Jillie Pays It Forward - Fundraiser

JILLIE UPDATE: 

Jillie is feeling healthy and ready to pay it forward!

For those of you who are new here and don't know about Jillie, let me give you a brief introduction. Jillie is the daughter of close friends of mine and was diagnosed with Acute Myloid Leukemia last year at the age of 2.5. My blog and followers rallied around her with giveaways, messages, love and support and her story has a happy ending as she is now in remission and cancer free!

While in the hospital where she spent nearly every day for 4 months her family noticed the lack of good healthy food and an over abundance of junk food easily handed out to the children with cancer. 

Jillie and her family are now trying to pay it forward. Raising money to bring change and healthy food options to the hospital where Jillie was staying. They believe healthy food in can create such a difference in the healing of these children.

Please visit Jillie's site to read more about her story and the need to pay it forward. Please donate if you can or share her story to make a difference. If everyone donated even just $1 the impact could be so great! Thank You!

Rally 4 Jillie - Week 10 Giveaway

This is week 10 of 9 weeks of giveaways!

(that's right! We had so much support we are able to bring you and Jillie another giveaway) 

All sponsored by amazing companies with 

huge hearts and all for little Jillie. 

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WEEK 10 GIVEAWAY

This giveaway will run from December 31-January 6 and is hosted by Kids, Clutter & Chaos and A Spectacled Owl!

This week's giveaway is sponsored by the following companies...

In The Zone Entertainment Group: Global entertainment company specializing in serving families, kids and tweens (ages 4-12) with music entertainment content! They are sponsoring a ZhuZhu Pets Gift Set which includes...(1 ZhuZhu Pets Meet The Beatles CD, 1 Quest For Zhu movie DVD,1 Quest For Zhu soundtrack CD, 4 ZhuZhu Pets movie character figurines, 1 ZhuZhu Baby toy with accessories, 1 movie poster and kid's activity book!

Music for Little People: Celebrating Over 25 Years Of The Best In Children's Music, Music For Little People has garnered over 140 awards, including:

• 53 Parents' Choice awards (20 Gold and 2 Classic Gold)
• 16 American Library Association "Notable Children's Recording" awards
• 10 Oppenheim Toy Portfolio awards (including 4 Gold and 6 Platinum)
• 20 National Association of Parenting Publications (NAPPA) awards (including 11 Gold)
• 2 Grammy® nominations in the "Best Children's Recording" category
• They have also received Parents' Magazine Parents' Prize awards and National Association of Independent Record Distributors "Indie" awards

In addition to CDs they also manufacture and sell DVDs, MP3 & CD Players and Musical Instruments.

Green Kid Crafts: Green Kid Crafts is the maker of the original kids craft subscription box. They are a mom-owned, green company that provides sustainable crafts for kids. Their eco shop provides monthly gifts for kids & more. Whether you are looking for green gifts for kids or eco craft products, their crafts and activities for children are sure to please. With Green Kid Crafts, both parents and kids can enjoy crafts and activities for children that spark creativity and cultivate respect and love for the environment. (Review 1) (Review 2)

Children Inspire Design: Children Inspire Design is a line of modern, eco-friendly and culturally diverse artwork designed to help children learn compassion for our earth and all who inhabit it. Each piece incorporates repurposed paper materials, soy inks, and biodegradable packaging. Encompassing everything from prints to posters, wall cards and more, the line even offers a very special Global Compassion Poster of which 100% of the proceeds go to Future Fortified to help provide nutrients for children around the world.

Lets Go Chipper from IAGmedia: The perfect gift for family travel! Soar to new heights with Chipper as he takes his first flight. From what to pack, to check-in, security, boarding, flying and arriving, Chipper playfully teaches kids good manners and safety when traveling. Eco-friendly packaging - arrives in a reusable tote! Includes:Story and Activity Book, 8-Pack crayons, Plush Pillow “back” Pack and Reusable Tote Bag.

It's all good. IAGmedia Inc. is a family-lifestyle entertainment company developing award-winning educational apps, movies, music, and books for children. We are committed to delivering products and programs that help build good character and positive life values in young children while helping encourage future stewards of the environment. Based on the principles of 4-H (head, heart, hands, and health) our characters and stories instill in children a sense of respect for self and family, and inspire contribution to community.

Prize Package includes for one winner: 

1. Zhu Zhu Pet Gift Set from In the Zone Entertainment Group

2. 6 Children's CD's from Music for Little People

3. Discovery Box from Green Kid Crafts

4. When Skies are Grey 11x14 print from Children Inspire Design

5. Let's Go Chipper Activity Set from IAG Media

Not only will one of you win this amazing HUGE prize package, but the same prizes will be sent to Jillie in the hospital as well! AMAZING!

