Is Anybody Out There????

I put the counter on to see if anyone was reading this blog! Please leave comments if you get a chance! I like to know if anyone is reading and what you are thinking!

By the way, PLEASE tell everyone you know about the SCRAPBOOK CROP!!! It is going to be FUN FUN FUN! We need to get some registrations going! I wonder if I am going to be able to scrap this time?! LOL I will probably be too busy!!!

http://www.chemomoms.eventbrite.com

Some of the cool things that will be raffled are STACY JULIAN'S (editor of Simple Scrapbooks) online class GLIMPSES and a cute autograph collection of several FAMOUS scrapbook designers who wanted to help us out!

PLUS MORE....

But you have to SIGN UP to be eligible!!! Let me know what you think!

Registration for the Crop is OPEN!!!

Go to this website and register online for the scrapbook crop on May 12!!!

http://chemomoms.eventbrite.com

You can pay by paypal, credit card and also by check. Let me know if you need to mail your registration fee and I will email you the address.

Yippee! I am getting excited!!!

Registration for the Crop is OPEN!!!

Go to this website and register online for the scrapbook crop on May 12!!!

chemomoms.eventbrite.com

You can pay by paypal, credit card and also by check. Let me know if you need to mail your registration fee and I will email you the address.

Yippee! I am getting excited!!!

Now accepting registrations and donations!

We will open registration for the scrapbook crop beginning on Monday!!!

Checks for registration AND donations can be made payable to CHEMO MOMS OF MOBILE
Registration for the crop is $40

I will post the link to the registration form and you can print it out or email the information to chemomoms@yahoo.com with the word CROP REGISTRATION in the subject line!

Thanks!

PS: Our first official CHEMO MOMS "Survival Kit" went out to a mom on FRIDAY! Hopefully I will have a picture to post here of it! Check back on Monday!

Our Successful Meeting with USA CWH!!

Wow, yesterday was super busy!!!
Hope and I met with Michelle, Brenda and Robin to show them the "welcome basket" that we want to provide for inpatient parents. They were very appreciative of what we are trying to do.
They will be contacting parents in the hospital and giving them our phone numbers, email, etc. so they can contact us if they want to. We are limited on contact because of privacy issues: the parents must call us first. That is where the social workers will be helpful to us.

The basket contained the following items - if you can help provide any of these, please let me know. We are open to ALL donated items!

Plastic bucket - Big Lots - $2
Clear or purple cellophane wrap (like for Easter baskets)
Purple, green and/or gold wide ribbon for a bow
Spiral notebook & pen
Pocket Calendar - Walmart $2
Small Address/phone directory
Lysol wipes canister (not the large one)
emery board
travel size shampoo/conditioner (just not a baby brand), hand lotion
chapstick
small microwaveable meals, soups, etc
popcorn
purse size bottle of hand sanitizer
small packet of Tums, Tylenol, Advil
small pack of thank you notes - Big Lots $1
feminine products
cheap digital thermometers ($10)

Oops!

I just realized that the way I worded the post below, it sounds like the crop is only for moms who have cancer kids!
NO!!!!
The crop is for ANYBODY and the funds raised will support our group "ChemoMoms" and help us to do some things for the parents here locally!!!

Sorry for the craziness!

12 Hour Scrapbook Crop for ChemoMoms!!!

Our first official fundraiser is here! REGISTER NOW HERE

Saturday May 12, 2007
12 Hour Scrapbook Crop for ChemoMoms
10 am to 10 pm
First Baptist Tillman's Corner (Three Notch Rd, next to Dreamland Skate Center)
Fee $40 - includes tshirt, lunch and registration
Lots of ****door prizes, raffles and drawings****, snacks and drinks and FUN!

Guess what we will be giving away or raffling???

• A gift card to a local scrapbook store
• A scrapbook gift basket with lots of fun stuff
• A car wash basket (great for Father's Day coming up!)
• An online scrapbooking class donated by STACY JULIAN herself!
• A minibook with several famous scrapbooking designer's autographs
• And more!!!!

One of the main goals of ChemoMoms is to remember the parents/grandparents of kids who are sick. We want to do special things for the moms/dads. The kids are given all kinds of toys and attention, but the parents are always left out. We want to be able to send them to dinner with their spouse, hair styling, massages, and remembering their birthdays.

To do this, we need to raise MONEY!! LOL

I hope you can get some friends together and support our local moms while having fun and winning goodies! You don't have to have anything to scrapbook - just come and have fun visiting! We will have lots of tools available and possibly some scrapbook products for sale in case you forget something. There will also be a digital camera and photo printer available too!

If you know someone who might be able to donate items either for this fundraiser to be raffled OR if they want to donate something to give to the parents, such as gift cards to restaurants, gas stations, long distance calling cards, we would LOVE to hear from you!

First Try!

Ok, this is my first attempt at blogging. I have been doing it for almost 2 years on my daughter's website, but now I am "branching out" and creating a blog for ChemoMoms.

Anyone who has anything to do with childhood cancer, be it a survivor, caregiver or just a concerned person is welcome to join our little crusade. When my daughter was diagnosed in 2005, I thought she was the only cancer kid in Mobile! Ha!

Since then I have met MANY people and the most sincere people are moms of cancer kids.
They know what life is like, how things are different and most importantly, they understand the fear that we live with daily.

Please bookmark this blog as I will update it regularly, and you don't want to miss any of our events!

With HOPE,
Tammy