Update :)

Hi, sorry its been a while since i wrote in our blog but we have been busy trying to figure things out. Its been a long time since we have received any donations but that's okay we are saving as much as we can as fast as we can and as of right now we have $4,582.13. We had to find a new mortgage broker as our previous one what not very nice. So the new mortgage broker said for us to get $10,000.00 in the bank and she would see if any bank is willing to give us a mortgage and they we will go from there. Also we might have someone that is willing to co-sign for us and if that is the case all we will need is $10,000.00 in the bank but hopefully we will be able to get a mortgage on our own. Its getting harder and harder getting Alex in and out of his crib, so the sooner the better to get in to a house. When we do get into a house we be getting a costume bed built and donated to us, it will be amazing and so much easier :)

Earnings so far!

So far we have had a total of $1010.00 worth of donations and a total of $3050.00 of money we saved and from things we sold and the bottle drive which yielded $200.40. That is a compete total of $4060.00!!!!!! We are so grateful for the donations that we have received so far we.

No matter how long it take for us to raise money for our down payment, it will only ever be used for that. The donation pot will stay in saving earning interest until we need it. I have written down all who donated and when we finally get into our dream home we will be sending all of you a small token of our application.

With love, Miranda Tataryn

Done 30 day challenge

So I'm all done doing the 30 day challenge. I hope you all liked it. I never got any feed back on what you all would like me to write about so i wont be posting on here everyday anymore. but i will be posting at least once a week and i will keep you all posted on how we are doing with raising money. We have been very busy lately, but that how it goes with us.

With love Miranda Tataryn

Day 30 - A picture that makes me laugh

Alex with his Easter hat on. He was not happy and really wanted it off  :)

Day 29 - A picture of Miranda with Jaymee

Jaymee being a silly baby :)

Day 28 - A picture of Mike with Alex

Awwwww Alex and daddy on Alex's first Halloween

Day 27 - A picture of Alex and Jaymee

Aren't they cute!

Day 26 - A picture of something that means a lot to you

Our Hospital :)  they are great there

Day 25 - A video of Alex's favorite toy

Alex is playing with his ducks :)

Day 24 - A picture of one of the ways you are raising money

change cans :) hopefully they help

Money raised so far!!!

So far we have raised $2944.72 thank you so much for everyone's help this far but we have a ways to go. Any help is greatly appreciated we are still collecting empty's if anyone wants to donate that way, also we still have pay pal on our blog and you can email money transfer to paperwings_84@hotmail.com or tatarynfamilyfoundation@hotmail.ca or you can mail your donations to our home address. Any and all help is greatly appreciated. If anyone wants to raise some donation for us that would be awesome as it is just Mike and I raising money at this point. Thank you all so much!

With love Miranda Tataryn

Day 23 - A picture of Alex's favorite thing

His suckie :)

Day 22 - A picture of Jaymee as a newborn

This is Jaymee a few hours old :)

Day 21 - A picture of Alex as a newborn

Alex was a few days old here

Day 20 - A picture that can always make you smile

Alex watching Four Square in the stroller and being so happy. Alex hates shopping but now he is happy as can be and we all get to enjoy going out :)

Day 19 - A picture of Alex and Jaymee's favorite movie

Alex and Jaymee love this show! It makes the happy and us too :)

Day 18 - A picture of something sweet

Alex and dad at my family reunion, look at Alex he's so tiny

Day 17 - A picture of Jaymee's favorite thing

Her bear, she bites his nose and shakes him around, laughs at him and talks to him. Best bear ever!

Day 16 - A picture of someone who inspires you

My husband, Mike. He works so hard to take care of us and never complains about the long hours and hard work.

Day 15 - A picture of something you want to do before you die

I would love to skydive!

Day 14 - A picture of someone you could never imagine your life without

My Family!!!

Day 13 - A picture of your pets

So this is Gurdy(top), Maggie(dog), and Martha (in the Pepsi box), Oscar(folded ears):)

Day 12 - A picture of something you love

Gardening!!!!!!! It's a great way to relax and its so much fun.

Bottle Drive

So far we have raised $200.40 on our bottle drive account!!!!!!!! We are still collecting empty's if you would like us to pick them up, just let us know. Thank you so much for everyone's help.

Day 11 - A video of something you hate

BEEPING FEEDING PUMPS!!!!!!! Worst sound in the whole world

Day 10 - A picture of your way of relaxing

I absolutely love watching movies and i have tons to choose from :)

Day 9 - A picture of the person who has got you through the most

My absolutely amazing husband, who is the most supportive and loving father and husband anyone could ask for. Mike and I had been together for about 2 years and his mom said that she was surprised that we were still together. Statistics say 85-90% of parents with disabled children divorce within the first 2 years. Well all i have to say to that is Mike and i have been together for 7 and a half years and we are still going strong and we will be together for the rest of our lives!!!!!!! I love you Mike.

