For those of you who may not know, Jasmina is a very creative and crafty person. While I’d visited in Toronto, she’d started smocking little gowns for infants resembling something like this, for sale at the Sick Kids Hospital gift shop. The reason I mention this, before leaving you with a note from Jasmina, is that I’ve added a badge to the blog encouraging people to buy handmade this holiday season. Here are five good reasons taken from the website that has over 4 400 supporters:
- Handmade supports individuality
- It’s thoughtful, unique and meaningful
- “Everytime you buy handmade, a warm fuzzie is born”
- It beats store lines
- It won’t be recalled from China
Here are some ideas:
- Ten Thousand Villages supporting fair trade
- Etsy the biggest online resource for all things handmade
- Botanical Paperworks here in Winnipeg! Plantable paper!
- Baking, crafts, decor… Martha Stewart can inspire anything!
And, to end the week, a thank-you note from Jasmina.
Hello friends,
It has been such a wonderful time being able to go to Winnipeg and be home with our beloved David and all of you… It was a very emotional time to embrace all the bad memories we had at our house of Sebastien being soooo sick and this visit gave us the opportunity to embrace those bad memories and transform them and create new wonderful memories… and there is no place like home… being able to eat a home cooked meal or even just being able to sleep in our own bed… ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh it was soooo nice, seeing all of you and just feeling like a normal family to welcome home David after his long day at work just meant a loooooooooooooot… it meant soooooooooooooo much to Sebastien and me… thank you from the bottom of our heart… it was very difficult to leave our home but we are challenging and embracing Sebastien’s journey for a kidney transplant and all the work up for it… sooo we had to move into a one bed room apartment close to the hospital as Sebastien goes every day for his treatments there… I would like to really thank all of you for having made our home visit such a wonderful time and it really really gave us more strength to continue to support our sweet son Sebastien on his journey towards his future kidney transplant…
Well, thank you all for having welcomed us home and a big thank you to you David that really tried sooo hard to get us home for this home visit and organized with the Toronto Team and Winnipeg Team everything and the wonderful Suprise Party… it was amazing…
Sebastien goes Monday, Wednesday, Friday, & Saturday to Dialysis in the morning hours. The other days he goes to Physio or OT (Occupational Therapy) and usually Sunday is our day off… Soooo usually after Sebastien is gone to bed at 9:00 p.m. things are more quiet.He also is getting a antibiotic treatment every 8 hours – at 11:00 a.m., 7:00 p.m., and 3:00 a.m., which is via IV and takes me about 1 hour from start to finish……
Other than that Sebastien is just blooming in his developement and he is even eating again some ice cream and sweet potatoes… thanks to David’s exellent effort… and he is nearly getting himself into sitting position from lying down all by himself… yeahhh thanks to David’s hard work on Physio with him….
Thanks also to eveyone helping us with the move to the apartment and to everyone donating items for this too… xooxooxooxoooxoxoxooxooxx
Take care and God bless
With Love xoxooxoxooxoxxooxxoxo
little monkey Sebastien xoxoxo & David & Jasmina xooxox
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