Our day started on a beautiful note with at least eight people up at the crack of dawn to build the Magical Moon booth .

I’m telling you, since I started this dream, my dream has come true by how many people really care about others and are always there to ask, “What can I do?” To me those are the sweetest words on earth besides, I love you!

I can’t say enough about the Stasini family! Steve was sitting on the sidewalk holding down our appointed spot when we arrived at the crack of dawn. My former husband Bob Parent was also a saint through this whole event. He set up and took down the booths each day without a thought to the many other balls he has in the air. Thank you from the bottom of my heart guys.

Bob lost his mom and nephew to cancer and feels a great devotion to helping others find solace. Steve is on Maeve the Brave’s team of supporters.

We now have two new tent tarps and eight tall colorful flag poles with the knight’s names printed on them. My brother, Dana Green cut a sign out in the shape of a scroll and my son, Adam Parent hand lettered it with The Magical Moon Knight’s Unite on it.

At this time I’m going to attempt at mentioning all of the others who showed up and worked to make the two days a very memorable experience for all of us.

Jean Digiacomandrea, Dana Green, Steve and Bobbie Sands, Mary Talbot, Rosee Uttal-Duffy, Emily Dormitzer, Monique and Adam Parent, Candace Cramer, Donna the Dynamic (oldest poster child for the foundation!) We love your sense of humor, Donna!, her daughter and strongest army member Kim, Linda and Richard Kearney, Linda is otherwise known as Mary Fagic, Katy MacDonald, Doug , Suzanne Kearney, Sir Alison the Awesome!, and her dad Doug, sister Hannah, royal mum Cathe, Hank, Jim and Suzanne Mularkey army of Sir Kyle the Kind, Sir Tanya the Tender and her husband Bryan, her son ,Sir River Sage our first knight and River’s sister Mercy Rain, Sir Cayden the Courageous with his royal mum Alanna, royal Dad David and a whole Royal army of Grandparents!, Kathy Dunn, the entire Tasini entourage, Sharon, Jessilyn, Kristin, answering to every name under the sun for two days!, dad Steve, Maeve the Brave, brother Finbar the Great, Aunt Stacy , Lily I apologize but Stacy brought an army of friends and family who’s names have escaped me at the moment but I must say you were like a wall of strength there, Megan De Lisi and her husband Jeffry who recently lost our beautiful little Sir Luca the Loving, all of Luca’s local loving army, Chip De Lisi, Michelle Cayer from the bead combers kingdom ,Claire B, and friends , Jessie B who designed our brochures, The elders from Mystic Isle, Kamalini and Joanie, Sir Mary the Magnificent and her royal mum Maribeth and grandma, the tons of people who sent pieces of jewelry in honor of friends and family, I know I’m forgetting names but my brain is not as young as it used to be and the mother board is getting a little full these days! Know that you are with this group of people I want to thank and give a huge air hug to!

The two day event flew by and it was an unbelievable experience to have our knights show up one by one. Donna the Dynamic lives up to her name. She worked tirelessly without stop with her daughter Kim standing ready to catch her for the entire time. I met Donna recently though her daughter who told me through tears her mom had three brain tumors. Since that time she has been treated and all three are gone. We keep her in that pink light as she finds new life!

Sir Tanya the Tender and Sir River Sage Dunn came down from Maine with husband and dad Bryan and little sister Miss Mercy Rain to help. They are an unbelievable team! River is our first Knight of The Magical Moon and he came in his royal garb as always to set the mood!

Sir Cayden the Courageous arrived in real style with his army in tow. He just wanted to get out of the confusion and slay some dragons! Two year old knights have no use for all of this boring standing around stuff. They’re all about action! His mum Alanna sent us an email after the event saying they’ve started a project of their own called Cayden’s Change . They’ve made a generous pledge to send some change our way. Thank you so much Alanna. We keep Cayden in our prayers as always. We’ll have a link to their project site soon.

Maeve the Brave… Well what do I say but, “she’s got the idea of army support in the bag!” Maeve has so many people around and behind her. Where ever she walks they walk around her like a wall. That energy is so strong there’s nothing that will stop her!

Maeve had an MRI a few days before the event and they gave her the good news that her tumor has not grown! Way to go Maeve. Lets all see the world like Maeve the Brave and see that glass half full. Keep imagining that bump on her spine getting smaller and smaller guys! We have a picture of Maeve trying on one of our courage package hats. She looked very knightly!

Sir Alison the Awesome has stolen our hearts. She is one of the most beautiful teenagers I’ve ever met She’s so full of grace. She has just designed our official Moon necklace and with the help from Michelle Cayer will be selling them on the Magical Moon Foundation web site. She worked with all of the children making cards for children in Dana Farber for Royal Rosie to bring in with her on her weekly trips. Helping her was Kristin and Jessilyn Tasini and Emily Dormitzer my newly adopted daughter( don‘t tell her mom!). I called Kristin every name I could possibly think of but her own and she always answered this confused woman with a smile. Her sister Jesilyn I swear will be president someday! She is also beyond words. Such a positive family. Mom Sharon was the first to come onboard to help with this and worked to the very end saying, “ok what’s next”.

Megan De Lisi came down to my farm a couple of nights before the event to make jewelry to sell. Megan is the mom of three year old Luca the Loving who just three months ago became a knightly angel. He felt he could do more to help knights from the other side and is working through his incredibly brave mom and the Velveteen Rabbit. His spirit visits her through a real little rabbit that comes up to her in her garden . There will be more about this very soon on this site. It’s such an incredible story of hope! Sir Luca the Loving, … Spirit of the Rabbit.

I also want to thank the glue team here. Jean Digiacomandrea, Dan and Bea Green, Mary Talbot, Rosee Utall-Duffy, Linda Kearney, chief organizing guru, Richard Kearney, Susan Bisignaro and Candace Cramer. Without them there is no MMF.

All in all we had a great time. Uniting the knights made us a stronger army . Nothing will stop us now. We vow our allegiance to all the beautiful knights around the world and we won’t stop until we’ve reached every last one of them!