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An Innocent Heart Needs Our Help

Can you remember how you felt when you first learned you will be having another child? A new member of the family! Another bundle, another baby that will complete your family. Mye, though her pregnancy was unexpected, was filled with joy and excitement,specially that they will be having a baby boy! A prince, her two princess have long wished for…

Last December 27, the prince arrived! To say Mye’s family was overjoyed is an understatement! But their joy soon turned into worries when they learned about Alphonse heart condition:

Early morning, I got a visit from my anesthesiologist, my OB-Gyne and the Pediatrician. They went straight to inform me about the bad news. My baby has a hole in his heart chambers and that it needs to be checked by a Pedia Cardiologist. It was such a devastating news. What did my baby do to deserve such an illness? He is so tiny and fragile and he had just arrived in our lives. I kept on crying and I can’t bring myself to stop. It is so heartbreaking.
The next doctor who came into my room was the Pedia Cardiologist and he confirmed the illness of my son. He has Tetralogy of Fallot. He further explained that there is a hole between his bottom heart chambers causing him to lack enough oxygen supply to his lungs. It was the reason why he wasn’t crying. It was as if my son understands that the further he cries, the more stressful it will be for his heart.
The doctor was very kind and told us that even though it happened to him at this stage, this illness is curable by surgery. Yes, my little boy will have to undergo an open heart surgery to survive this illness. He needs to have it at 6 weeks old, the earliest but no more than 3 months or he will not make it. He told us how much the surgery will cost and what do we need to prepare. We will need roughly $12,500 for the surgery alone. It was another shocking news but deep in our hearts, we knew there is hope. We are not wealthy and we need to get that amount in a month so we can schedule our baby’s surgery and free him from this very stressful and scary condition.

Alphonse is fighting and as a family, we want to fight with him.

Let us help Alphonse and his family fight.. I know that with your big heart, this little boy’s heart will be saved!

We can help them in so many ways:

Mye have a digital scrapbook store at Pixels & Company. Yuo can purchase her digital products to help her raise the money needed for the operation.

Mye is also a blog designer. You can avail f her blog design services to help her. Check out My Creative Zone for all the graphic services she is offering as well as the rates. If you are interested, you may place your order through HERE.

You can also donate directly to Mye (paypal address is admin@myedeleon.com)

Purchase a link from us ($5 for every link, will be posted in a PR2 blog, together with a 50 word description of your site, personal blogs only, commercial blogs will be charge higher). If interested, kindly fill up this form:

You can also help by spreading the word about this, just copy this blog post or create a new post about Alphonse and ways how people can help his family.

The DIY Princess

Whenever I am in the middle of a DIY project, I would question myself, what am I doing? Why do I need to stress myself this much? What’s the whole sense of it? I can just buy.. that would be easy!

Then again, the need to finish the project overwhelms me. It is too powerful that even back, neck and shoulder pains won’t be able to stop it. Of course, I have a mantra: I can do it! I can do it! I can do it! (yes 3x of that phrase)

Seriously? Why am I really doing this? Say for example the little boxes I did today..2 dozens of those.. one dozen red and one dozen gold. Those boxes were made (OK I may add, painfully but lovingly made) to serve as ornaments for our Christmas Tree (which according to my 3rd boy, should be Christmas 100 a few years from now.. got it?) I spent the whole day making those boxes, not included is the whole day for planning and cutting.. so in all that’s two days! Just for those boxes.. why did I ever thought of doing it when in fact buying Christmas ornaments would be easy.. honestly, I really don’t know.

I am not sure if it is my OCD that’s telling me go through the stress.. and I don’t know, too, if it is my OCD that’s giving me a pat in the back every time I finished a DIY project.. saying it’s all worth the effort, the stress and the back pain. convinced myself that much! hahaha

But yeah.. everything is worth it! talk about self gratification..there is so much about do it yourself projects! Specially diy projects for occasions like Christmas or Birthdays (remember DIY tutu? and DIY paper bags for birthday loots? or how about our Pinata collection? ).

They say, diy-ing is a talent.. and if it is, I am more than blessed to have it and have kids to practice this talent!

Hey, I am not running for being the next DIY Queen, but I’m a DIY princess on my own diy world! *wink!

The Humility Bag

Humility is the best Policy.

that’s a very important I learned when I pick up this bag from the post office..and that experience also reminds me that, with government agency, emotions works better than logic (you must all remember that to have a hassle free transaction with government agencies *wink!)

So from now, on, this bag shall be called the Humility bag.. (I love giving nicknames to my bags.. there’s the dalaga bag, there’s sosyal bag, fasyon bag and lola bag.. I’ll introduce them to you one of these days)

I got the bag from Not On The High Street.. here’s a better photo version:

It’s a pretty overnight bag.. also nice to use as an everyday bag..or events bag (saktong lalagyan ng camera.. o sya sige na nga at ng loots)..

Ang nakakatuwa, I found a wallet that matches this bag from Quirks:

Ang cute di ba? match made from Post Office! hahaha AY you should check out Quirks, browsing alone on their online store is so much fun! Quirks can be your one stop shop for all your quirky needs!