So yesterday was my one year blogging anniversary! Who’dve thunk it eh. A whole year of rambling on, sharing with all you lovely people the jumbled mess in my brain! Well thank you all for listening/reading, its been emotional!
My very first post was around the Race for life 2012, and as it is a year on, we have indeed just completed the Race for Life 2013. There was 4 of us this year, my cousin Theresa, and my other cousins daughters; Megan and Caylie. We walked the 5k course, it took us just a smidge under an hour, which in 30 degree heat and hardly any shade I think was quite an achievement!
We managed to raise £205 in total, £175 online - £65 of that was from the Mad Hatters Tea Party fund, and £30 cash that has been handed to me. I certainly think that is something to be proud of!
Cancer is something that is very real, very close to all of us and something we have all experienced the effects of. Ideally of course we’d like it eradicated or a cure all together, but the best we can hope for at the moment is that the treatments just keep getting better and better and more of our loved ones will be here to see more of the future.
Our family has been very affected by cancer sadly, last year we lost two lovely ladies to the horrible cancer. They were diagnosed within days of each other in March, and died within weeks of each other in May; so it is certainly a cause that is very close to our hearts.
There are of course good news stories with cancer. My grandad, although sadly no longer with us, when he first had cancer in 2002; they were able to treat this and we had another wonderful 5 more years with him before he passed. And we have lots of survivors to be thankful for.
So this research for cancer, the breakthroughs they have made, the treatments they have devised are so important to all of us to help beat this awful disease. I am sure the money we have raised will make a difference somewhere in the system to help families like ours to keep their loved ones for longer.
Soaking my feet in cold water after the race!!
So on this note, thank you to all who have sponsored us, thank you to all who have helped us to raise money and thank you to all who have helped raise money after my birthday as well. Well done you all!
Running total so far….
Cancer research £245 (including tea party donations paid into other pages/our fundraising page/tea party donations to our page)
British Heart Foundation £62.50
Womb Cancer research £50.00
Rowans Hospice £50.00
Happy blogging birthday to me!
TTFN, Sammy xx
