We are on a family vacation in Mexico. Today we went on an excursion called The Mayan Snorkeling Adventure where our tour guides took a group of ten people to three locations to go snorkeling. At the second location, there was a cliff jump and a zip line going into the water of a Mayan sinkhole. Mackenna’s friend, Devereaux was all about...
Striving for More is very fortunate to be supported by two wonderful groups who are putting on events to benefit our organization. Get out and support one or both of them if you can! Raleigh Mom Prom - Saturday 7/23 This Saturday, Southern Momentum is hosting the first Raleigh Mom Prom. The event will...
There are many wonderful websites out there specifically made for patient blogging. Sites such as CaringBridge and Care Pages are particularly popular in the Childhood Cancer community. When Colleen was sick, we maintained a CaringBridge site for her and it was fabulous. Before we discovered CaringBridge, it had became exhausting to...
"Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn...
If you are looking for a craft project for your family, your church, your girl scout troop, your quilters group or just a group of girlfriends that want to do something nice to help children with cancer, I have the perfect idea! Why not make bead bags? Bead bags are an easy project that mean the world to a child with cancer. Bead bags give...
To most people who look at this picture, it seems like just a simple chair. However, I looked at this picture and immediately burst into tears. That doesn’t happen to me very often, especially in public. But this night was different; this picture had reached back and invoked a memory that I had not thought of that vividly in almost...
"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one." ~ C.S. Lewis I read this quote today and it really rang true to me. While Colleen was sick, I had a number of opportunities to meet other parents whose children were also on similar journeys. I met people who I...
I went to the DMV today to renew my driver's license. The last time it was renewed was in May 2006, a lifetime ago. When I had two living children, when I had a job at Sony Ericsson, when I had a completely different perspective on the world, when I had hair. The man behind the camera looked at my old license picture and said "what happened...