The Twinkies

Dear Zoe and Lennox,

I did a Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep shoot this morning. The baby girl was born at 21 weeks and was tiny and utterly perfect. I thought about you two while I was taking her picture, how tiny you were and how beautiful. You are why I signed up as a volunteer with NILMDTS. Now, since I did this shoot for you this morning I want you to do something for me. Look after your mama. She’s a strong and courageous woman but she misses you.

Love,

Your “Internet Auntie” Stacie
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The Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep Foundation (NILMDTS) administers a network of more than 5,000 volunteer photographers in the United States and nineteen International countries. At a family’s request, a NILMDTS Affiliated Photographer will come to your hospital or hospice location and conduct a sensitive and private portrait session. The portraits are then professionally retouched and presented to the families on an archival DVD or CD that can be used to print portraits of their cherished baby. If you do not know about Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep I encourage you to click on the link and learn more about what they do.

Please consider donating to the Zoe and Lennox Simpson Memorial Fund. This fund will go to the Cook Children’s Hospital to fund neonatal research.

Thank you all for your generous donations to the Zoe and Lennox Memorial Fund via advertising exploration and Amazon shopping. I just sent in the donation, a grand total of $250. You can still donate directly by clicking on the tree in the sidebar or THIS LINK.

You have raised via shopping and general fascination with advertisements over $200 for the Zoe and Lennox Memorial Fund. Amazon doesn’t credit my account until the ordered items ship so I won’t have an exact number for a few days. If you would like to still donate you can click the tree on the sidebar for information o how to donate directly or send money via paypal to books at bastetweb dot com and I will add the paypal contributions to the check I send in.

I have become a Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep volunteer photographer. Or, rather, I am in the process of doing so. I’ve been approved, I’ve paid my membership fee and I have registered for the forum. That registration has to get manually approved and then I have to sort through a mountain of information.

What is NILMDTS you ask? NILMDTS is a network of volunteer photographers that provide private portrait sessions in hospitals and hospices for families whose baby will not survive.

You can see a Today show segment on NILMDTS HERE.

James and Fiona are going to donate all of their March blog college fund earnings to the Zoe and Lennox Simpson Memorial Fund. This fund will go to the Cook Children’s Hospital to fund neonatal research. You know what to do to make their donation larger.