It’s hard for me to find the right words to thank you, but I will try.
You, my friends and family, have truly humbled me.
This year and every year, I’m motivated by breast cancer causes because I lost my own mother, Susan, eleven years ago to cancer.
She was 53, I was 26. She was my mommy and my best friend. And I miss her EVERY day.
Mom and I
In January, I told you that I would be walking in my second Susan G. Komen 3-Day For the Cure 3-Day: 60 miles over three days to help raise funds and awareness for breast cancer. I would be walking with my team, Maidens for Mammograms and Margaritas made up of my beautiful sister-in-law, Victoria and my equally beautiful and amazing mother-in-law Susan, both of whom knew my mother well.
I would be walking because I don’t want anyone else to lose a mother, daughter, aunt, sister, or friend to this disease.
So I told you that I’m walking… and raising money.
In order to participate in the 3-Day, each walker is asked to raise a minimum of $2,300. It’s A LOT of money. But as a stretch goal, our team dedicated ourselves to raising a combined $10,000. I’ll admit when I typed that goal in, I got nervous. It was a big commitment and I did not want to fall short.
And this is where I start to really get emotional.
Over the weekend, while updating my facebook status to tell you all about how close we were to our goal, the donations just started pouring in, and pouring in, and pouring in… and before I knew it we reached our fundraising goal, in fact we surpassed it.
Big time.
So here’s where I feebly try to use words and characters to tell you how deeply grateful I am to you all for your incredible generosity and support.
It just doesn’t seem like enough.
So if I could rent a plane and write it in the sky above I would (but if I could, I’d probably rather donate that money to breast cancer research so scratch that) so I will instead say it here:
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!
I love you.
You have truly humbled me.
P.S.
To date our team is well above our $10,000 mark and the donations are still pouring in. In fact, if you still want to donate you can (here’s our team link).
We are still gathering names of loved ones that have fought breast cancer to add them to our team t-shirts. If you’d like to send us a name to include please email me.[button link="mailto:[email protected]" type="icon" icon="mail" newwindow="yes"] Email me[/button]
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You should be emotional, this is incredible!! Every goal, once met? Should be adjusted to a higher goal. Good Job. I’m telling you, the kindness of people donating toward my walk truly brought me to my knees. And at the end of the 3 Day, knowing that collectively people. Just people like you and me. Raised $4.8 MILLION dollars in Boston? Toward curing breast cancer? That right there is making a change. We are making a change. One step at a time. Congrats, and keep on raising money, girl!!
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That is SO amazing! Congratulations! When people tell me they don’t want to sign up for a walk like this because of the fundraising, I tell them that’s the easy part. I’ve always raised more than I needed. THANK YOU, for being so dedicated and for being part of the team to find an end to breast cancer!
I didn’t have nearly so personal a reason to walk the 3-day with Mommakiss, but I am forever changed because of the experience. I am so glad the people in your life stepped up. When they announced the amount of money raised at the end of the Boston 3-day I was so proud. It has got to be making a difference.
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That is amazing! So glad you have so many people around you to support such a good cause. Wish I could walk with you!
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WOW!! 10k? that’s amazing!! You are amazing Sara! I can’t wait to hear about the walk and see pics…I hope you’re planning to write many blog posts about it.
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