Wearin' Greene :)

Oh, the guilt for not wearing green! I love to browse the Cerebral Palsy Awareness group on Facebook. It's like shopping without spending anything, only instead of milk or eggs or, you know, maybe ... shoes, I get priceless advice from parents and people who have "been there." I might even get to share some back. And pictures! Lots and lots of pictures of sweet peas! There are also golden nuggets of info to be had for the taking, such as, did you know that March is Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month? And on top of that, March 20th is CP Awareness Day? I didn't, that is, until browsing the CPA aisle. So, what to do in celebration... or, do you really "celebrate" your child's cp? Nope. Mostly, you just wish it was gone and pray for miracles on a daily basis. There are things to celebrate, though, like reaching goals and swift recoveries and support from God, family and friends. For our first CPA day, our family thought it would be great to get as many people as we could to pray on that day for as many CPA group families as possible. The person holding the "event" on fb also asked everyone to wear green as it is the official color for cp awareness, (didn't know that until the shopping trip either) So I passed the request along. Little by little responses came back and 41 people agreed to join in! Woohoo! Saturday morning found our family clustered around the computer in our jammies, praying for the family of a little boy whose birthday just so happened to be that day! Then came the dilemma: Lucas and I were to spend time working on the bathroom. I'd be snapping chalk lines, drilling holes, and vacuuming cement board dust, bleh! Can't do that in my one and only green sweater. Plus, I just wore it for St. Patty's and it's still in the wash. Oh well. Who's gonna know?

Later, notes came rolling in, "Got my green on!" Great. Now I have guilt. Might seem silly, but I'd asked everybody else to do it. Hmmm. The it dawned on me. When Micah cuddled on my lap that morning, I wore Greene. When I carried him to the table for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, I wore Greene. When he snuggled with me for bedtime stories, I wore Greene. The very, very best shade!