1 Week Away!!

We are only 1 week away from the 2023 MS Challenge Walk!  The 3 of us are filled with anticipation, excitement and of course a little fear!  


You can plan and prepare all you want, but until you start taking those steps you always have some reservations.  For me (Christa) I ask myself what I was thinking to sign up for this again?  But then this week comes the week of August 29-September 6th, and it is completely clear to me WHY!  This week is hard, it will always be hard, no matter how many years pass.  But as both mom and granny would have said, life goes on.  It doesn't stop and we have to somehow...figure out how to continue living in it. 

 So, for me this event gives us hope and pride.  Hope that one day there will be a cure for MS and pride in knowing that we are doing something to help!!



So once again we are doing this thing!  If you would like to make a donation, click the link below.  If you would like to keep updated on our progress, follow Lemonade for Linda (we promise to keep you all posted throughout the event) and lastly pray we can make it through another one of these!  


Thank you so much for all the love and support!  All of it:
Helping with the July 4th sale
All the donations of items
Buying raffle tickets 
All those who helped sell raffle tickets 
Traditional donations
Encouraging words and walking partners 
The list goes on and on, thank you all so very much!

https://mssociety.donordrive.com/team/32124



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