What do you get when you combine Loralee with:

One huge and awesome corporation

Eleventyhundered practice falls

Fifteen crew members

Fourteen hours of filming

Three dogs

Two pies

Two cameras

One gorgeous apron

One piece of eye-catching Lisa Leonard jewelry

One adorable pair of shiny Calvin Klein shoes

One kid

One pretend husband

And an actual ChemDry technician?

THIS:

While it’s not “Citizen Kane” or even a Geico commercial, I think it turned out to be pretty cute. As for when it will air, it’s a national commercial. It will be all over the internet and if a ChemDry franchise wants to buy local airtime for it, they will. You may see it, you may not.

I was a fun little lark to do.

And since I am now referred to as “The ChemDry Celebrity”?

My life is pretty much complete.

:)

P.S. I plan on getting an award for my deeply moving “finger tap of awesome” and my knowing smile and “I-have-an-adorable-and-perfect-family-head-nod”. (SERIOUS AND COMPELLING ACTING, Y’ALL. Snort.)

P.P.S. My husband is my real husband’s BFF. (I am in works for a reality show called, “Brother Husbands”. Heh.)

P.P.P.S. His name is Max. While my body killed the next day from falling repeatedly, Max DEFINITELY had the worst of the whole shoot. The dog trainer put chicken juice on his face to help the dog jump up on him.

P.P.P.P.S. The little girl is his daughter.

P.P.P.P.P.S. The dog is no biological relation to any of us.

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(Thank you for your emails of support for the grieving mother in our community. We have had roughly 200 letters and can always use more. I will continue to take “Letters of Love” until this Sunday.)

(My first post with the LG TextEd program is up!  Every comment gets a .50 donation to dosomething.org.  (From their Facebook page: “Do Something believes teenagers have the power to make a difference. We leverage communications technologies to enable teens to convert their ideas and energy into positive action. We inspire, empower and celebrate a generation of doers: teenagers who recognize the need to do something, believe in their ability to get it done, and then take action.” Rad, no? Hope you leave a comment or four. :) )

(*Edited to include image and to add that I will be collecting letters until SUNDAY, OCT. 17th. Thank you.)

Dear everyone,

I rarely do this, but I am asking for your help.

Someone lost a baby in our Internet world.

Her name is Jill.

Her son’s name is Joshua–A sweet, adorable baby that had eyes that would break your heart and cheeks that you could probably never get tired of kissing on.

(*Jill stated she does not mind Joshua’s image on positive posts and well…I needed to show you why this story just reached into my soul and has not let go. It’s beyond being a grieving mother myself…his little face is one of the sweetest and most heart wrenching things I’ve seen.)

Jill is having a seriously (and I  mean a very SERIOUSLY) hard time*.

Aside from her child passing away, she is being taxed beyond what ANY human should face during this time.

Many know their story, many do not.

The “story” and aftermath is not the point of this. I have no interest in fostering hate or calling for vengeance or having a place of debate.

I just want to help a fellow human who is in a huge, HUGE amount of pain right now.

I know many of you have given support, love and courage. I am not discounting those efforts at all. She just keeps getting things flung her way and well, I would like to combat that with as much love as the Internet can give.

I want her to know that people still care.

That she is loved.

That she has support around her right now.

Even if you don’t know her,surely it is not hard to imagine what the pain of losing a child would feel like. The hell it would bring to your door.

It seems like it’s futile to go against such grief and such a situation. I’m not trying to change anything, though OH, how I wish I could.  I know I can’t really do much here. But having had some of her pain with my own loss I feel like I need to do…something. And so, I can only draw on my own experiences. Some days all that saved me was reading the kind words people wrote in cards and letters to me about my Matthew.

I would like to give her more of those words to read and hopefully feel some kind of comfort when she finds herself in need of them. I do not want to make a spectacle, insert myself or make this about anything but her, her family and their sweet little one. I want her to have her privacy.

So, I am asking if you could help me send her some love?

A letter of love, to be precise.

A quick email of support.

To show that people care. That her baby is loved and not forgotten.

And hopefully it will help her heart even a tiny bit.

Join me?

Send all emails to loraleechoate (at) gmail (dot) com.

SUBJECT LINE: LETTERS OF LOVE

I will be forwarding them to her friend,Kristine, and a printed and bound copy will be delivered to Jill so she can read them when she needs them.

THANK YOU for your loving support.

xo,

Loralee

*Those of you who know? Know. Those who don’t? Please write anyway. Please.

P.S. No hate allowed. Period.
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