If you are in Walgreen's hunt up this pic of my Great Niece Lily on the Chemo Duck poster. Lily is a survivor of Leukemia and the namesake of Lily's Garden - a effort at raising awareness and money for a cure to this terrible disease.
Showing posts with label Lily's Garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lily's Garden. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Sunday, January 02, 2011
Gleaning Facebook: Lily's Garden Holiday Wish
Final Report on our
Lily's Garden Holiday Wish....
Final Report on our Lily's Garden Holiday Wish....
A wonderful person who insists upon anonymity has given $300 cash to bring our total giving for the Holiday Wish to $1035!! Thank you to all the contributors and well-wishers. Also I think that some of you made donations through the Vanderbilt Children's Hospital video that I posted. I have no record of thoose but they also go toward a cure for childhood cancer, so I am also very thankful for those gifts. This has been one of my my favorite Christmas gifts ever! (Well, there was there was that 3-speed bike in 1959! And you may have read about the gift my Dad left for me in 1986. But this is certainly right up there!)
Thank you!
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Gleaning Facebook: At Carol's Place
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| Beth Shaw: Look how cute y'all are! |
Snowball ...
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| ...is a climber. |
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| Sheila cradles Troy |
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| Haley hugs Snowball |
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| Lily sports about her PawPaw's property... |
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| ...while Sophie and Haley bounce around in the back... |
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| ...still celebrating their Star performances in the One Mile Run part of the Country Music Marathon activities. |
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| Jane Baird Lathem: What a happy bunch! Lily looks a lot like her PawPaw! |
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| My brother David |
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Gleaning Facebook: Half Marathon
Before and after 13.1 miles
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| We arrived at LP Stadium before good light this morning. Janice Shaw Crouse What fun! I am so proud of all of you and can't stand it that I missed being there! You guys did great!!! Where are piks of David's family? Get those up, David!! |
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| Looking fresh as a daisy. Lillian Shaw Mom! Lookin' gooooooood. |
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| relaxed and ready Tammy Dehart You looked ready for a marathon! Hope you guys had fun! |
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| After, Ron and my Mother veg out at a tent erected for Lilly's Garden participants. |
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| Lisette, Debi, and Sheila walk toward the 13 mle marker... |
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| They break into a trot as they near... |
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| ...the... |
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| ...finish... |
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| Carol Shaw Johnston: LOVE this photo! |
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| ...LINE!!!! Carol Shaw Johnston: I actually got tears in my eyes looking at this photo! I'm so PROUD of their perseverance. YEA!!! |
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| Jane Baird Lathem I wish I had been able to walk with you. I am SO proud of all of you who walked for Lily! What a blessed little girl to have so many people who love her. |
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| A well-earned medal ... |
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| more medalists! |
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| Hurray! Marshall Jones: Good for you. I will be running the one in San J     |
Comments:
Naomi Liles Crouse
Congratulations! Will enjoy hearing all about it once you've recovered!
Nancy Waters Carr
great job, what a wonderful thing to do
Joan Shaw Turrentine
Oh, I wanted to be there!!! Congrats to all you finishers!
Terrell Shaw
Thanks, Naomi, Nancy, and Joan!
Amanda Hearn Sims
I wish I could have been there! Wonder why they add the .1 mile as if 13 miles isn't long enough lol. I'm so proud of all of you for completing this challenge and for such a wonderful cause!
Terrell Shaw
Having refreshed my memory via Wikipedia:
Susan Cherones
YAY YOU!
Terrell Shaw
Thank you Susan! Hope you are enjoying you new home.
Charmaine Yoest
Oh I so wish we could have been there!! Yay for Lily's Garden!
Saturday, March 07, 2009
Gleaning Facebook: Please Help Nurture Lily's Garden
Please help nurture Lily's Garden!
I am wearing a bracelet these days. (Actually two.) This is not a usual thing for me. I have never sported much flair. I wore the ring Sheila gave me on August 1, 1971 until she lost it when I entrusted it to her while I endured a kidney stone procedure a year or so ago. I wear silly ties occasionally at school. On silly hat days at our school I am a good sport.
But a month or so ago I began wearing a plastic wristband with white and purple swirls and a message: "Weeding out Leukemia http://lilysgarden.org". I am wearing it for a beautiful and brave little seven year-old girl who is my great niece.
Lily and her sister dance
The band reminds me to do my little part (praying, training for the half-marathon fundraiser, spreading the word) in the battle against childhood cancer. There is not enough being done. We need to put more resources toward a cure. Today I began inviting my Facebook friends to help out --FB picked 60 of you at random for invitations today. I know, I just hit you up to help save the Coosa, and that's near and dear to me, but I want children like Lily to have a chance to enjoy the Great Outdoors. If you would like to help, and haven't already, please join the cause and invite your Facebook friends along too and make a donation. Consider it a sponsorship of Terrell and Sheila's efforts in the Country Music Half Marathon, she and I will appreciate that. 100% (97.5% if you use Paypal) of all donations to Lily's Garden will go toward conquering childhood cancer.
If you live around here and would like to wear a bracelet like mine,
I have several. I'll be happy to share. Thanks!
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Gleaning Facebook: It's a Small World
Terrell Shaw is amazed at this small world.
This morning as I duplicated Mr. Shaw's Stars Study Guide to the American Revolution, the little red-headed girl from down the street and her mom passed the copy room and said Hi! Then she asked if I had heard that Granddaddy was sick and in the hospital. No I hadn't. What's his ailment? And the mom uttered that terrible word, "Leukemia." So I started to tell them about how leukemia has staggered our family and as I raised my sleeve to show off my swirly purple armband, they beat me to it. They had the same armbands. I was floored. I, Lily's uncle, was not the first person at Armuchee Elementary School with a Lily's Garden armband!
Small world.
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Carol Shaw Johnston
Where did they get the armband?
Did they say what kind of leukemia the grandfather has?
Terrell Shaw
They didn't say which leukemia. They got the armband from a "teacher at Model" -- Lyn, i suspect.
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