Update March for Babies.

Hey Everyone.  Our family's March for Babies team is off to a great start!  We are $20 short of $1000.00 raised so far for the March of Dimes this year.  Can you help us reach it?  We are trying to ultimately raise at least $5000.00 for them this year. The walk is on April 26th.  It'll be here sooner than it seems so we need your help now.   Click the link on the side of my blog/or below to make a donation. TY! Any size donation would be great!  One person can donate $20, 4 people can donate $5 or 20 can donate $1 & we still reach it.  Thank you---- we so appreciate your help.  xo   :)   Missy


www.marchforbabies.org/meliwil

Little Miss... Brutally honest

The other day my daughter Emily was being her brutally honest self.  Telling me I'm the worst singer in the world.  Partly I think because she kind of enjoys getting a rise out of me. This is probably a little bit of Emily just being Emily & also just part of being a young teenager.  BUT She constantly is telling me I am the "worst" singer in the world.  Sometimes it gets annoying.  Anyway on this particular day I shot her the look like,  well maybe I am but that wasn't very nice.  So she quickly changes it to... "ok well.... you are the worst singer in this house".  As if that's better.   Now don't get me wrong I am awful.  I can't remember lyrics to save my life & can't keep a tune for that matter either.  My singing is bad. real bad. So maybe she's right but she should just keep it to herself.  Not Emily though... she blurts things out all the time that maybe she shouldn't.  That mental filter thing... well she's still working on that.   Anyway... so I say you are always telling me what I'm not good at.  Why not tell me something I'm the best at.  She says... "Well you are the best at taking care of me when I'm sick"  AWWWW.... Ok... all is forgiven.  :) 

Here's a picture....

A picture from the 2015 March of Dimes Kickoff dinner... Brian & Emily sharing her preemie story and encouraging the "family teams" to keep on.... Marching for the babies.  :)

Life.. updated

So I thought I'd hop on here to give an update.  Emily got her high school schedule in the mail a few days ago.  The main 4 subjects which were "suggested" based on her grades/test/ report cards over the last few years of middle school were  HONORS English,  HONORS Geometry, HONORS lab science, & HONORS World History!!! WOW!! We are so proud of all her hard work over the last 2 1/2 years to have earned those classes.  WOW! Impressive! That's the most honor classes a freshman can take.    Fingers crossed she can manage all them----- if her history is any indication she'll do just fine.  Fingers crossed *anyway though.  :)   Our family attended the March of Dimes 2015 Fundraising kickoff last night.... & guess what?  Emily became a "local" ambassador for our chapter.  SUPER COOL!   Brian also shared our NICU story & we were very touched by the other "family" team's there who shared their stories of their journey with premature birth.   We were very moved and reminded why we care so much about helping the March of Dimes so that all babies can be born healthy!!!!! We will be starting our March for Babies fundraising soon.... so come back here from time to time to check out our progress & please help anyway you can,  join our team, walk with us or simply donate to our family team.  I'll put up links soon. TY!