Holiday Gift Drive for the Alta Bates Summit Medical Center NICU 2010

In 2008, we spent the holidays at the Alta Bates NICU with our beautiful boy Loki Sky. We were surrounded by the love of our family, friends and wonderful primary nurses. Regardless, those days were beyond challenging.

In 2009, we were able to handout 56 gift bags, approximately $1200 in gift cards for those in economically difficult circumstances, and 5 massage certificates at the Alta Bates NICU. We were only able to this with an incredible number of very generous donations from many people. We celebrated the Holidays as we had never done before.

We are still inspired!! In 2010 we want to do it again. Our goal is to collect enough money to buy a gift for each baby at the Alta Bates NICU. We still have time, but one can never start too early. We need your help!

If you wish to support a family in the NICU during the holidays in 2010, you can donate via Paypal. Note that you do not need a Paypal account, only a credit card:

Or, please send a check to K. Sprenger, 405 Eastview Dr., Bedford, IN 47421. In the memo please write Loki Sky Holiday Gift Drive and Fund.

We honor and thank everyone who contributes. Please let us if you do not wish to be publicly acknowledged.

Blog changes

I've changed a couple things on the blog. Most obvious is the new design. The duck theme started when Kyra gave us a small little music box. It's song, in Dutch, is "One little, two little, three little duckies," and the box has duckies on it. We played the box through Mom's tummy while he was in there, I played it for him just after he came out, and we play it for him through the warm box. From there, his name sign and growth chart got ducks. Now his blog.

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