9 days to go til launch

Link: 9 days to go til launch

Thanks to Yelp Melbourne for pumping up our tyres and inviting their huge community down to Fed Square next Friday Feb 15th for our launch party. Will you be there?  Come down, wear pink and show your support for Samuel as he head off on his epic adventure.

9 days to go til launch.

We are in The Aussie Word!

The Aussie Word has been supporting us online and just got a blog-interview with me (Sam)!

They’ve been tweeting about us too so big salute to them!

Read the blog here.

Donations How-To

I’ve been crazy to start this but to have gone so far wouldn’t have happened without generous donations and support from everyone. Big or small!

 

Though I’ve yet to get my uni-cycling grove on (14 days to go!!), donations have now opened so please support us!

 

ONLINE loveyoursister.org

 

IN PERSON   At any Bendigo Bank branch

 

VIA PHONE   1300 73 66 77 (9am - 5pm AEST)

Accepting Mastercard, Visa and American Express

 

CHEQUE OR MONEY ORDER

Made payable to “Garvan Research Foundation - LYS” and free postal to 

Love Your Sister

c/o Garvan Research Foundation

Reply Paid 68593

DARLINGHURST NSW 2010

 

DIRECT DEPOSIT

BSB:  082 057  Account: 133 117 2929

Garvan Research Foundation - Love Your Sister account

*Please use your name as ID for this deposit. 

All donations $2 and over are fully tax deductible

LYS Diaries: 24th - 28th January

Samuel here!

We are a home-grow, grass roots-type event. We’ve got no slick event management company running the show. We’ve got a meager operating budget and we run it all pretty much on sheer willpower and the generosity of others. In-house, we refer to ourselves as ‘The Little Engine That Could’.

Which is why we feel so darn lucky to have secured a national launch. Our two goals are lofty at the very least. 1) Remind every mum in the land to be breast aware. 2) Raise a mill. These are extremely hard to achieve without a national launch.

So kudos to Connie for coming up with a concept so unique and hat’s off to The Project, New Idea, and Today for believing in Love Your Sister. (Actually, special mention to New Idea for donating $2000 to the cause – we didn’t ask). Connie and I have been flitting around doing interviews and shoots this week, which has been fun.

It’s becoming another level of real again. But the more real it gets, the more abstract it gets as well, strangely. I’m only just starting to wrap my head around how truly bizarre what we’re attempting actually is.

LYS Diaries: 24th - 28th January Part 2

The school holidays are nearly over, I can’t believe it, Willoughby will be going into grade one and Hamilton will be starting school. When I was first diagnosed I didn’t think I’d get to see Willoughby start school  and now, two and a half years later, I am only a week away from seeing my youngest, Hamilton start as well. Wonders will never cease. I am so glad I get to share these important milestones with my boys.

We made pancakes the other day and a little droplet shaped like a heart fell in the pan. Willoughby decided straight away that the heart pancake should be for Uncle Sammy, how cute.

After that he wanted to make a big heart pancake for Uncle Sammy to give him energy for his big unicycle ride. This is my feeble attempt….

Hamilton and Willoughby all clean after their bath, tucking into a pikelet before story time.

When Sam and I were kids, we didn’t have a TV or computer games, so we used to play a lot of board games. We loved it. We played games like Othello, Stratego, checkers, cluedo and monopoly nearly every day. I realised last week that my boys are getting old enough to move on from snakes and ladders and start playing some older games. So this week we played Build-a-Beetle, Connect Four and Othello. I loved it and they did too. Here we are after a game of build the beetle. Willoughby named all the beetles we made; amongst them were names such as Speedy, Reddy, Cutey and Fire.