Tami

Hello All Dear E-mail Friends,

This fall my children and I are walking in the Alzheimer's Memory
Walk in Honor of my Grandfather (their Great-Grandfather).
Why are we doing this? Our dear papa has Alzheimer's (has had it for
a number of years), and we have learned first hand just how de-
moralizing, de-meaning and horrible, horrible this disease is!!

Will your children remember you? Will they remember all the fun
things you did together? If your parent (s) gets this disease they
may not! My Grandfather was an awesome man! (Still is) I love him so
dearly, he taught me so many things! He is still teaching me,
teaching me patience, more love than I ever thought I would feel, and
he taught me to fish : )

I am sending this to all on my e-mail list, so if your are not close
enough to walk, then maybe you will send a donation, it's money to
find a cure! If you are close consider walking with us, send me an
email and I will give you send more info! If you wish to donate you
can send a check to :

KCE Academy
259 Mt. Auburn
Dunkirk, IN
47336

Please make all checks out to Alzheimer's Association and date it for
Sept. 1 2003

I thank you all so kindly and wish upon wish that you may never
suffer this disease with any one you know and love!

Tami Labig-Duquette
P.s. Please let me know either way what you do, It's ok not to
donate, knowing we have you wishes and luck is GREAT!

"Time is a versatile performer. It Flies, marches on, heals all
wounds, runs out and will tell"
~Franklin P. Jones

Janet Hamlin

Good luck on your walk! I know first hand how doing a walk and raising
money for a worthy cause makes you feel. In the past year I've raised $9000
for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Once I crossed that first finish line,
my life was forever changed, and I went on to do two more events. Have fun!

Check my website for pics of our event!

http://jefhdvm.pledgepage.org

Janet, mom to Caroline, 8.5, and Thomas, 4.5, leukemia survivor, now 10
weeks off chemo!!

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Just thought it was interesting - and gratifying that an article could
really make such a difference in a kid's life. Our park day group is
pretty much made up of unschoolers and a few relaxed homeschoolers.
This is one of the founding families - even though they've never been
close to being unschoolers, they have always hung out with unschoolers.
So, interesting to me that they've decided to do it after many many
years of them doing curriculum while the rest of us unschooled.

-pam




****Thanks for sharing Pam,

You just never know what will happen. My two youngest kids were along with
me at the Folk Dance Center for years. Donika became an involved dancer, and
is now majoring in dance. But that wasn't my point :-). One woman there
knew us, and years later, she informed me that when her granddaughter had been
born, she had a long talk with her daughter, and they decided the g'daughter
should be homeschooled because the woman was so impressed with my kids. I was
blown away because we really hadn't had much, if any, discussion on the
subject, and we weren't close friends or anything like that.

How wonderful that you saw the result of the article - it was so helpful to
show direction to that family - taking them just where they wanted to go!!

Connie
_www.homeschoolingreflections.com_ (http://www.homeschoolingreflections.com)


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