Heart Warming Phone Call

The background:
So.....as I mentioned earlier we just moved into a new house after selling our old house. During this process we've been working with a professional home stager/interior designer named Angie. She helped select colors, stains, and window treatments for our new house. We've met in person for a total of about 4 hours max. The last time she came about two weeks ago we had Aubrey(2 yrs; del+) and Molly (9 months) with us. This was the first time she met our kids.

The girls were loving crawling around the open space with newly laid carpet while we were asking her advice for window treatments. I was also asking alot of questions about what fun themes or color palettes we could do for both of the girls' rooms. During this visit she asked about the dutch door installed for Aubrey's room. This lead into our explanation of AS and Aubrey's diagnosis story. We then went back to talking about drapes vs blinds vs Roman shades and that was that.

Fast Forward to today:
Angie called and wanted to offer her services and that of her designer and carpenter friends to "do" Aubrey's room for free!! She said she was so moved by meeting Aubrey and hearing us talk that night and then by fate she was contacted for sponsorship for the first AS Walk in Omaha, NE only a couple of days after meeting Aubrey.

Melissa Yost is the chair for the Omaha walk and had contacted her at a local business to support the cause. Her niece is Delaney, our 7 year old hero with Angelman Syndrome that also lives in the Omaha area!! Angie began talking with Melissa and asking her more questions about AS and the Walk and Aubrey. It was at that point that she decided that she'd donate a gift certificate as a door prize for the Walk - but wanted to do even more for Aubrey.

So she contacted me with her idea and wanted to know if we'd be open to it and what ideas we had. I was so blown away!!

She had already contacted an artist that she's worked with in the past to do some mural work if we wanted something like that. She thought she'd want to include the AS quote " I may not speak, but I have much to say!" somewhere in the design.

Again - - it is so kind of her, a relative stranger to offer to do such a nice thing!! Wow - still in awe!!

I'll keep you posted - - and if you have any ideas for design - - send them my way!!