Hey there Blog World 
When I was a little kid I always used to walk around the house with a toy baby in my hand. I loved to play house, feed my babies, walk my babies, and take my babies to the grocery store with my parents. I can even remember laughing and telling my mom all the time “Mommy, I want to be a Mommy!” Lastly, I was even blessed enough to have such an amazing mother growing up that she would even make “mini” pancakes for my babies whenever she cooked them for me in the morning. In short, I’ve always known since I was a little kid that I wanted to be a “mommy” and that I loved babies.
But I never knew this much.
Now my friends at school are some pretty spectacular people I will preface by saying. A lot of them confuse my passion for the March of Dimes and passion for cute children and babies for having “baby fever” or wanting to immediately jump up, get married, and have children. While they are pretty far from the truth I will honestly say I think because of the awesome mom I grew up with I have always had a really strong maternal spirit about me. Yes, very mature observation to be declaring and making at only 20 years old but none-the-less true.
My good friend Kasey and I like to spend our afternoons chatting away on GChat about our favorite football team the Pittsburgh Steelers, communication and marketing topics, and most importantly causes and people we are passionate about. Kasey, knowing that I’m a complete nut for the March of Dimes, shared with me a week ago a link that truly changed my life. That link was to Heather Spohr’s blog.
http://thespohrsaremultiplying.com is a blog updated by Heather Spohr, the mother of recently passed preemie Madeline Spohr, a little girl with a true sparkle and spunk for life. After reading Heather’s blogs about the complications with pregnancy and the loss of her daughter I couldn’t help but feel moved to do some sort of action. I don’t know if it was the gorgeous photos of the most beautiful smile I have ever seen, the heart wrenching pain of parents dealing with unfathomable loss, or if it was just God telling me that I needed to make a difference – whatever reason suited me best…I couldn’t sit back and not act.
If you really love Facebook as much as I do I hope that you check out http://apps.facebook.com/causes/281594?m=3f1cca43 and invite all of your friends. I am dedicating myself this summer to trying to find 1 million Facebook users who will dedicate themselves to Marching for Maddie in the 2009-2010 March for Babies walks.
From the outside looking in it is so easy to judge and think that trying to find 1 million people is impossible but I know that challenges are meant to be welcomed and I hope that everyone will join me on this journey as well.
In short, please check out the Spohr’s Blog and join the cause to March for Maddie on Facebook. I’ll be forever grateful if you could invite your friends to join as well.
Every comment on this post letting me know you invited your friends to the Facebook Cause will result in 3 chances to win one of the Microsoft Wireless mice (haha, that sounds funny!)
I’m committing myself to something that is much bigger then me, won’t you join me?
Love 4 Babies….Love 4 Maddie,
-Kristen
