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Last Christmas for 6 year old who loves handmade cards!
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Sending out holiday cards this week? You’ll want to add another name to your list.
Addie Fausett, 6, of Fountain Green, Utah, is likely celebrating her last Christmas this year due to an atrophy of her brain that has left doctors puzzled. And in the face of devastating news, her family has come up with a beautiful idea: They are asking people to send Addie a “lifetime of Christmas cards.”
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Making this time even more difficult for Addie and her sisters, Shayley, 10, and Audree, 7, is the unexpected loss of their father, who passed away over the weekend; he and their mother were separated.
Cards should be addressed to Addie as well as her older sisters. “They are going through a hard time, too,” Brosig says. “We are encouraging the public to reach out to them as well.”
If you’d like to contribute a greeting, send it to:
Addie Lynn and Sisters, P.O. Box 162, Fountain Green, UT 84632
What kinds of cards does Addie like? All kinds—but especially homemade. “Obviously, you can go to Hallmark and get the ones that play music or this or that,” Brosig says, “but the handmade ones—or artwork, if you have a child—is even more special for the family, though, of course, they are just grateful for it all.”
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Oh my! How devastating! I could hardly read this. I will send a card.
Here's mine. It's not put together, but you get the idea. It's a case of a much more complicated and beautiful card. Don't know who the creator of my inspiration is, but maybe you have seen it.
__________________ All I want is the chance to prove money won't make me happy!
Some of the gals from the HYCCT thread noticed this and made cards too. If you put the keyword addie you can find the cards there. Such a good cause, SU had the link on their page too. Hope she's getting tons of cards.
Some of the gals from the HYCCT thread noticed this and made cards too. If you put the keyword addie you can find the cards there. Such a good cause, SU had the link on their page too. Hope she's getting tons of cards.
Sweet Addie and her sisters have been receiving about 1200 cards a day since Thanksgiving. Cards have been received from all over the world including Saudi Arabia.
Eight-year-old Kaitlen Thompson from has cancer of the optic nerve. She found out last year on Christmas day.
Kaitlen's mom, Mary Luna, says she knew something was wrong when Kaitlen's eye appeared to be bulging.
Doctors told her surgery is not an option for the cancer which spread to her pituitary gland.
Right now, Kaitlen is undergoing chemotherapy at st. Louis children's hospital.
But this year, the family hopes for a brighter Christmas than last year by receiving Christmas cards.
There's even a group on facebook encouraging anyone to write to Kaitlen.
"It would make her happy," Luna says. "She'd love it. She loves getting mail, she loves the attention, she loves to see that people care. Because kaitlen, she's a caring one."
Luna says her daughter has an incredibly positive attitude and says she's going to beat this cancer.
If you'd like to send her a card, send it to Kaitlen Thompson, 2516 Charleston Ave, Mattoon, IL. 61938
__________________ If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor, then stop saying you want a country based on Christian values, because you don't. ~ Jimmy Carter
Last Christmas for 6 year old who loves handmade cards!