In case you missed what Rally 4 Jillie is all about, read on then enter the giveaway below. I am truly blessed to have the opportunity to work with these amazing companies who have stepped up to help. 

If you would like to sponsor and be part of these giveaways please feel free to contact me.

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It is hard to even know where to begin this post and even harder for me to write it. As most of us are parents to young children you all know how hard it can be to see our children sick or hurt. I can't even begin to imagine the feeling of finding out your child has the dreaded "C" word. Cancer.

No child should have to face cancer. They shouldn't even have to know what cancer means. They should be riding bikes, playing, going to school and just being kids!

Why am I writing this about cancer? Thankfully both of my boys are healthy. However a close family friend of mine hasn't been so lucky. Her little girl Jillie, just 2.5 years old was just diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia. A fast moving, aggressive form of leukemia that if not treated, could be fatal in a few months.

Luckily after weeks of being sick, Jillie was diagnosed and quickly moved to an amazing children's hospital. She will now be living in the Ronald McDonald housing for the next 6 to 12 months as she undergoes many many treatments and blood transfusions.

Remember she is just 2.5 years old. How do you even begin to explain to her what is going on and why she is now living far away from home and facing months and months of treatments?

So far Jillie is being a rockstar and keeping a smile on her face! She actually feels good with new healthy blood running through her! She is a fighter and one tough little girl. If anyone can fight this it is Jillie and her family.

In my small way of feeling less helpless and helping out in any way I can, I've started Rally for Jillie on my blog! I'm seeking sponsors willing to donate two items. One to add to the giveaways and one to send to Jillie. My hope is that this will keep her spirits up, help keep her occupied, to just keep her being a kid through this ordeal.

If I could hug the sponsors that have stepped up to help, I would in a heartbeat!  Their kindness and generosity to help a sick little girl says more about these companies than any review I could ever post. So if you are reading this, please take a moment to show some love to these amazing companies. To thank them for their small act of kindness that can go a long way in the journey to heal and cure baby Jillie.

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ENTER HERE!

And please if the kindness of these sponsors have touched your hearts like it has mine, take an extra minute to say thank you on their Facebook pages or in a quick email.

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Rally 4 Jillie - Week 9 Giveaway

This is week 9 of 9 weeks of giveaways!

(stay tuned, we may have a couple more up our sleeves!) 

All sponsored by amazing companies with 

huge hearts and all for little Jillie. 

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WEEK 9 GIVEAWAY

This giveaway will run from December 17-December 24 and is hosted by Kids, Clutter & Chaos and A Spectacled Owl!

This week's giveaway is sponsored by the following companies...

Mona Melisa Designs: Mona MELisa Designs offers their customers the most unique and customized children's growth charts, wall murals and name signs in the marketplace. By allowing customers to choose different color schemes to fit any room décor, add names to any of the growth charts or name signs and choose customized characters and features for each growth chart, wall mural or name sign, each child gets to display and own a unique masterpiece! Customers can choose from different hair, eye and skin colors for each character featured on their chosen piece of artwork and in this way, the artwork is special to each child who receives it. (Review) USE CODE: JILLIE1212 for 60% off any purchase from their website! NO LIMITS! Use it as many times as you would like!

Zoobies: Zoobies, LLC was created by two young brothers who shared a common desire to invent something that was fun, innovative and functional. Coming from a large family of nine children, they saw the need to consolidate what one could bring on long road trips and family excursions; something to make life easier for mom. And Zoobies was born! A soft, huggable plush toy that is also a pillow and a blanket in one! Zoobies never cuts corners and make high quality and innovation their standards! (Review)

Learning Resources: Learning Resources® is a leading global manufacturer of innovative, hands-on educational products trusted by teachers and parents and loved by children. The Company's 1100+ high-quality products are sold in more than 80 countries, serving children and their families, preschool, kindergarten, primary, and middle-school markets. Their mission is to support teachers and parents by providing unique, high-quality educational tools that enhance instruction and provide engaging learning experiences that meet children's individual needs. (Review)

Adventures with Wink & Blink: Multi award winning educational video series for preschoolers! A Day in the Life of a Garbage Truck and A Day in the Life of a Zoo. A fun, exciting way of learning for your children. (Review)

Babiators: Babiators are sunglasses for you kids and they protect your child's eyes at a critical time – Babiators’ lenses offer 100% protection from UVA and UVB rays. They test every shipment to ensure that Babiators comply with the most stringent regulations in the world for BPA, phthalates, lead, and other metals. Their top quality 100% UVA and UVB protection lenses are also impact and shatter-resistant. So when you buy Babiators, you can rest assured that you are buying the best sunglasses out there for your little one! They are pretty darn sure your Babiators won’t break, and they believe that protecting kids’ eyes is too important to overlook simply because sunglasses might get lost. That’s why if a child's Babiators are lost or broken, they will replace them!

