I posted this last year for Meg’s 29th birthday and I wanted to post again to give this one more push to reach her goal. Meg’s 30th birthday is just a little more than two months away and I would love more than anything if she could reach her goal, and with your help, we can help her reach her goal since she is 58% there.
Thanks again everyone for your help in Standing Up To Cancer!
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I am super excited about this week’s contributor to the Love For 30 Project. I first want to wish Meg a happy birthday, and I am very honored and humbled that she chose the Love For 30 Project to announce her own amazing project to help the American Cancer Society. Her story is touching and heartbreaking, and I know that her mother couldn’t be more proud of her generosity and heart.
If you are interested in joining the Love For 30 Project, please email me and I can give you all of the details to guest post!
29. A hard number to cope with. Your friends are getting married, some are even having kids now but the one life struggle for any woman in her late 20s is the ever looming number 30. I cringe at the thought of turning 30, granted I have approximately 365 days to go until that fateful June day.
8 years ago, 3 months to the day before my 21st birthday, my mom succumbed to her 3 year battle with lung cancer. I was devastated. What girl isn’t devastated during the loss of her mother at any age. I began to think about my 20s and my 30s and the hopes of sharing major life milestones began to flicker out rapidly. I would not have my mother there to snap pictures of me as I receive my diploma and graduate from college. I would not have my mother help me into my wedding gown on my wedding day, straightening the veil just before my father escorts me down the aisle. I would not have my mother there to rock her first grandchild as she murmurs lullabies.
These thoughts still come back to mind from time to time and most days I feel like it is going to make it all that much harder to turn 30. Then my boyfriend, who has been my best friend the past decade, suggested I do something about it. Donate your birthday, he said.
I remembered seeing many advertisements for More Birthday from the American Cancer Society and I thought developing a donation page to raise money over the next year would be the best way to both honor my mother’s memory as well as ease my way into wonderful 30. My goal is set at $3,650, averaging the daily amount donated at $10. I know that with donations I can meet that but I have a strong feeling that my goal will be exceeded.
All donations go direction to the American Cancer Society and every donor will be entered to win their own Birthday Bash Basket; complete with party hats, birthday candle and a Cheesecake Factory Cheesecake of their choosing, with love and gratitude, from me.
Let’s end Cancer and create more memories and more birthdays.
Trina44 says
Hi there, just saw your blog today from the women’s blogger site. I love it, I’m also in my 30’s and as soon as I saw your front loader post, I was hooked. From Trina at http://retrofashionismypassion.blogspot.com