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Walk For Maddie

Posted by Lotus, aka Sarcastic Mom in Friends, Love, Making A Difference, Mental/Emotional, Miscellaneous Blabbering, Parenting on April 13, 2009

Scroll down for MoD Walk 4 Maddie Teams list!


April 7th, 2009, Madeline Alice Spohr unexpectedly passed away. Now, people all over are coming together to honor her and her family.  This post will show you a few ways you can do the same.

People around the country are organizing teams to walk in Maddie’s honor at their upcoming March of Dimes Walks. It is so easy for you to join in.  Just sign up with the team close to you and go walk that day.

I’ll update here as new teams are announced.

Facebook Walk Teams Group

Click Here for How To Start A MoD Walk 4 Maddie Team

Click to see a map of teams so far, it’s pretty darn cool.

Teams assembled so far:

(alphabetical by state)

*Organizers: please inform me of your teams so I can add them.

If you want to join one of these teams and walk for Maddie – please make sure you click over to the team page and sign up to join that team, so that you’ll be on the roster. It’s very easy and free, so make sure you complete that step so each team knows who’s walking with them!

It will ask you to enter an amount as you goal when you sign up.  Just enter anything – you can edit it later if you want. Don’t sweat that part, just throw something down and sign on.

Service for Madeline: Tuesday April 14 at 2:30 pm, Old North Church, Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills.

Central Page for all things Maddie:
March for Maddie

More information:
For Maddie
March for Maddie
Mad About Maddie Spohr (Paypal button code here!)
In Maddie’s Name
Flickr Group In Honor of Maddie (anything to honor her, including photos of you in purple for her)

Madeline Alice Spohr – this photo was posted by many at 2:30 Pacific Time 4/14 to honor Maddie

Operation Purple Balloon – Please Participate!

Purple for Maddie Spohr – if you’re wearing purple for Maddie, or turned your blog or twitter page/avatar purple for her, please add your link to the appropriate section here.

Beautiful Memorial Video For Maddie by newrose

Shirts have been designed (by Heather Durdil) in purple with Maddie’s face on them.  These are available for purchase here: Maddie’s T’s All proceeds go to The Spohr Family.

John, Braden and I are committed to Nashville Team Maddie. We’d love for anyone in the surrounding areas to join our team and walk along with us.

Information for the Nashville Walk:

Nashville Team Maddie Page – please go there and register with our team!

April 19, 2009
Centennial Park
2500 West End Ave
Nashville, TN 37203

If you can’t walk with us, please make a donation: any amount will help us get to our team goal for Maddie. (These donations are in Maddie’s name, even though the account carries my name – I had to create a profile to be able to create “Nashville Team Maddie.”)
Thank you so very much.

You can also still offer to help Heather & Mike with expenses via Paypal: formaddie@hotmomreviews.com

Or donate to March of Dimes directly through Maddie’s Original Donation Page

PS: Any incentives earned from donations to the Nashville Team Maddie walk team will be turned over directly to The Spohrs.

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Clean the shirts on their backs by putting one on yours.

Posted by Lotus, aka Sarcastic Mom in Haiku, Making A Difference, Poetry on March 13, 2009

The putrid piles of
clothing in my house are proof
of this one truth: I

hate doing laundry.
But at least I have the means.
Some out there do not.

The term that is used
is “natural disaster.”
I’m sure the victims

feel anything but
natural picking up the
pieces of their lives.

I have not suffered
severe destruction but
just thinking about

the devastation
after floods, hurricanes, and
twisters, I shudder.

At such desperate
times, I can imagine that
all help is welcome.

Tide is offering
practical help to those who
need it in this way:

You buy a shirt here;
proceeds provide clothes cleaning
service for victims.

So now even if
I am not cleaning my own
family’s clothing…

I can take comfort
in knowing that I’m helping
clean laundry elsewhere. ;-)

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The Elves Came Early

Posted by Lotus, aka Sarcastic Mom in Depression, Friends, Love, Making A Difference, Mental/Emotional on December 24, 2008

They told some of my friends to send me things… they all chose things that would comfort me… how did they know? Now these are good friends…

Like my Cheese, Fruit & Cookies-Giving Friend…
12.12.08 When Others Lift You Up
She even put in presents for Braden to keep him distracted.


Or my Coffee-Giving Friend…
12.17.08 From My Coffee Angel
Gorgeous Tumbler and Charged Card so I can buy coffee and get free internet access at Starbucks. Me time!
*faints*


Or how about my Beautiful Soaps & Chapsticks-Giving Friend?
12.18.08 From My Beautiful Soaps & Chapsticks Angel
This was so perfect for me… I have a chapstick addiction. Do you know what I mean? Anyone?


And who can overlook my Chocolate & HooHaa Care-Giving Friend?
12.17.08 From My Chocolate and HooHaa Helper Angel
Gotta love a pad with BEWBS drawn on the wrapper. Also? Don’t touch my Russell Stover German Black Forest Truffle or you will draw back a nub.

And then I will rip off your nub and bludgeon you with it.

Yes, it’s that serious.


So, Nub Bludgeoning aside… would you be willing to give me a gift? Do me a favor right now and gift me this Christmas by doing something for someone else.

It’s really easy; all you have to do is click a link.

That’s right. I want you to click a link. Until the end of December, every time you click this link, or load any of the other pages on that website, you help earn ad revenue, 100% of which will be donated to a non-profit charity called “To Write Love on Her Arms.” (You can check the charity out here.  Make a donation, buy a shirt.  I’m going to buy a shirt… I’ll post photos of me in it later, even.)

They are “dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for those struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury, and suicide.”



So, from a person depressed as she’s ever been this Christmas, please click. Click as many times as you feel moved to click, between now and the end of December 2008.

If you click right now, leave a comment on that post, then come back to me and tell me you did it.  It’s like my Christmas present. But even if you don’t feel like coming back, just click anyway, ok?

Merry Christmas, to all of you. And thank you.

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