Kindness Day 2018 - Reading of the Names

Reminder: Kindness Day Remembrance this Friday

Reminder: Kindness Day Remembrance this Friday

We will be Broadcasting live on Facebook again this year on Sad Dads Club Page, Last year over 1500 parents in 4 countries viewed our "Reading of the Names" of the Children gone too soon <3 We will start Live at 7pm ..7/27/2018 From the Angel of Hope

https://www.facebook.com/events/193386101380994/

Memorial Day Weekend

For many of us, Memorial Day is just a day off from work or school, but it also is a solemn day for those of us who served their country and lost our brothers and sisters in uniform on the battlefield. It is a day when we remember the sacrifices made by these heroes so we as a nation can always live in peace.

So as you go about your day off on Memorial Day on Monday, put out your flag, attend a commemorative ceremony, place flags in our local cemeteries on the graves of those who served or wear the traditional poppy. Let's honor the memory of those who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country.

They were the sons daughters, husbands, wives, grandchildren and grandparents who are and will continually be missed by their loved ones.

Memorial Day is exclusively for honoring those who died serving our nation during wartime.

Sacrifice is meaningless without remembrance.

June Meeting

16 Years ...Without You

Please Remember Dawn Marie Sansone today on her Angelversary with an act of Kindness or light a candle in her memory Please

Sadly 16 Years ago today My world changed forever, My Darling Dawn Marie Taken in a moment. Each morning even after all these years I still wake and the first thought is You… and as always just hoping it was a Bad Dream…

.I miss you every day, I miss our talks,cigs on patios, road trips, those hugs you always had for Dad. And most of all “That Smile”

No time ever makes this easier for a parent..Too those who do not know…Time means nothing..To those that live this tragedy know only too well..

I have been blessed to have so many friends and family who have supported my family all these years. Each and every one of your comments has been taken to my heart over these years.

To my children..The memory you keep active of your sister has warmed my heart and know you all miss her as well….Thank you to my wife for being there with me meeting just a few months after Dawn passed and always understanding ..

Also it would take paragraphs to thank the so many who have been a support or inspiration..I Thank You ALL

But to my Friend and Sad Dads Club Co Facilitator Theo Soumilas and my Angel here on Earth Dr Joanne Cacciatore, Who is the founder of the MISS Foundation and who found me lost in December of 2002.
NO WORDS BIG ENOUGH TO SAY THANK YOU…

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I'M WAITING

I Wanted You To Know......
I Was Sitting Here In Heaven
And Having a Wonderful Day.
I Started Thinking about You
And All The Things I Didn’t Get A Chance To Say.

I Don’t Want You To Worry About Me
And Please Don’t Shed Any Tears,
Because I Will Wait For You In Heaven,
If It Takes A Hundred Years.
Everything I Had On Earth
I Have In Heaven Too!

My First Day Here
My Body Became Brand New.
It Is Really Pretty Here
And I Love My New Home,

Although Your Heart Is Broken
Because My Body Is Gone.

My Love Will Always Be There
As You Go Along The Way,

Just Take A Peek Inside Your Heart
There Is Where I’ll Stay.

Know That I Loved My Family
And All My Friends Too,
My Thoughts Will Be With Each Of You
Your Whole Life Through.

In Loving Memory Of Dawn Marie Sansone (Forever 23)
Who Went Home To Be With The Lord –1/2/1978- 11/6/2001

Kindness Day 2017

As I have the last 6 years and will be placing 100 roses for the Children Gone Too Soon at the Angel of Hope in Scottsdale...Join us..

We will also be reading the names of those gone too soon live on Facebook

Join The Sad Dads Club For Kindness Day
Wednesday July 26th @ 7:00pm

We will be having a SPECIAL Sad Dads Club Meeting That Night

OPEN TO ALL, Guys, Gals and Families to honor the children gone too soon for Kindness Day

We will be placing Roses and reading the names of the children gone too soon7:00pm

*** If you would like your child's name read please leave name in comments****@

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ROSES WILL BE PROVIDED BY SAD DADS CLUB

Join us live or in spirit !

The Angel of Hope
Hansen Desert Hills Mortuary and Cemetery
6500 East Bell Road
Scottsdale, Arizona85254
If you would like your child's name read please leave name in comments on Sad Dads Page

https://www.facebook.com/groups/saddadsclub/

By Dr Joanne Cacciatore/ MISS Founder

July 27th is International Kindness Project Day, a day when grievers around the world from the U.S. to England to Paraguay to Botswana to Canada to New Zealand will come together to bring their loved one's presence back into the world so that they are remembered.