Day 8 - A picture of Alex's room

So this is Alex's room. His room is 8' X 8.5' and filled with Cars decor and nic nacks from school and friends.

Day 7 - A picture of Jaymee's room

So this is Jaymee's room. Her room is 6' X 8.5' and its filled to the brim with pink clothes, my little pony's and baby princesses

Day 6 - A picture of a person you'd love to trade places with for a day

We would give anything to know how Alex and Jaymee feel and Think. It would help us so much. We would be able to figure out whats wrong and why they scream so much and what we could do to make their live so much more happy and easy going! We sure love our kids but man just to know a little bit more would make everything so much easier!!!

What we have raised so far!!!!!

So far our donations are up to $793!!!!! We will be cashing in our account at the bottle depot on the 17th of Feb. We are still in need of more donations if you would like to help in anyway we would be greatly appreciative. Here are some ways you can help us out. You can do a bottle drive for us or collect loose change, ask your friends and family to donate empty's or loose change. Or even donate things you dont want anymore and we can sell them on Facebook or Kijiji. We have raised $150 of the $793 by selling a washer and dryer that were donated!!! Thank you for everyone's help so far!!!!

With love Miranda Tataryn

Day 5 - A picture of your favorite memory

♥♥♥Mine and Mike's first date ♥ ♥ ♥

I asked Mike on a date and he said yes, i told him that he better not stand me up. Guess who was late, me. LOL he almost left where we were meeting but i showed up in the nick of time, i was talking to my mom and telling her about the cute boy that i had a date with :) We went to the fair and spent the day together it was great. 2 weeks later we were pregnant with Alex, when people say it only takes once they aren't kidding! We have been together since our first date and now we have been together for 7 years and still going strong!

Day 4 - A picture of your night

Making formula...never ends lol

So Alex and Jaymee have G-tubes, so they are on a strict liquid diet. I have to make formula for them every night. We are going to be making formula for the rest of our lives. Alex and Jaymee are on a very special diet, the formula they are on is called Neocate and the proteins in it have been broken down so they can digest them. Both kids have a hard time tolerating proteins. 

Day 3 - A picture of the cast from your favorite show

CSI!!!! I love crime shows, they are like puzzles :)

Day 2 - A picture of your one obsession

NOTE PADS!!! lol i have to write everything down or else i have a heck of a time remembering things. You should see my calender lol

Day 1: A picture of yourself with fifteen facts

1. My heart breaks every day knowing i wont be able to take care of Alex and Jaymee forever
2. Just writing that made me cry
3. My favorite thing to do is watch movies
4. Mike is my everything
5. My kids are my whole world
6. I cry every time i think about not being able to having more kids
7. I absolutely hate the sound of beeping feeding pumps
8. I have a bad back
9. Jaymee's smile always makes me feel better
10. I'm going to die when my mom moves
11. I hate spiders
12. I have the best dog ever
13. Some days i feel like an old lady
14. Halloween is my favorite holiday
15. I miss my best friend everyday

30 day challenge

I was thinking of how i can make it so everyone can get to know us better and i thought of this. You know on Facebook how people start, a picture a day or 30 day challenge well im going to do that here. So every day im going to post a picture and write about it. Here are the 30 day things im going to use:

 Day 01 - A picture of yourself with fifteen facts
Day 02 - A picture of your one obsession
Day 03 - A picture of the cast from your favorite show
Day 04 - A picture of your night
Day 05 - A picture of your favorite memory
Day 06 - A picture of a person you'd love to trade places with for a day
Day 07 - A picture of Jaymee's room
Day 08 - A picture of Alex's room
Day 09 - A picture of the person who has got you through the most
Day 10 - A picture of your way of relaxing
Day 11 - A video of something you hate
Day 12 - A picture of something you love
Day 13 - A picture of your pets
Day 14 - A picture of someone you could never imagine your life without
Day 15 - A picture of something you want to do before you die
Day 16 - A picture of someone who inspires you
Day 17 - A picture of Jaymee's favorite thing
Day 18 - A picture of something sweet
Day 19 - A picture of Alex and Jaymee's favorite movie
Day 20 - A picture that can always make you smile
Day 21 - A picture of Alex as a newborn
Day 22 - A picture of Jaymee as a newborn
Day 23 - A picture of Alex's favorite thing
Day 24 - A picture of one of the ways you are raising money
Day 25 - A video of Alex's favorite toy
Day 26 - A picture of something that means a lot to you
Day 27 - A picture of Alex and Jaymee
Day 28 - A picture of Mike with Alex
Day 29 - A picture of Miranda with Jaymee
Day 30 - A picture that makes me laugh

Bottle drive

So we are doing a bottle drive this weekend and we have tons of offers to donate their empty's, everyone is so great. We are also having people from other towns collecting their empty's and cashing them in and donating the proceeds to our cause! We always give and give and it was feeling like no one cared but the past few weeks have really lifted our spirits. It's go great to feel appreciated. If any one is wanting to donate their earning from their bottles you can email money transfer you donation to paperwings_84@hotmail.com or tatarynfamilyfoundation@hotmail.ca or through the pay pal button on my blog. Again thank you so much for everyone's help, we will reach our goal!!!!!!!!!!!

