Heroes

I’ll save all the fabulous details for a moment when I’m not so darn tired, but suffice it to say that we raised over $30,000 today at an event that was, well, really wonderful. As I tucked my beautiful bald boys into bed tonight and told them, yet again, how proud I was of them, […]

“Noble”

Twenty-four (or should I say twenty-three?) hours from now and I’ll be sitting back and counting up the dough. (Heck of a weekend to lose an hour, huh?) But right now, it’s time for that last final push. After raising our event goal by tiny little amounts, from $10,000 to $15K to $18K and then […]

Raising the Bar

I just keep raising that goal and we just keep meeting it. We’ve now raised over $23,500 and are well on our way to exceeding our $25,000 event goal. Not only are we doing well, but St. Baldrick’s events across the country are breaking all previous fundraising records. Every time another million dollars is raised, […]

A Little Token

Of course, our excursion on Wednesday would not have been complete without some media attention. Here’s a link to video coverage on the Lima news. Interestingly, when I said I’d never heard of Bluffton before, I was wrong. I have and I think many of you have as well. Five years ago, on March 2, […]

BaseBald

First of all, thank you for the many birthday wishes yesterday. I had a lovely day with my family, including lunch and a little shopping with my favorite partner in crime (my mom) sandwiched between breakfast with homemade gifts from my sweet boys and I’m-not-cooking-tonight Marotta’s delivered by my handsome husband for dinner. And now […]

Gifts, Large and Small

There are so many reasons we love St. Baldrick’s. Of course, the very necessary research they fund is the main one. But these events and the shavees give us so much more than that. Here are some of the gifts, large and small, we’ve received from our involvement with St. Baldrick’s this year. There are […]

You Matter

We are well on our way. The twenty-nine brave shavees registered for the Cleveland Heights St. Baldrick’s event have raised more then ten thousand dollars. And we are well on our way to reaching our event goal of $15,000. Of course, if every shavee actually met their own individual goal as stated on their page, […]

All of Us

I just got my event planning package in the mail from St Baldrick’s today for my March head-shaving event for children. I eagerly opened the box and found my three beautiful boys looking back at me, several hundred times over. I received fifty posters and 1,500 pocket brochures, every one of them featuring this image: […]

Introducing …

You’ve read my words of praise for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation many times over and have witnessed all my boys as they’ve shaved their heads year after year (2010 here, and here, 2011 here and here). What you may not have known is that each year St. Baldrick’s chooses five children to serve as “Ambassador […]

As It Should Be

The CureSearch Walk was lovely. Thank you so much to those of you who came or who donated money to our team. Northeast Ohio raised more than $47,000 for the important research of the Children’s Oncology Group. Last year, because the weather was so awful, people registered quickly, walked with their heads down against the […]