Saturday, February 14, 2009

Hi everyone! Hope you all had a Happy Valentine's Day! We are on break from school this week, and I got back today from an overnight with some friends. The rest of the week we will spend relaxing a bit and playing Hannah's new favorite game, Horseopoly (monopoly, horse style.)

After vomiting for the 3rd time last week, Hannah has started on new anti-nausea medicine, Atarax. It's actually an antihistamine, used often for anxiety and nausea, as well as other things. We'll try it for a couple days and see how it works. I hope it helps her. Hannah was able to stay in school all day on Friday, after throwing up in the morning. She started off great, and just as I was thinking that she looked pretty good, uh oh.

On to better things....it's that time again...RELAY FOR LIFE!!  It's hard to believe that one year has already passed since our last (and very first) Relay for Life in 2008.

This year, I spoke with Hannah and Colby about setting up our own team, to raise awareness for pediatric cancer. They liked the idea, so we have our own team, with Hannah as our team captain named Kids vs Cancer. The girls have decided they would like to do a car wash this year as a fundraiser. I think that sounds like fun. Like last year, we will not be soliciting for donations for our team. Although we do support the American Cancer Society, we do have other priorities for raising money that focus specifically on kids like CureSearch, Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation, Children's Brain Tumor Foundation and of course Cans for Cancer. Our focus this year will again be on luminaries.

Last year we sold an amazing 130 luminaries. We all had so much fun decorating the bags in honor/memory of your friends and family. And the bags that were decorated by others we so great! Please watch for the luminary information here. We hope you will all join us again this year to surpass our numbers from last year. 

Kim

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