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The Bo Paul Project, Oldenburg, IN (2025)

03/25/2025

Our family and nonprofit wants to give a special and heartfelt shoutout to two incredible young ladies.

Friends Malarie and Cressa have been leading the World Helping Squad for nearly four years now. Each year they raise funds through special events they put together and host, such as bake sales and even a Harvest Party (that’s a big deal in little Decatur County!) they then select an organization that they want to donate their funds to. In the past they have donated a very generous amount to Riley Children’s Hospital, local animal shelters, families that have fallen on extremely devastating times…the list just goes on.

This year the World Helping Squad was thoughtful enough to select The Bo Paul Project and our goal to continue helping grieving families as their recipient!

Last Friday we met with Cressa and Malarie along with their moms and discussed all of the amazing opportunities they have given and received along their journey. We’re talking awards, news pages, Grand Marshall parade stuff…meanwhile I’m sitting there in just awe of how genuinely incredible these 11 year old girls are. To be so sincere and determined to make such a difference in this world, especially at such a young age and to have stuck with it since an even younger age! When I was 7/8, the only thing on my mind was the latest and greatest new toy…not creating a plan to help save the world! But that’s these two without a doubt. They had all of their original draw ups, sketches, ideas, etc. when they spoke of their hard work they talked like it was no big deal and like it’s just the right thing to do in life. So modest. I felt speechless and all I could keep saying was wow as the list of good they have done just kept growing.

As our visit concluded they presented us with official World Helping Squad Badges and a very generous donation. We shared some hugs and a few tears and left feeling so grateful that our paths crossed. Justin and I both sat in almost total silence on the ride back home…just taking in the amount of gratitude we both felt after talking with these girls. We stopped by to visit with Bo before heading home and we felt in our hearts that he’s continuing to walk by our sides and lead us right to all of these incredible families.

I never wanted something like this to be my calling in life, but I am reminded often that what we are doing matters and how special it is to get to meet individuals sharing the same goal in life to help others.

Endless amount of thank you’s to Cressa and Malarie with the World Helping Squad along with their families (especially their moms, Laura and Kristin) for helping guide them through this special adventure that brought them to us 🤍 🌎 💙

11/06/2024

Let’s talk triggers.

Grief is a weird place. A place where both immense love and sadness coincide.

Eleven months into my grief journey and it’s brought out emotions in me that I never knew could exist.

Each person experiences grief differently. Different stages, different coping mechanisms, different triggers, etc. Before we lost Bo, I was familiar with there being different stages of grief…but I had no idea the depth behind them. I had never lost anyone very close to me, therefore, I had never had to walk this path. Something that I was NOT aware of, were the triggers associated with losing someone you love.

Triggers can come in many forms…A scent, a piece of clothing, a song or sound, places. There is no list, it varies for each person. For me personally, one that I never expected to be a trigger is someone chewing gum loudly. The night we found out Bo was gone it felt like an eternity was passing while our nurse tried to find his heartbeat. The room was very silent and I just remember listening to the sound of her chewing her gum. Not that this was ever anything that would have bothered me in the past or I would have ever even noticed…but my mind was hyper-focusing on every sound, praying to hear a heartbeat, but all I could hear was gum chewing.

It was months later before I realized this was a trigger for me. Someone close to me was chewing gum and popping bubbles and I had to step away from them. It came out of nowhere and it hit me like a ton of bricks. My chest immediately felt heavy and I couldn’t breathe, my eyes were burning, I started sweating, I couldn’t focus on the conversation and needed to leave. I was taken right back to that night, that moment…just that easily.

Was this their fault? Absolutely not. Other people are not responsible for your triggers, though expressing your feelings to them and helping them understand is a great way cope and work past the anxiety around your triggers.

Communication and expression during your grief journey is so important. Whether that be with a therapist, a family member, a friend, or even journaling (my personal favorite)…so tell me, what’s something you have experienced on your journey that you never thought would be a trigger?

-Shannon, Grief Counseling Specialist 🤍

10/28/2024

Last Friday Justin and I officially partnered with Columbus Regional Health and made our largest donation yet!

I have been working with CRH for the last couple of months on donating Bo Bears and CuddleCots. They had one request, and that was that it would be so nice to have a smaller bassinet for more preterm babies than what comes standard with the traditional CuddleCot setup. So after a lot of research and my husband’s “can do” engineering attitude / mind, we were able to locate and create two new bassinets that fit with the CuddleCot cooling system.

One bassinet is a perfect fit for babies born at term or near term, 35 weeks and beyond. The second bassinet is ideal for babies born preterm, 35 weeks and earlier.

Overall, we were able to donate 2 custom sized bassinets with bedding, a rocking stand, the full CuddleCot package and original bassinet, extra mats and a lifetime warranty on the full system.

We also provided a year’s worth of Bo Bears to their facility (based off of their statistics) and trained employees on how to fill and present them to grieving families.
What made this delivery even sweeter? Our example bear was a perfectly created 5lb 7.5oz bear made special for a mother on their team who is missing her son every day. She got to take this bear home to her family and especially her sweet daughter!

We have put so much work into our foundation and I am so proud of how far we are branching out and the families we are able to reach.

Thank you CRH, for allowing us the honor of partnering with you to reach more families and the ability to provide the gift of time with their angel.

If you or someone you know is aware of a facility that could benefit from these items, please reach out to us and we would be happy to discuss information with them.

All our love, Justin, Shannon, Libby and Bo 🤍

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