I never imagined, when I started the Kindness Project in the summer of 1997, that millions of kindness projects would be committed around the globe.
This project was born in my heart on Christmas eve of 1994. I knew I couldn't spend the money that was rightfully Cheyenne's on my other children. So I took that money and bought toys for underprivileged children, and I delivered them alone the day before Christmas. I dropped them off, wanting as much anonymity as possible, got back in my car hurriedly, and wept for nearly an hour.
It was bittersweet, though much more bitter than sweet at this point.
Some months later, I was in a shoe store buying back-to-school shoes for my children. I overheard a family debating which ones of their many children needed shoes more than the others. They all needed them, commented the parents, but they couldn't afford them. I found the store manager, bought a gift card with enough funds on it to pay for all the children's shoes, wrote on a little piece of paper "in memory of Chey", and I quickly left before he gave them the surprise.
It was only 18 months later that the MISS Foundation was born. I didn't name the MISS Foundation - or any of our programs- after Cheyenne. I chose, specifically, not to do that.
Similarly, I valued helping others anonymously, knowing in my heart that Chey's death had left me with a greater sense of compassion and agape for others, but not wanting to be recognized for it. Truly, it was not about some act of nobility. It was pure love for my child, a strong desire to make meaning, and newfound- profound- compassion for others. I wanted to be her hands and feet in the world. I wanted others to know that this little child lived, this little child died, and this little child continued to matter.
And so my anonymous giving grew. And as it did, the paralyzing grief was balanced by something more numinous, more reflexive, and I felt something in the core of my being- something inexplicable- moving me.
At some point, I realized these acts- both the little and the big- were helping me to cope.
And, I thought perhaps it could help others who were bereaved. Because simply, we cannot serve others without serving ourselves. We cannot give to another without giving to ourselves. We cannot bring comfort to another without bringing comfort to ourselves.
The Kindness Project was born about a year after the inception of the MISS Foundation. Born of pain. Born of compassion. Born of a love bigger than death.
And today, now 21 years later, it is much more sweet than bitter.
I invite you all to join us. For them. For each of us. For the entire world.- Joanne Cacciatore

Please visit http://www.missfoundation.org/support/kindness
to print your FREE cards in English and Spanish and join us in this project tomorrow and every day.

You can also "Like" our Kindness Project page to get updates on the amazing stories we receive from around the world!


Imagine this:
All around the world,
on this one day of the year,
mourners will be transforming their grief into a

Grief Lingers

Others don't seem to understand why the grief of child loss lingers on. In their eyes, losing a child was a terrible tragedy, but one that parents should learn how to "get over" and "move forward." Losing a child is not similar to losing a house or a job or a car. Losing a child is losing part of a parent entire being -- part of the soul. 

This child, this miracle, was part of his/her parents from conception and when that separation took place, there was something known as "heartbreak." Many parents say they knew the exact moment their child died because they felt the pain of that separation clear to their soul.

 This grief is different from all other grief. Parents will grieve the loss of their child forever -- until that time when they are reunited in heaven again. It is this hope of an eternal place called heaven that is often the single most hope that gives parents of loss the ability to continue living after the death of their child. 

So, no, the grief of child loss never ends. It changes, and can feel different to parents as the years move on, but this is a grief that remains forever and ever.

Kindness Day 2016

Join The Sad Dads Club For Kindness Day
Wednesday July 27th @ 6:30pm

We will be having a SPECIAL Sad Dads Club Meeting That Night

OPEN TO ALL, Guys, Gals and Families to honor the children gone too soon for Kindness Day

We will be placing Roses for all the children at 6:30pm

The Angel of Hope
Hansen Desert Hills Mortuary and Cemetery
6500 East Bell Road
Scottsdale, Arizona85254

https://www.facebook.com/groups/saddadsclub/

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This new pizzeria will be located at 100 E. Camelback Rd., Suite 152 in the Uptown Plaza Shopping Center in Phoenix. Although renovations are just beginning, we’re thrilled to bring our legendary Chicago-style deep dish pizza to Arizona.

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Sad Dads Club Changing Days

Starting in November 2015, The Sad Dads Support Group will be changing days and location.

We will be meeting on the 4th Wednesday of every month with first meeting on November 25th
6:30pm -8:30pm

The new location will be the 

Franciscan Renewal Center

Location

5802 E. Lincoln Drive, Scottsdale AZ 85253
480.948.7460

In Memory

Angelversary Memorial Friday 11/6 @ the Angel of Hope

IN MEMORY OF DAWN MARIE SANSONE

14 years ago today I got the worst news a Parent could receive 

My Oldest Daughter Dawn Marie was was taken from us by a hit and run driver at the age of 23, 

The world or my heart has never been the same!!

 I still feel the same pain today I felt that tragic day..

Today Please  light a candle to remember that Wonderful smile and to keep her memory alive !!

Please say her name today, She will never be forgotten !
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ON YOUR ANGELVERSARY

It's been so long since we saw you last...
It makes it so hard to think back to the past.

The family is not the same since you went away
We were lost, sad and helpless on that angel day.

Even after this length of time has gone by...
It still brings me to tears and I start to cry.

Oh what would you look like, where would you be...
If you were still here for all of us to see.

I think of you always, and I hope that you know...
Life here without you I never wanted to know

I know your an angel with halo and wings...
With family and friends, and know many things.

There's one thing that I want you to know today..
I will always love you, miss you and wish you could have stayed.

Love Dad

Join Us

Join Us !!    The Annual MISS Foundation Kindness 5K and Memorial Walk 2015, This Saturday October 3rd @7:30am.....Midwestern University, Glendale Az

The Sad Dads Club will have a Booth at the Walk and look forward to meeting all those who have expressed interest or are a member, Stop By ..We have giveaways for the kiddies and info for those seeking to join our support and social group..."For The Guys Only"

Also Phase 3 of the Memorial Wall will be Unveiled

.PLEASE CLICK LINK BELOW TO REGISTER OR DONATE TO THIS WONDERFUL ORGANIZATION...

http://www.firstgiving.com/missfoundation/miss-foundation-kindness-5k-and-memorial-walk-2015