{"id":1290,"date":"2009-03-12T19:09:08","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T00:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2009-03-13T07:42:38","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T12:42:38","slug":"exciting-newsthe-2009-heart-ball-is-quickly-approaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=1290","title":{"rendered":"Exciting News…The 2009 Heart Ball is quickly approaching!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just thought I’d pass along this email from Mel.\u00a0 He sent it out to his entire address book, which happens to be pretty extensive!\u00a0 We are so excited about the 2009 Pee Dee Heart Ball and are hoping for a huge success!\u00a0 Our little sweetheart even gets to make an appearance that night!\u00a0 The American Heart Association PR piece (featuring Mary Clare) that I mentioned in an earlier post will be debuted as well!\u00a0 Call or email me if you are interested in attending!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dear friends & family,<\/span><\/p>\n

I wanted to take a moment and bring you up to speed on what we\u2019ve been up to these last few months.\u00a0 Both Kerri and the girls are doing well and ready to get to the summer as fast as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n

McCanless is now five and has recently been visited by the tooth fairy for the first time.\u00a0 I might add that the tooth fairy didn\u2019t take into account that daddy would be cleaning up fairy dust for several days after her visit.\u00a0 She has started sleeping in her own bed, and has become a dancing-with-the-stars junkie!\u00a0 I have been having nightmarish premonitions lately about boys and dating in the too-near distant future.<\/span><\/p>\n

Many of you are aware that our youngest daughter, Mary Clare, was diagnosed with hypo plastic left heart syndrome and has recovered well from her second surgery.\u00a0 Basically she was born without one of the normal four chambers of her heart.\u00a0 Since then they have combined the other two leaving her what we call \u201cThe biggest half-a-heart.\u201d Kerri has chronicled our girl\u2019s life on her blog, www.babypennington.com, which is now boasting close to 500 readers from across the country.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kerri is still teaching at Thomas Hart Academy and spends the rest of her free time playing with the girls and putting up with me.\u00a0 She has done an amazing job helping to mold those two little minds.\u00a0 Kerri has been a dear to put up with my many ideas and businesses \u2013 late nights, and traveling.\u00a0 She\u2019s made her place in the heart world by becoming an ear for other troubled mothers dealing with heart issues.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have recently volunteered to co-chair the American Heart Association Annual Heart Ball.\u00a0 We\u2019ve decided to combine the ball this year with the Florence Ball.\u00a0 I have attached a copy of the article that is running in the paper next week (mostly for my mother to have something to be proud of me)\u00a0 I\u2019m getting ready to buy a letterpress made in 1905 and start two new companies \u2013 but I\u2019ll save that story for a later time.<\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019ve been through hell and made it out the other side these last 24 months.\u00a0 Kerri is the pillar of strength we all leaned on to get by.\u00a0 We both have a firm belief that we owe a lot to our family, our friends, and those involved with Mary Clare.<\/span><\/p>\n


\nThis year we will be attending the Pee Dee Heart Ball to say thanks to those that choose to continue to support our efforts to improve lives and fund research.<\/span><\/p>\n

I hope that you will decide to bring your date to a wonderful evening of dining, dancing, and social networking.\u00a0 It would mean the world to our family to have you attend.\u00a0 If you let me know you\u2019ll attend early enough, we would love to have you over prior to the event for cocktails, and we are arranging to have limo service to the event and home again.\u00a0 This event sells out very quickly each year due to the a-list of people that attend each year.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have asked our friends at the Heart Association to allow me to hold a few tickets back for friends and family.\u00a0 They aren\u2019t tickets actually, they\u2019re reservations, and they can be made by calling (843) 665-0985 or by email me. Please let me know as soon as you are able about your plans to attend.\u00a0 We\u2019re going to have a time to remember \u2013 this I can promise you.<\/span><\/p>\n

Please make sure to check in on the girl\u2019s website from time to time.\u00a0 Kerri does a better job of posting than I do on my blog www.melpennington.com .\u00a0 We thank you again for your continued prayers and friendship.\u00a0 I hope to see you each in person in the very near future.<\/span><\/p>\n

With fondest regards,
\nMel<\/span><\/p>\n

PS: Feel free to forward this email along to other friends that I may have missed, blog about it, or help spread the word!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just thought I’d pass along this email from Mel.\u00a0 He sent it out to his entire address book, which happens to be pretty extensive!\u00a0 We are so excited about the 2009 Pee Dee Heart Ball and are hoping for a huge success!\u00a0 Our little sweetheart even gets to make an appearance that night!\u00a0 The American […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1296,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions\/1296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}