March For Babies 2012

It's that time of year again!

As you all know, my son who I refer to here on my blog as Turtle-Love was born 5 weeks premature, and spent almost 2 weeks in the NICU receiving treatments. I touched on this briefly in my post about breastfeeding - Our breast feeding journey thus far.

Last year I started a team, in my son's honor, to March for Babies. We are team Little Tiny Love. The March of Dimes hosts the March for Babies each year, in multiple locations nation wide. The March for Babies raises funds and awareness for issues surrounding and causing premature birth, infant death, and birth defects.

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Last year our walking team included myself, my younger sister, and both of our best friends. My best friend even brought her son to keep Turtle-Love company! Together we raised over $500! This year - we are hoping to raise even more.

Between now and our walk on April 29th, I'll be campaigning to raise money to donate in our teams name for this years walk. I'll be posting Turtle-Love's birth story, NICU story, and more during this time. Use the neat little badge I added off to the right(up top) to donate or sign up to join our walking team.

Thank you all in advance!

♥

You love Scentsy? Help send me to BlogHer'12!

After writing my post yesterday, I was contacted by a friend of mine - Independant Scentsy consultant - Monique with an opportunity for a fundraiser. That's right, a fundraiser. To get to BlogHer'12!

I ♥ you Monique!

Monique has been kind enough to set up a fundraiser for me through her Scentsy page. How does it work? Well pretty much...

You click this link to buy Scentsy products

You get taken to this page - make sure you see the Little Tiny Love (BlogHer '12) Fundraiser title at the top


Isn't her page cute?!

Start shopping!

After you make purchases, wonderful mulah will flow to the "Send Little Tiny Love to BlogHer'12" stash box!

Now... if you are wondering to yourself (or aloud)... uh, wtf is Scentsy? Well, Monique can answer that best if I suck at informing you. Pretty much Scentsy provides really nice candle wax warmers (even collegiate sports teams, for the *ahem* sports lover in your life) and over 80 scents of candle wax to put in the warmers. They also have things like tarts, auto-air fresheners, and even Scent Buddies - cute little animals you put scent packs in for your littles (or your self) to snuggle. The warmers come in 3 sizes - full size, mid-size, and plug-in. I personally have a super cute plug-in style warmer in my bathroom (the design is called Taro and has dandelions on it!), currently warming some Eskimo Kiss wax to replace the, uh, fumes that waft from the diaper pail on occasion. I'll say, what a difference! I don't even have to have the warmer on to smell the wax =) Everyone that comes over mentions how lovely it smells, which makes me feel great!

So - go forth and purchase deliciously scented wax, beautiful warmers (or manly - hey that is your business), and help me get to BlogHer'12!

Oh, of course - Thank you in advance =)