With love Miranda Tataryn

Blogging everyday

I want to be able to write in my blog every day and some times its hard to think of what i want to talk about. So I'm asking everyone that if you have any questions you can comment on my blog or email your questions and i can answer them in my blog.

I never thought that i would  be a blogger lol im not the type of person to put my self out there like this but you know what I'm actually enjoying it and i hope you are too. I dont get any feed back on what everyone thinks so im just kinda guessing and hoping you all like it. Hope to hear from you all very soon.

With love Miranda Tataryn

So far we have raised

So far we have raised $436.00 Thank you so much to those who have helped this far. We are still looking for donations, any little bit helps $5, $10 or even the change you have lying around the house. If you have pay pal you can make a donation by clicking the pay pal button on the right side of my blog, you can also email money transfer to paperwings_84@hotmail.com or tatarynfamilyfoundation@hotmail.ca or if you would like to mail your donation we can email you our mailing address. Thank you so much to all who have helped this far, to those who are going to and to those who want to but can't.

With love Miranda Tataryn

Jaymee giggles VIDEO

Jaymee giggles, cutest thing ever!

It must be hard!?

I remember growing up and people asking me what i wanted to be when i grew up and my answer was always the same, to be a mom. But the one thing i never imagined was the chance that i would be a mom to a disabled child, let alone two. For a long time it was very sad for us to know the things that we would never get to do with our kids but you know something, we still get to do those things it just takes longer. It's almost more exciting for us when they reach one of their own milestones, especially when we have been working so hard with them on one. Like with Alex it took years to get him to sit on his own and when he did it was the most amazing thing, also with Jaymee when it took her a year and a half to roll over. Its days like that that lift our spirits like you can't imagine. I was having a sad day a few year back and my mom told me something, she said that when i was little that i used to say that i was going to adopt a baby of every race and you know i still want to do that but she also said that if things turned out differently and i was never able to have kids and we went to adopt a kid that the one i would have pick would have been the one with a disability because i knew i could take care of that kid and all i wanted to do it make that child's life the most amazing it could ever be! She's right you know, i would have pick the kid that needed me the most and the one that most would have walked right past. I love being a mom!

With Love: Miranda Tataryn

Life is very different

If you are a parent that has disabled children, life is very different than one with "normal" kids. No matter who you are you still love them the same. People ask me all the time, " it must be so hard, to take care of special kids" and i always tell them no harder than taking care of a normal kid, its just different. The response to that is " How can it not be harder" and i say our first child was disabled and we had to learn to take care of him, if we had had a normal child first and then our second was disabled then ya i would probably say its harder, because we learned on a normal baby. but we didn't know any different when Alex was born. Alex was teaching us to take care of him just like any other child would, normal or not. We also had to learn to take care of Jaymee yes her and Alex were a lot a like, as in their disability, but there was so much more we had to learn to take care of her as well. We may have to carry them for the rest of your lives, change their diapers and never have them grow up mentally but we still love them, cherish them and care for them. The hard part is knowing that they will never be a hockey star or preform ballet. Or even the little things most people would take for granted, like having to chase your kid down the street because they think its funny or having them arguing with you about doing the dishes.

with love: Miranda Tataryn

Asking for help

I never thought that i would ever have to ask for money to help us. but look where we are now, asking. I have had a lot of people including a Facebook group saying that because i wont give them my kids personal information, it makes us a scam. Well i can understand why they would think that but I'm not just going to hand over my kids personal information to a group of people that i dont know. It may be wrong of me but i don't think i would be doing my job as a mom if i did that. As far as I'm concerned if i did i wouldn't be protecting my kids. I know that in a lot of peoples minds there are worse off people out there such as living on the streets or in their cars and have no money for food or any home at all. If you feel that way donate to them they need it more than i do, but for the people that want to help my kids, great! We will gladly accept the help but i dont want money from the poor/homeless or others that need it more. I'm not telling anyone they have to donate. All im asking is if you feel you want to help us, we are here. I also want to make it clear no matter how much we raise or how long it takes, it will only ever be used for our down payment. I would like to thank all of our friends/family/strangers for the uplifting and positive notes and messages. It makes all of the stuff the skeptics are saying a little less harsh.

