herself a mama (with one on the way) and an all-around good person, wanted to do something. And so she asked her sister, Miss Rodeo Montana, if she could borrow her sister’s PO box and ask people to send Nadine cards, princess cards, if possible. The details, and the address, are here.

My friend Jennifer and I have been talking a lot lately about prayer and the different ways that people pray. Jennifer talks about “prayers with feet,” which is more than just saying some words and hoping that things all work out okay; it is doing something purposeful and mindful as a way of remembering someone and marking their importance in your life. Please keep Nadine and her family in whatever kind of prayers you say, and please PLEASE put some feet on your prayers and send Nadine a card. You might send one to her brother, too, as this will be hard for him as well.

And then hug your own little princes and princesses.

Edited to add: I’ve closed comments on this post not because I don’t love you all (you know I do) but because I want you to use that energy to send Nadine a card. But if you have any questions, feel free to e-mail me at fridayplaydate AT cox DOT net, or leave Homestead a comment.

And thank you. From the bottom of my heart. Thank you.

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