Mini-Update
1.) We have fourty-five out of fifty United States! We are still missing Maine, New Hampshire, New Mexico, South Dakota and Wyoming.
We can do this folks! Let's get all fifty!
2.) We have added some additional countries as well! Welcome Belgium, Mexico and South America!
3.) Here is the updated tentative schedule for the next few months!
May: South Carolina
June: North Carolina
July: Ohio and California
August: California
September: California, Alaska and Massachusetts
Again, this is only tentative!
I did have a family interested in taking the afghan on the Buddy Cruise in September, but I have not heard from them! If another family is going on the cruise and would like to take the afghan along, please email me at chandosjoy@gmail.com. It would be greatly appreciate!!
4.) If you are not a member of the T21 Traveling Afghan Project Group on Facebook, what are you waiting for?? We post all the pictures of the kids with the afghan there!
5.) Check out the Order an Afghan page if you would like to order an afghan for your child, a friend's child, etc.
Ok, I think that's it!
I'm sure Martin will get our Google map updated as soon as the afghan arrives at its next destination! Stay tuned!
1 comments:
CJ,
I am not a knitter, I couldn't make an afghan to save my own life, but I am a supporter of the T21 Traveling Afghan Project and all that you all are doing.
I think what you and everyone involved are doing here, is such a beautiful and amazing thing.
You are making and providing gifts of love, beautiful blankets full of love and happiness, and every time I see a picture of a child with their own afghan, or hugging the traveling afghan, my heart swells and I cry mixed tears.
They are mostly tears of happiness, but some are for the boy named Benji who was our families T21 boy for 10 years of his life and mine.
I often wonder what happened to him after the state took him from our loving foster home that we gave him for 10 whole years, who took him in next, who loved him, did they give him enough love, did they give him the same kind of love that we did?
It's been many, many years since the state took him from our family all because we loved him too much, because we wanted to adopt him and make him officially part of our family, but the pain of the day we had to say goodbye to him without being able to tell him goodbye forever, not tell him he wouldn't be coming home from school to our home that night, still haunts me. I was just a kid myself, he WAS my brother no matter what the state said, I loved him like he was my brother.
I STILL love him as my brother.
I'm sorry, but these beautiful and happy faces just make me so happy and sad all at the same time.
I miss his smiling and happy face so much, but seeing these beautiful babies makes my heart swell with love, sadness, happiness, anger, and joy. It's a mixed bag, but a bag that I will carry forever, and despite how it sounds, I am happy to carry it because of all of the love that it is in the bag. It weighs far more than any other emotion.
Keep doing what you are doing, it is truly a wonderful thing that you all are doing here.
If I ever get a bit ahead, I want to make a donation to help buy some supplies or whatever you may nned. I'll just send it by paypal whenever I can. That's a promise, I want to be a part of an afghan in some way, to make another beautiful child smile when they get it. I'm going through a lot right now, but I will send it as soon as I can.
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