Your Hard Work Pays Off

I just wanted to let you know what a difference the blogging community can make! In addition to big organized efforts like Operation Giggle, the blogging community was involved in another big blessing recently, and you might not have known about it.

Back in July, I posted about our need for Pediasure, a high-quality nutritional supplement that helps our littlest heart babies. A few bloggers rallied to the cause and researched options, even finding an alternative product that is powdered and therefore much cheaper to ship. It's called Pediasmart.

They contacted the company that manufactures Pediasmart on our behalf and arranged for a discount for products purchased in bulk to benefit the foster home. For several months, we had individuals who offered to buy a case and ship it to an intern who would bring it when they came to the foster home.

But at the end of 2009, we were contacted directly by Nature's One, the company that makes Pediasmart. They told us that after getting to know the heart of NDFH through the various purchases they'd facilitated over the summer, they'd decided they wanted to donate directly to the foster home.

So they sent us 12 cases of their product, worth nearly $5,000 I'm told! We have so much that we even took it off the foster home's needs list!

Which means that Addison...

And Judah...

And Debra...

And several other little ones have plenty of this much-needed supply... enough to last for months!

Thanks to all of you bloggers who were involved in forming this partnership with Nature's One. We're thankful for your involvement and hope you're encouraged by the result of the ball you started rolling.