Compassionate Friends

Don't forget to LIGHT your candles THIS SUNDAY!



Worldwide Candle Lighting:
The Compassionate Friends Worldwide Candle Lighting®, held annually the second Sunday in December, this year December 14, unites family and friends around the globe as they light candles for one hour to honor and remember children who have died at any age from any cause. As candles are lit at 7 p.m. local time, creating a virtual wave of light, hundreds of thousands of persons commemorate and honor the memories of children in a way that transcends all ethnic, cultural, religious, and political boundaries.

Now believed to be the largest mass candle lighting on the globe, the Worldwide Candle Lighting, a gift from TCF to the bereavement community, creates a virtual 24-hour wave of light as it moves from time zone to time zone. Hundreds of formal candle lighting events are held and thousands of informal candle lightings are conducted in homes as families gather in quiet remembrance of children who have died, but will never be forgotten.

The Worldwide Candle Lighting started in the United States in 1997 as a small Internet observance but has since swelled in numbers as word has spread throughout the world of the remembrance.


TTTS World Awareness Day:

THANKS to those of you that spread the word last week for the first annual TTTS Awareness Day. This day was an international mobilization effort created by The Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome Foundation to increase awareness of the #1 problem facing multiples. TTTS is a disease of the placenta that effects identical twin preganancies. We lost our Angel Baby Christopher to TTTS. IF you know of an expecting mom of twins (or other multiples) PLEASE let them know about TTTS and it's foundation in order to become better educated.
http://www.tttsfoundation.org/