With love: Miranda Tataryn

Alex's first time in a walker VIDEO

Alex's first time in a walker, as you can see there is no space for him to turn around and really can only walk up and down the hallway and his new walker barley fits down the hallway. The clicking sound is the locks on his walker. Annoying yes lol but it makes it safer. for some reason the sound isn't lined up with the video, sorry.



With love: Miranda Tataryn

WE DO DESERVE IT!

We have been getting a lot of flack about us not being real. well i don't know what else to say, but we are. We really do need help, my kids really are disabled and our current home is not working for my kids or my husband and i. Alex and Jaymee are the most wonderful kids and all we want is to make it so we can care for them the rest of their lives, if we don't get a bigger and better house it all comes down to this. We would have to put our babies into a full time care home. Well i DON'T want to give my babies away!! Think of it this way if you were a parent and you did all you could to care for your kids for 6 years, try and try and try and one day someone says well your not good enough and we are taking your baby! but wait worse than that, they say you have to be the one to walk your baby in to a full time care home and leave him there, then walk out the door. Well as far as im concerned is THAT'S NOT OKAY, and im going to keep trying and im never going to stop. Asking for help is very hard for me, and I'm sorry i know there are people out there that do scam, cheat and lie to get money. But that's not us. No one will ever completely understand what we going through as parents with disabled children, you know what my husband and i will never be grandparents, my husband will never be able to walk his daughter down the isle at her wedding because she will never get married. We will never hear I love you or mommy or daddy most of you will never understand how painful it is and that i cry everyday thinking that no matter how hard we try it really isn't going to be enough. But im still going to keep trying no matter how many people say we are lieing or just don't deserve it. Well you know what WE DO DESERVE IT!


With love: Miranda Tataryn

A huge of an impact

 I wish a could explain better how huge of an impact a new home would be for our babies but here is a few very small examples: Alex can't walk in his walker, through our kitchen and turn around there is so little space. We have to pull Alex up stairs in his wheelchair just to get him into the house. Then we have to carry Alex and Jaymee to get them into their bedrooms and to the bathroom because our hallway to too narrow to fit wheelchairs through it. We did the math and if 5500 people donated $10 each we would have our down payment. I'm begging and pleading from the bottom of our hearts, please help us. Once we have reached our goal we will be sending out a thank gift to everyone who donated.

The things that you do for yourself, die with you.....the things that you do for others , mark your place in the world.

- Unknown


With love: Miranda Tataryn

Pictures

 Jaymee after her first hip, knee and foot surgery

Alex in his walker


With love: Miranda Tataryn

Donations so far

We want to start off with thanking everyone for their thoughts and prayers and also to those who have donated thus far. We have a total of $260 of donations so far. I will be keeping everyone updated on everything. If you have any questions don't hesitate to ask :)


With love: Miranda Tataryn

Here's our story:

Here's our story:  My name is Miranda Tataryn my husbands name is Mike and our children's names are Alex and Jaymee. Alex is 6 and has Severe global development delay with profound communication impairment with spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy with hyper-kinetic movement... disorder and Jaymee is 2 and has Severe global development delay with profound communication impairment with spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy with hyper-kinetic movement disorder and severe orthopedic deformities. Alex and Jaymee are both severely disabled. My husband and I were perfectly healthy at both pregnancies but still something went wrong. All the doctors and specialists still to this day don't know what went wrong. We are still taking every effort to find out what went wrong but everything takes so much time. My husband works so hard to take care of us but equipment for disabled persons is so expensive , it makes it that much harder. We live in a trailer and it was a good starter home but now it is becoming very hard to take care of our children's needs. The trailer just isn't working. Alex has a walker and other equipment that he needs on a daily basis but cannot use because of lack of space. The same goes for Jaymee. We can apply for a grant for home renovations to put in lift systems to aid in bathing, ramps and structural support but in the long run we still wont be able to give our children all the freedom and enjoyment out of life, where are now is just to small. In order to get into a forever home that will make our kids lives better (and save our body's from lifting the kids and their equipment, so our body's will last so we can care for them for the rest of our lives) we need a down payment of $55,000 and can not come up with the money on our own. So please, we are looking for donations any little bit will help us meet our goal even $5 or $10 donations help. We have a donate button at the top of our blog also we will be accepting cheques and if you would like to mail them i can give you our mailing address and you can also email money transfer to paperwings_84@hotmail.com also if you have any questions you can email me at the same email address. Thank you all from the bottom of our hearts and more ♥

With love: Mike, Miranda, Alex and Jaymee Tataryn