So my baby got a new-do.....all for a good cause.
A few weeks ago we had a Relay For Life event for Cancer in our home town. We have a very successful event every year.
This was the year...."Mom I want to do my donation at the event." Really?
We attend the event each year, we walk the path and read all the honors of the survivors and the memorials of the ones we have lost. It is a wonderful event and it is very heartwarming and touching. Our home town Senior class organize it each year along with a dedicated teacher. He also happens to be the Mayor and he is inspiring.
Teams are formed, money is raised, and they walk all night. The event fills the park with events and festivities. We are all reminded of the importance of fighting and having the strength to not give into cancer.
This year was Belle's 3rd Locks for Love donation in her life time and I couldn't be more proud. If there's one thing we can grow it is hair... As night time fell and she was told that her donation would be on stage. Stop right there. Up there in front of everyone! Me! I don't want to. Well,
needless to say we made it on stage, but you can see the fear. Not about the hair we're good with that it was all about the crowd and the spotlight, that made it's way on her. Oh to be 11 again and have things seems so big.
As I walked the path this year I am grateful, that I am not on a luminary. We came so close and we thought for sure it was cancer. I pray each day and give thanks for my family that I was strong enough to overcome and my body didn't give into cancer. I pray each day that something later doesn't turn up. To every family living with cancer you are in my thoughts and prayers. You are in my heart.
Today I am proud and grateful.
I give thanks to everyone fighting to learn and find the cure. -L.
