February is Heart Awareness Month. This is something I did not know until last year. I found out a few weeks before Ryan was born. Something that still amazes me is that according to the American Heart Association more infants die from a congenital heart defect per year than from all childhood cancers combined, yet not many people know that much about them.
Traci and Vito Lisa are trying to change that. Their daughter, Cassidy, was born with a CHD called Tetralogy of Fallot. She is two years old and doing quite well. You can read her story here by looking under cassidylisa.
Traci and Vito recently started a Etsy jewelry store called Lucky10 to spread CHD awareness. Check out their projects here. Personally, this one is my favorite:
The Lisas have offered to give away one pendant to one lucky reader of my blog. All you have to do to enter is go to their etsy shop and come back here and comment on which two pendants are your favorite. I will close the contest on Wednesday, February 24 at 11 p.m. and will draw a random winner. Good luck!
(c) 2016 Leighann Marquiss
Comments (36)
What beautiful pieces, I love them all! My two favorite are; You are stronger than you know, and I hold your heart in mine.
Thanks for the opportunity to win these!
I love them all. I purchased one when I visited the site. My favorites are you are stronger than you know and I hold your heart in mine.
This is so awesome! My favorite is Heart Nurse..my daughter is a brand new nurse at a childrens hospital in Nashville and she would wear this with so much pride! Second favorite is I hold your heart in mine…
I just checked out the website and they are all very nice….my fave is the one saying “I hold your heart in mine”. 🙂 Good cause!!!
My favorite is I hold your heart in mine.
Melanie
I like the “You hold your heart in mine” and “You are stronger than you know”. I have a niece who has struggled with SVT her whole life. I never really realized what that meant (I was only 9 years old when she was born) what that meant until I started reading McMama’s blog. Now I know some of what my sister was going through when my niece was really young.
My daughter had HPLH and other birth defects she lived for only 17minutes.These are nice I like the one ” I hold your heart in mine”
that’s how I feel about my about my daughter Emily…I’ll always hold her in my heart.
What a great testiment of Hope and healing….as a ultrasound tech I have had to give bad news one too many times to parents of heart defects…so I really like these…My favorites are : You are stronger then you know and the blue Hope one.
Thanks for the sharing you do, I love your blog.
I like the “I hold your heart…” and the “Hope glass tile” with the blue heart. Very cool!
i like i hold your heart in mine and the hope tile. i guess i am not too original =-)
Just like a lot of other people, my fav is You are stronger than you know. I love the courage and strength that phrase gives!
These are so cool! I love them all, but my two favorites are you are stronger than you know, and I hold your heart in mine.
I love the “Hope Glass Tile” and “Strength, Courage, Wisdom”. All are beautiful! What a wonderful cause and a sweet way to raise awareness of heart defects.
Wow… can I just say that as soon as I saw the Heart Mom one I was sitting here with tears pouring down my face and then when I got tot the site I wanted to order them all! Being a heart mom I have to say that the one you featured on your post is indeed, hands down my favorite but the one that says “I hold your heart in mine” is also very dear to my heart. I think I would have to buy that second one I mentioned if we face surgery next winter like we discussed when I saw you. It totally spoke to that part of me and my mom would love it for that reason as well. Their site is wonderful and I will certainly be making some type of purchase there or asking for it for Mother’s Day! Thanks for sharing this with us.
They all are so pretty. I loved the Blue Hope Heart and the Strong black heart. It is amazing the power of one word.
My personal favs are I hold your heart in mine and Under Construction. They are all VERY beautiful!! What an inspiring business, to make people more aware of something so close to their “heart”!
Richelle
These are all great. My two favorites would be the blue ‘Hope’ and the ‘Blessed’ pendants. What a great contest!!
This is a great site. All very nice. Hold ur heart in mine, the memorial ones with names on them would be so great for a gift for one of my family members who lost there 2 year old who had multiple heart defects and leukemia. I also like the one with all the different hearts on it “heart awareness”. I guess that’s three. Well, hard to only pick two.
Lindsey
I like I hold your heart in mine and the heart mom that you showed on your blog. I think those pieces of jewelry are so great for moms like you who love and care for children with heart defects. They should make a heart aunt one too. lol!
Give Ryan a kiss for me. Tell him its from his favorite aunt. I have a lot of ground to make up after Katie was entertaining him so well on sat night.
They are all beautiful!!
I Love the Heart Friends and I hold your heart. those are my fav but The others are all nice too!
I hold your heart in Mine and the one that is blue.
What a wonderful way to spead the information. I have been “lurking” but following for a long time. I have Ryan’s button on my blog.
He just makes me smile. You can’t help but smile when you see him.
Thank you so much for sharing your life!!!!! What a Miracle Life!!!!
I love the Heart Mom tile that is posted on your entry here.
They are all really cool though!
I like the ones that say, “I hold your heart in mine” and of course the one that says, “Heart Nurse.” 🙂
Leighann, check out People magazine this week–the one w/Elin Woods on the cover. There’s a great article about a 12 year old born w/EC.
I would have to say my fav are “I hold your heart in mine” and “heart Mom”. I would definately personalize mine 🙂
This is such a great opportunity!!! THANK YOU!! My favorites are, the one you have pictured on the your blog, and the one that says “You are stronger than you know.” Thanks again!!
They are all so precious, My favorite is the blue heart “Hope”.I love what it stands for to carry hope in your heart,and encourage others we love when they are going through a difficult time.
My favorites are “You are stronger than you know” (which for the record, YOU are Leighann) and the “Strong” one which kind of looks like a heart tattoo.
Thanks for sharing the site with us. I love all of them, but my favorites are “Strength, Courage, Wisdom” and “I hold your heart in mine.” They both speak to what I feel when I take care of our precious babies, children and adults in the CICU. Will definitely have to go back and order one!
I’m a lurking reader so this gave me a good opportunity to comment:
1. I LOVE the one that says “Blessed” in a read heart and also love the black/white one with a heart saying “strong” under it.
2. The new look of your blog is awesome!
Blessings,
Sarah
Can I only pick 2? They are all so beautiful and inspiring! I think my favorite ones are the ‘you are stronger than you know’ and the ‘strength. courage. wisdom.’ one. In a close 3rd place (because I like it too =) ) is the ‘hope’ in the blue heart. id have to say that the first 2 I listed are my favorite ones though.
We have two kiddos who have had open heart surgeries due to CHD (one has had two open heart surgeries) so I think these are extra special! I love the “I hold your heart in mine” and “Blessed” the best (but they are all adorable!).
I absolutely love the Under Construction one, hands-down favourite… the CHD awareness with many little hearts all different colours is nice too. I like the symbolism – it’s about many hearts, not just any individual one or any individual child (precious though they are, of course).
I like the “hope” one and the “I hold your heart in mine” one. I have been encouraged as I have followed your journey and I pray often for your sweet family. Thanks for sharing with us!
I really like I Hold your Hear In Mine and You’re stronger than you think…..They’re so pretty!
They are so pretty. I really love the Hope one in the blue heart and the Heart Mom. If I won they would not be for me but the Hope one would be for a friend whose daughter is now in heaven and her name is Hope or the Heart Mom would be for a Mom at our school whose son Aidan died of CHD at 8 months old. Thank you for doing this! Patti