The Vintage Pearl:  The Vintage Pearl creates unique and meaningful handstamped jewelry and keepsakes. Each piece is handcrafted from start to finish with care in their studio in Tulsa, Oklahoma. They use raw sterling silver, freshwater pearls and birthstone crystals in their creations. 

Each letter is individually stamped by hand, they do not use a machine, making every piece a true one-of-a-kind! Their jewelry is customized with any names, dates or words of inspiration, and they have several fonts and charm shapes to choose from. They want your piece to be meaningful to you.

Prize Package includes for one winner: 

1. Item of your choice from MonaMelisa Designs

2. A blanket pet of your choice from Zoobies

3. Alpha Pops Learning Popsicles from Learning Resources

4. Two Wink & Blink video downloads

5. Pair of sunglasses from Babiators

6. $25 gift certificate to The Vintage Pearl

Not only will one of you win this amazing HUGE prize package, but the same prizes will be sent to Jillie in the hospital as well! AMAZING!

In case you missed what Rally 4 Jillie is all about, read on then enter the giveaway below. I am truly blessed to have the opportunity to work with these amazing companies who have stepped up to help. 

If you would like to sponsor and be part of these giveaways please feel free to contact me.

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It is hard to even know where to begin this post and even harder for me to write it. As most of us are parents to young children you all know how hard it can be to see our children sick or hurt. I can't even begin to imagine the feeling of finding out your child has the dreaded "C" word. Cancer.

No child should have to face cancer. They shouldn't even have to know what cancer means. They should be riding bikes, playing, going to school and just being kids!

Why am I writing this about cancer? Thankfully both of my boys are healthy. However a close family friend of mine hasn't been so lucky. Her little girl Jillie, just 2.5 years old was just diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia. A fast moving, aggressive form of leukemia that if not treated, could be fatal in a few months.

Luckily after weeks of being sick, Jillie was diagnosed and quickly moved to an amazing children's hospital. She will now be living in the Ronald McDonald housing for the next 6 to 12 months as she undergoes many many treatments and blood transfusions.

Remember she is just 2.5 years old. How do you even begin to explain to her what is going on and why she is now living far away from home and facing months and months of treatments?

So far Jillie is being a rockstar and keeping a smile on her face! She actually feels good with new healthy blood running through her! She is a fighter and one tough little girl. If anyone can fight this it is Jillie and her family.

In my small way of feeling less helpless and helping out in any way I can, I've started Rally for Jillie on my blog! I'm seeking sponsors willing to donate two items. One to add to the giveaways and one to send to Jillie. My hope is that this will keep her spirits up, help keep her occupied, to just keep her being a kid through this ordeal.

If I could hug the sponsors that have stepped up to help, I would in a heartbeat!  Their kindness and generosity to help a sick little girl says more about these companies than any review I could ever post. So if you are reading this, please take a moment to show some love to these amazing companies. To thank them for their small act of kindness that can go a long way in the journey to heal and cure baby Jillie.

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ENTER HERE!

And please if the kindness of these sponsors have touched your hearts like it has mine, take an extra minute to say thank you on their Facebook pages or in a quick email.

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Rally 4 Jillie - Week 7 Giveaway

This is week 7 of 9 weeks of giveaways! 

All sponsored by amazing companies with 

huge hearts and all for little Jillie. 

**With special thanks to Copy Kids, for without them this all would not be possible.**

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WEEK 7 GIVEAWAY

This giveaway will run from December 3-December 9 and is hosted by Kids, Clutter & Chaos and A Spectacled Owl!

This week's giveaway is sponsored by the following companies...

Copy Kids: A joy-filled video and an innovative tool for parents who want to get children to enjoy eating fruits and vegetables. (Review)

JennyBec's: JennyBec's is truly a one of a kind children's boutique. From books, toys, games, furniture, wall art, and fine linens, you will find all you want from newborn through Tween. They pride themselves on being able to provide practically any gift, toy or furnishing. Shop online or experience shopping at a "Mom n'Pop" shop in West LA's Brentwood Neighborhood.

