Update posted on social media early this morning (12/19/22 – Monday)

Monday – December 19, 2022

It’s just after 5:00 am – 12/19/22. Can’t sleep. Having a dream about my mom. This is a really hard time of year for me. Dec 25th was her birthday. Born in 1942, she would have been 80 this year. She died far too young. #FuckCancer – I know she would have been proud of my work and everything I’ve accomplished so far & all the people I’ve helped & that’s important to me. She died 3 months after I did the event with Bernie Sanders in Flint in 2016 & about 6 weeks after my presentation with Erin Brockovich – so at least she got to see those things. It’s hard going through the holidays (Rosh Hashanah, Thanksgiving, Chanukah) without any grandparents for the kids – that’s got to be the hardest thing of it all. Anyway… thank you all for being here. Thank you for being a big part of my community / my extended family. If you have parents and grandparents in your lives give them a hug. Take a video of them telling stories from their childhood and youth. Talk about how they want to be remembered when they are gone so that you can make sure their send off is everything they might want it to be. For me the most important way I can honor my mother is to take my kids with me on my adventures for work – to give them the gift of seeing the world as my mother did with me. I’m so lucky I can do that as part of what I do. Anyway… babbling. Thanks for being here. Thanks for helping me reach my goals of reaching more and more families with messages of childhood Lead poisoning prevention. We’re almost to 20,000 Instagram followers now – just 293 more to go (and there’s still 13 days left in the year – so I’m confident we’ll meet this goal.) The numbers themselves are not important but the possibilities they represent are. The possibility that more people will have information to protect their kids from Lead exposure, that more kids won’t have to suffer through the challenges my kids face every day. It’s all worth it in the end (the 17+ hour work days so many days of the year & especially now.) Thanks for being here. Keep protecting those babies. Remember – there’s NO SAFE LEVEL of Lead and Cadmium exposure and that goes for chocolate too – don’t believe the hype from the companies!

I also posted this yesterday – 12/18/22
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Wow – this is amazing. I wish every month looked like this (if it did then this work would be fully self-sustaining: the costs to do the work we do here at Lead Safe Mama, LLC would be fully covered by income earned from the work we do here!) For those who aren’t familiar… this is a graph showing unique page views per day at LeadSafeMama.com over the past month. Thanks for making this possible.