It’s awesome to see how much our Head For The Cure Team has grown in the past couple of weeks. We are up to 149 registered participants, so we only need 51 more sign-ups to reach our goal of 200! We are placing our Team Little Owl t-shirt order soon. If you are new to the team, you will need to be registered by August 8th to get a purple Team Little Owl shirt. We are so thankful for everyone coming together to honor Allie’s memory, and your support means so much to us.
It has been just over a year since Allie died from gliomatosis cerebri. We have tried our best to be open about our journey. We are fortunate to have family and friends that take an interest in how we are doing, and they understand that it continues to be a great struggle to function daily without Allie. People are curious, and we get all types of questions about how things are at home. When asked, I have always tried my best to answer these questions honestly and openly. Here are the three questions that seem to come up the most often. Some of you know these answers already, but others may have wondered the same things.
Thank you to everyone that has joined the Head For The Cure Team Little Owl so far. We already have 107 members registered! We are overcome by the response again this year, and we are very excited for the run/walk on August 24th. We only need 86 more team members to beat last year’s team size! It will be a great event to honor Allie’s memory.
General registration runs through July 10th and
Allie loved singing songs and listening to music. Baby Beluga was her favorite lullaby, and we would sing it to her nightly at bedtime. Besides Baby Beluga, Allie preferred the music of Hot Buttered Rum. If you aren’t familiar with Hot Buttered Rum, they are a bluegrass band out of San Francisco. So they don’t typically get a ton of fanfare from the preschool crowd. However, HBR did a side project where they recorded traditional and original children’s songs for a Discovery Kids music player.
Allie received the Discovery Kids music player as a Christmas gift from Popos and Grandma Rita when she was two. Allie carried the music player around the house, and she and Evie enjoyed dancing to the songs of Hot Buttered Rum. They would turn it up loud, and tell us they were having a party. Kyle and I would jump fifteen years in our mind and talk about the type of party the girls would have then. We thought for sure that they would each still be here and still dancing to loud music together.
After Allie suffered her first seizure in March,
Thank you to everyone that has helped us spread the word about Team Little Owl! We have gained so many new supporters since Monday, and we love each time someone new learns about Allie’s story. We also had a couple of other websites link to TeamLittleOwl.org, and that helps us to grow too. If you have a blog or website, we would be so grateful if you would share TeamLittleOwl.org with your visitors. We have the best team of supporters, and we are so thankful to each and every one of you. We can’t do this alone.
With your continued support, we get to share Allie’s story with the world. For us, Allie encompassed everything that was good in the world: childhood, hugs, laughter, happiness, and a love that knew no bounds. We carry on Allie’s spirit while united by a greater purpose: to help other children affected by brain cancer. These are good things, and we know that more good things are just around the corner for Team Little Owl.
Please join us on August 27th for an uplifting day, walking with friends and family to honor those who have fought or are fighting brain cancer. We will celebrate Allie’s life and legacy while raising awareness about pediatric brain cancer.
Team Little Owl is a proud supporter of the Children’s Brain Tumor Project and the Head For The Cure Foundation.