Childoohd Cancer is Right Next Door

You just never know what the future brings.  A year and a half ago we changed jobs and found ourselves a comfy home in a wonderfully cheery neighborhood.  A few Sundays ago I opened my email to find the most shocking news.  Our 16 year old next door neighbor (and fabulous babysitter) was diagnosed with Hodgkin Lymphoma.  My heart just burst!  It was like all that yucky-cancer-hurt buried inside my heart was burst open and thrust upon someone else.  I wanted to catch all that bad cancer pain in the air and not let it escape to another mother's heart.  I had been there.  Now they are living it - right next door to me!

The minutes after I found out that our own Little Air Bear had cancer my father said we would see great blessing come from this trial.  I firmly feel that.  This blog receives hundreds of hits each day, and over the last 3 years I have received many many many messages and emails from other mothers and fathers who are facing similar trials.  Sharing our experience with childhood cancer has been a great opportunity for me to give back, to help lighten the awfulness of it in others' lives, and to offer a brightness of hope that God is there and that He will lift us through our trials.

I have spent the last month working out a way to help our neighbors lighten their trial.  Childhood Cancer is draining in a million ways, but money is such a hard beastly reality of cancer.  All the food, gas, wear on your car, medical bills, family outings to forget about cancer, follow-up visits, and late effect treatments just add up like crazy all while you're still dealing with the normal financial realities of life.  It is a lifelong burden a family with cancer is faced to deal with.

For the entire month of March P.S. I Adore You will feature our friends as their cancer family of the month.  All donations made that month will go directly to their family.  So, hurry . . . donate and/or shop . . . their super fun items change daily and are discounted a ton!

Directions on how to donate:

Please visit www.psiadoreyou.com.  Once on the P.S. I Adore You website you may (1) choose to purchase something, from which a percentage will go to my neighbor.  Or, (2) you may donate directly by clicking on "Donate to Childhood Cancer" on the top left of the homepage.  The items P.S. I Adore You sells on their site change daily, so feel free to stop by their site a few times this month to see their ever-changing stock of awesome discounted items.

Check out the P.S. I Adore You Facebook Page and "like" them to get daily updates on new items added daily.

Those who donate at least $10 between now and March 10th will be entered into a drawing for a $20 Pizza Pie Cafe Gift Card.  Win win!  Every 10 days a new prize will be announced!