Rock N Learn: Rock 'N Learn began as an idea that would help children learn by putting educational material to music with a current sound -- the kind of music that kids enjoy and find motivating. Now with over 50 products, they have sold millions of audio/book and video programs to teachers and parents throughout the United States, Canada, and other countries. Rock 'N Learn programs help students learn math, phonics, reading, early childhood, social studies, Spanish, test-taking strategies, writing, and science. (Review)

Scentsy Independent Consultant: Jeannette Segerson: Jeannette emailed me to help as she has lost family members herself to cancer. She is a stay at home mom of 2 beautiful girls and has a heart of gold. A busy mom out to make a difference! Please show her some support if you need your Scentsy or Velata fix! {Scentsy began with a simple idea — a safe, wickless alternative to scented candles — and quickly grew into one of the most successful direct selling companies in the world. This wickless concept is simply decorative ceramic warmers designed to melt scented wax with the heat of a light bulb instead of a traditional wick and flame.}

Velata Independent Consultant: Jeannette Segerson: Jeannette emailed me to help as she has lost family members herself to cancer. She is a stay at home mom of 2 beautiful girls and has a heart of gold. A busy mom out to make a difference! Please show her some support if you need your Scentsy or Velata fix! {Whether you are a foodie, a trendsetter, or just someone who thinks of chocolate as its own food group, Velata fondue products are for you. 

• premium Belgian chocolate

• gluten free
•  dark chocolate is dairy free
• All processed in a plant that does not process tree nuts or peanuts
Velvety smooth rich chocolate and warmers making chocolate fondue easy and fun! From the Scentsy family.} THIS LOOKS SOOOO GOOD! A great gift idea!

Adventures with Wink & Blink: Multi award winning educational video series for preschoolers! A Day in the Life of a Garbage Truck and A Day in the Life of a Zoo. A fun, exciting way of learning for your children. (Review)

Prize Package includes for one winner: 

1. Copy Kids Eat Fruits & Vegetables DVD

2. Desk to Go from JennyBec's

3. Dance with the Animals DVD from Rock N Learn

4. Scentsy Buddy of your choice from Jeannette Segerson

5. Two Velata Chocolate Packs of your choice from Jeannette Segerson

6. Two Wink & Blink video downloads

Not only will one of you win this fun prize package, but the same prize will be sent to Jillie in the hospital as well! AMAZING!

In case you missed what Rally 4 Jillie is all about, read on then enter the giveaway below. I am truly blessed to have the opportunity to work with these amazing companies who have stepped up to help. 

If you would like to sponsor and be part of these giveaways please feel free to contact me.

_________________________________________________________________________

It is hard to even know where to begin this post and even harder for me to write it. As most of us are parents to young children you all know how hard it can be to see our children sick or hurt. I can't even begin to imagine the feeling of finding out your child has the dreaded "C" word. Cancer.

No child should have to face cancer. They shouldn't even have to know what cancer means. They should be riding bikes, playing, going to school and just being kids!

Why am I writing this about cancer? Thankfully both of my boys are healthy. However a close family friend of mine hasn't been so lucky. Her little girl Jillie, just 2.5 years old was just diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia. A fast moving, aggressive form of leukemia that if not treated, could be fatal in a few months.

Luckily after weeks of being sick, Jillie was diagnosed and quickly moved to an amazing children's hospital. She will now be living in the Ronald McDonald housing for the next 6 to 12 months as she undergoes many many treatments and blood transfusions.

Remember she is just 2.5 years old. How do you even begin to explain to her what is going on and why she is now living far away from home and facing months and months of treatments?

So far Jillie is being a rockstar and keeping a smile on her face! She actually feels good with new healthy blood running through her! She is a fighter and one tough little girl. If anyone can fight this it is Jillie and her family.

In my small way of feeling less helpless and helping out in any way I can, I've started Rally for Jillie on my blog! I'm seeking sponsors willing to donate two items. One to add to the giveaways and one to send to Jillie. My hope is that this will keep her spirits up, help keep her occupied, to just keep her being a kid through this ordeal.

If I could hug the sponsors that have stepped up to help, I would in a heartbeat!  Their kindness and generosity to help a sick little girl says more about these companies than any review I could ever post. So if you are reading this, please take a moment to show some love to these amazing companies. To thank them for their small act of kindness that can go a long way in the journey to heal and cure baby Jillie.

_____________________________________________________________________

ENTER HERE!

And please if the kindness of these sponsors have touched your hearts like it has mine, take an extra minute to say thank you on their Facebook pages or in a quick email.

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