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| MaryJane |
Posted - Nov 29 2006 : 11:40:56 AM
To our dear farmgirl chapter and forum members, a little someone needs your help. Eight-year-old Mahri, who “modeled” for us in the last two issues of our magazine, has lost her mother, former MaryJanesFarm employee Stefanie Crawford. Stefanie lost control of her car when she hit a patch of black ice last Saturday near the small town of Colfax. A single mom, she was traveling with Mahri and the latest addition to her family, another little girl, two-month old Meadow.
Meadow is still in critical condition and struggling to survive but Mahri’s prognosis is good. With two broken legs and a bruised lung, Mahri’s body will eventually heal even though it took paramedics two hours to pry her from the wreckage. She knows her mother didn’t make it.
We’re hoping to deliver lots of cards to Mahri every day until Christmas. Please consider adding her to your Christmas list this year. She’s a voracious reader so some age appropriate books would be great. Cards and more cards--homemade like our forum mail-art or playful store-bought. Dolls and doll things, playful Christmas ornaments … whatever you think would delight and distract her. We want her to feel immensely loved and cared for, so much so that total strangers are willing to take her into their hearts.
Mahri has lost the kind of mother that keeps motherhood on a pedestal. It’s almost as if Stefanie knew her time with Mahri would be short. She was a fiercely joyful, playful, adoring mother 100% of the time. Mahri always came first. She was Stefanie’s everything and vice versa.
 
Stefanie and Julie Bell hosting our 2004 Christmas party.
Please consider dropping Mahri a card or a bit of gift in care of MaryJanesFarm at PO Box 8691, Moscow, ID 83843
Stefanie comes as a rag doll to our Halloween party.
MaryJane |
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| girl_friday |
Posted - Nov 30 2006 : 09:20:36 AM
My daughter Elizabeth has asked me to post the following in her behalf.
Hello everyone,
I have actually been staying up here in Spokane sitting with Mahri and checking in on Meadow occasionally. Mahri is doing great, she just started drinking liquids and juices Tuesday and tried some soft foods Wednesday as well.
Originally they though she had broken both legs, but she shattered her right femur, the other leg was in pain from her multiple pelvic fractures. She also has a broken right clavicle and she does have a bruised lung. With everything going on she is doing amazing! Books would be a wonderful gift for Mahri. She loves to read. I bought her 7 books Tuesday and within 30 min she read 3 of them to her dad and me! She is an excellent reader,a bit more advanced than her actual read age. Right now she said she'd really like Christmas books, Cabbage Patch Kids books, Barbie/Princess books, or any other books that have a decent amount of reading with pictures and is kind of light so she can hold them with her very sore and weak arms.
Thank you everyone for keeping her in your prayers and sending her cards and gifts during this very scary and stressful time for her!
Elizabeth
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| Libbie |
Posted - Nov 29 2006 : 10:50:10 PM
Pamela - here's the address - it's in the post above from MaryJane, nestled in between a couple of photos: MaryJanesFarm at 1000 Wild Iris Lane, Moscow, ID 83843.
XOXO, Libbie
"Nothing is worth more than this day." - Goethe |
| Photobugs |
Posted - Nov 29 2006 : 10:20:29 PM
Be happy to send something along to help ease the pain for this little angel. I do not see an address...am I missing it somewhere?
Pamela
"I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!" |
| abbasgurl |
Posted - Nov 29 2006 : 4:03:02 PM
Just heartbreaking. I've copied the address to send a bit of love to this little one.
Rhonda
I'm a one girl revolution. |
| farmgrlchick |
Posted - Nov 29 2006 : 2:23:41 PM
Oh my so sad! My mind is zooming with ideas for this little sweetpea. I am so thankful you posted this. She is blessed to have all those at the farm.
Farmgirl Blessings,
Theresa
http://theresaslavenderbox.blogspot.com/ |
| junebug |
Posted - Nov 29 2006 : 11:46:48 AM
Oh Mary Jane, such a sad story and that poor little girl, it just breaks my heart! But rest assure that we will send those cards and such to Mahri with love and hope. I'll be getting something out to her early next week, thanks for letting us know and prayers will be sent too.
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