It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas….

(Source: zombify)

Shawn writes:

Can we at least recover from our Halloween candy comas?

fuckyeahhope:

My name is Kelsey, and I run fuckyeahhope, or at least I used to before I stopped posting here. My personal blog is the-vashtanerada; some of you follow me on there.

If you could do me a favor, I would appreciate it. I was born with a heart condition called Tetralogy of Fallot, and I had open heart surgery when I was fifteen months old. I had a valve missing, and they reconstructed one for me. Now, I’m an adult, and my heart has grown, but the valve has not. I am basically going into congestive heart failure. I have no money because I cannot work, I’ve had to quit college because of this, and every insurance company I’ve applied to has turned me down because of my pre-existing conditions.

If you could read my story and pass it on, I would be incredibly grateful. The link is below. If you have questions, contact me on my personal blog (I also have an in-depth blog posted there, accessible on the sidebar of my Tumblr).

Thank you.

http://www.giveforward.com/savekelseysheart

Oh… hello Monday.

Shawn writes:

Finally finished these in time for Christmas.  Rebecca and I plan to give them to our kids as gifts then hang them in our front foyer.

I think the best part of the pics are the little bits of reality within each of them.  For instance, Rebecca and I wear those Supergirl and Superman tees, our oldest covets his Superboy shirt, our second oldest actually owns a cloak while our two youngest dressed like Green Lantern and Captain America for Halloween.

All in all our children are pretty amazing and I wanted to illustrate that in a medium we all appreciate :)  Comics and superheroes and sci-fi flicks and video games… it’s a language we speak that brings us closer as a family.