I am a 40 year old mother of 5 ages 16, 11, 8, 3 and 2. I taught 7th grade science for 15 years, so I have thousands of "kids." I am now a stay at home mom to my two youngest - Colton just turned 3 and Cade will be 2 shortly. Some days I think teaching 7th graders was easier than a 3 and 2 year old LOL!
When Cade was 25 days old we were given some devastating news. We were told Cade has Cystic Fibrosis. I wish I could say he "had" Cystic Fibrosis, like he had gotten over it, like a cold, but he still has CF and always will. I will get into that day at a later time.
Cade's Cause was started when my son was 2 1/2 months old. We had just lost our home in a storm and had a baby with a disease we really knew nothing about except life expectancy wasn't the greatest. A friend, actually one of my kids from my babysitting days, was kind enough to start a fundraiser for Cade as we were overwhelmed with the cost of taking care of a baby with CF and not having a home. Friends and family rallied around us and away we went.
This past April when the "cold water challenge" was the rage (jumping into cold water to raise awareness and money for different groups, foundations or causes), unknowing to us, we had people jumping for Cade's Cause and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation! Cade's Cause, yet once again, raised awareness to more people about CF.
In May, I tried to do the 31 days of May with a daily fact or story about CF for Cystic Fibrosis Awareness month and made about 20 of the 31 days.
So............... this is where Cade's Cause has lead me to - a blog. I'm still not too sure what a blog is, so into the unknown we go.
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