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On the eve of her JDRF walk fundraising efforts, Charlotte’s mom has created a special video in Charlotte’s honor… hope you’ll take a minute to watch and be inspired… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PSN9-Q2iJY
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Last week’s mileage was considerably less than my average, but every step counts, right? My to-date total miles are now 64.5! I expect I’ll easily make it to 100 my the end of the month.
So, I’m wondering who’s been visiting and reading… wordpress provides some blog tracking and stats but I’m still left pretty much in the dark – would love to hear more comments.
My girls’ daycare will be hosting a “Caps for the Cure” fundraiser and I’ve joined the JDRF cause on Facebook and have been sending invites for others to join too. Trying to do my part.
Need to figure out some new approaches for fundraising myself… it seems so simple… just $500, yet I’m afraid my progress meter just sits at $0… I’m doing my part- walking the 500 miles, so shouldn’t everyone just pony up their dollar-a-mile???? Is charity not sexy anymore? Is the economy truly this bad? Have I just not asked you all in the right way? Please let me know… what does it take? Regardless of my success in raising money, I’m determined to walk on for the cause and blog here to raise awareness…
So last week I accrued another 27.4 miles bringing the grand total to 49.4 miles or just under the 50 mile mark… and with 188 days to go to my deadline I’m progressing nicely.
I’ve got two great ideas for the fundraising at the girls’ daycare and will be discussing them with the director this week. I hope she’s still onboard. The girls were so cute – they called Charlotte on the phone to tell her that they were going to find a cure for her diabetes so she won’t have to be sick anymore! I sure hope so!
Yesterday I learned an important lesson… the importance of just asking for what you need or want. I approached my daughters’ daycare director about holding a diabetes walk to fundraise for JDRF and she quickly and enthusiastically agreed. I had carefully prepared what I was going to say and had anticipated a negative response so I was ready to ask her to give it some thought and then decide – which I still ended up saying, so I suppose I’ve now opened the door for her to change her mind, but I sure hope she won’t.
I’m so excited but now also nervous about how I’m going to make this work and be a success. I’ll be reviewing the walk materials JDRF has provided this weekend and start to make some plans! This is so cool!
So, I know I struggle with commitment… this is part of why I am blogging this experience- accountability. I’m hoping that knowing that somebody is out there reading I’ll be compelled to keep up my end of the bargain.
So this morning as I circled the track I thought of proposing the idea to you all to “buy a mile.” The good news too is that miles are cheap… just a $1! My plan as you know is to walk 500 miles between now and Charlotte’s JDRF walk (team Moochie’s Marathoners!) and raise $500 in the process.
Interested? Buy a mile, buy 5, buy 10… pick your mile – challenge me – wanna buy mile 357 – go for it – you don’t pay until I walk it! I’ve been thinking about creating some kind of cool graphic to post for you guys to see my miles and better yet for me to see my progress – how fun would it be for you and your donations to be scattered across my mileage map… sure seems it would keep me committed if I knew there was no cha-ching! until I did my part and walked the miles you bought… so let the mileage sale begin… drop me a comment, send me an email… pledge on the JDRF page. And I’ll get busy making that mileage graphic so we can have some fun with this.
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So I’ve decided I’m on a mission… you see I have these two nieces with much the same story. Kaelyn will be turning 8 this June and Charlotte will be turning 5 in August. Both girls were diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes (or juvenile diabetes) around the age of 2 following a GI virus that unknowingly set off a dramatic immune response in their tiny little bodies and attacked their panacreas. It amazes me to watch both girls deal with a chronic disease at such young ages and breaks my heart at the same time. I’m busy raising “healthy” twins who are just 7 weeks younger than Charlotte, so I try to imagine walking in my sister’s shoes as she raises Charlotte and contends with her disease daily. And I’ve also watched in awe as my sister-in-law deals not only with Kaelyn’s diabetes but also a diagnosis of Celiac disease – essentially a gluten allergy, which only complicates matters more.
Each year Charlotte and my sister, Michelle, and Kaelyn and my sister-in-law, Anne sponsor JDRF walk teams in the girls’ honor and raise funds to seek a cure. Unfortunately my girls, Hannah and Sarah, and I don’t get to join them as we all live in different states. So this year, I’m on a journey from now until Charlotte’s walk date – 173 days from now- to walk 500 miles – walking in her shoes to raise awareness and hopefully, some money too, for JDRF and a cure. I’ll chronicle my journey here – I’m not sure where the path will lead but I’m excited to begin.
You can visit my JDRF fundraising page at
| http://walk.jdrf.org/walker.cfm?id=87014117 |
