This beautiful little boy is my neighbor’s nephew. Brody has cancer.That picture was taken in the hospital when he was receiving treatment.
Doesn’t that smile just melt your heart?
You can see his strong spirit shining through, no doubt giving his family the strength they need to get through each day. Can you even fathom it? I can’t even…
I started Team Tiny Oranges last year because I wanted to do a charity project through my blog.
I knew I wanted it to benefit a charity that helped children, so when I heard about the Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation’s (PCRF) annual Cinco de Mayo Run / Walk event which happened shortly after I posted this guest blog from a mommy reader who was a pediatric cancer survivor looking to raise awareness, I knew this was the cause I wanted to support.
I wanted the opportunity today to share the story of a mom I met last year through PCRF, Kim, and her son, Gavin.
When you are not personally affected by pediatric cancer, those words are just that, words. But what I learned through doing our team, is that behind the words, “pediatric cancer” there are countless stories of families facing this horrendous disease. Families that need our help.
It is my hope that by sharing their story today…
We did this fun (easy) charity project last year with my then 4 1/2 year old daughter Emma and I wanted to share because it was such a sweet lesson for kids on giving back.
As many of you already know, in 2011, I organized a team through my blog to participate in the Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation Run / Walk called Team Tiny Oranges. I signed both my daughters up for the 1K Kids’ Fun Run, so they each had a personal fundraising page for our team.
For Emma’s fun-draising I thought it would be meaningful to find a way for her to get involved so we held a donut sale called “Emma’s Sweet Shop” at our bi-annual block yard sale.
In the end she raised over $258 of which we were able to donate 100% to the PCRF to help kids with cancer!
By the way, I JUST started Team Tiny Oranges 2012 to participate in the PCRF event this year on May 6th, 2012 so I would LOVE it if you and your families could join us and get involved!
It’s here! It’s here! The PCRF race weekend has finally arrived!
That is our team banner above. One of my team members, Calee, from eXist Designs was generous enough to donate it to our team. I think it turned out so cute and even though this picture is not the greatest, I love how the sun reflected and made stars on the top left, because that is how I feel… Team Tiny Oranges is going to sparkle & shine this Sunday!
On October 17th I was running a race and thought, “wouldn’t it be fun to put together a team for the PCRF Run Walk in May?” In the beginning when I was considering starting a team I pondered whether I could even get the 10 people I needed to be considered a “team.”
Well, today we are 111 team members strong, and, have raised over $23,200 dollars for pediatric cancer research. I still am in a little state of disbelief at what our team has accomplished. Eighty cents on every dollar raised for PCRF goes towards research so I can’t tell you how happy it makes me knowing the dollars we raised truly will make a difference.
The past six months of planning this event have been a journey for me; one I don’t think I was fully prepared for going into it. At times it has been exhausting and a little emotional. Correction, really emotional. It has also been…