Relay for Life News Segment

Posted by Sammy on Apr 16th, 2010 | 3 comments

This isn’t the best video, but its better than nothing. I wanted to get the video up quickly. Promise to get pictures up this weekend.

Never in million years

Posted by Sammy on Apr 15th, 2010 | 3 comments

Gosh I feel like those 4 words define my life right now. Ya know, start off every sentence with those 4 words and just add whatever you want to it, and that’s ME. Let’s see….

Never in a million years….

….would I have thought I’d be a widow at 30
….would I have thought I wouldn’t grow old with Gary
….would I have thought that I’d be forced to raise Mikey on my own
….would I have thought that I’d be an advocate for raising money for finding a cure to cancer

I seriously could go on and on. But that’s not the real purpose of this post. Today I had another one of my “Never in a million years” moments. As I stated in a previous post, Mikey’s daycare is raising money for my Relay for Life team. Well today when I got to work after dropping Mikey off I got a call from daycare. Apparently another mom wanted to join my Relay team and had some questions for me so they wanted to make sure I was ok with them giving out my number, which I was. Well they then stated that one of the news stations was coming out tomorrow morning to do a story on our fundraiser! How freaking cool is that.

NEVER in a million years would Gary or I have thought that Mikey’s daycare would be doing any kind of fundraiser like this for my Relay team. Let alone, we’d never ever think that a news station would even care about something like this. I mean there is a pretty good possibility that Gary’s name and story is going to get on the news. How awesome is that!?!?!?? HIS STORY!

I’m so excited to go to daycare tomorrow morning to see all of the wonderful banners decorated. I’m bringing my fancy shmancy camera to take pics so that I can post them here. I plan on finding out the details of when the news plans on airing our segment so that I can somehow get that on video so that I can post that on my blog too.

So yeah, never in a millions year, that’s the story of my life.

Countdown to Relay!

Posted by Sammy on Apr 12th, 2010 | 3 comments

We’ve got T-minus 12 days until our first Relay for Life event as team Gary’s Guardian Angels. I’m super excited about the event for many reasons. I would have loved to have Gary walking with us, but I know that he’ll be there in spirit. He would have loved to walk that first lap with the survivors, I know he’ll be walking it in spirit. But I’ll be proudly walking with Mikey for as long as he’ll tolerate it

One thing that I’m very excited about is a fundraiser that Mikey’s daycare is doing for our team. On Friday afternoon all of the kids were sent home with a letter from Mikey telling everyone about our story. It was very personal and very touching. It was perfect. Not many parents know what happend to us, but most of the teachers do know. The fundraiser that they are doing is turning into a competition between the classes, its rather funny walking into a classroom and they have their work covered up. Basically each class is decorating a flag that will be silent auctioned this Friday. I promise to take pics on Friday and will post them here so that you all can see the fabulous work. I’m especially excited about Mikey’s class’ banner because they are having something special on there just for Mikey. When his teacher showed it to me today I got all choked up. It’s just so very thoughtful. I know Gary would be completely floored to know that Mikey’s daycare is doing this in his honor.

If you haven’t done so already, I’m still not done collecting money Even if all you can spare is $1, realize that whatever you can give makes a HUGE difference. To me its important that Mikey never has to hear that someone he loves has cancer EVER again. So I’ve vowed to help raise as much money as I can to make that possible. You can donate by clicking on this link, please feel free to pass this along to everyone you know Donate Here

June 4th, 2009 SUCKED!!!

Posted by Sammy on Jun 5th, 2009 | no comments

Let’s just say that I probably should have stayed in today given the fact that as soon as I walked out the door to put stuff in my car I had seen about 10 unmarked cop cars that turned out to be from the Sheriff’s office. Low and behold they were going in and out of our immediate neighbor’s home. I had seen one guy take in 3 file boxes too, that my guess were for some form of evidence. Ummm yeah very very interesting.

I get to work and give Mikey some Tylenol because the old 2yr molar’s are kicking his ass and causing him to be Mr. CrankyPants. We get to daycare and he throws a hissy fit. He’s NEVER done this. He ends up hitting me 3 times and I ended up putting him in a semi time-out to cool off. But he just ended up crying the entire time. He then gave me a hug and wouldn’t leave my side. Refused to play, refused to eat, up until his teacher presented his food and he realized “Hey I really am hungry”. I had to sit there and watch him eat because he didn’t want me to leave. Finally he got tired of me that he let me make my escape.

As if that wasn’t a good enough start. I get a phone call from my boss praising me on a report I did for him. Then he proceeded to tell me that he’s working to get our team to our Miramar office which is literally 5 minutes from our home. It would be a great move for me. Not so great for others that have a short commute currently. But for someone like me its GREAT. Only catch….I need to find a new daycare for Mikey. So since it was sounding like this move would happen sooner rather than later I immediately started calling daycare to find out if a) they had a spot for Mikey and b) how much are we talking.

So armed with a list of 6 daycares I left the office this afternoon in hopes of driving to 3 of them to scout them out and see if its even worth going back tomorrow for a tour but there were other plans for me. I picked up Mikey from daycare and got onto the road. Before I even hit the interstate ramp an ass was holding his horn down because I refused to go while there was traffic coming (who had the right of way might I add). He continued to hold down his horn after I turned and after he passed me. He was a complete douche bag and may kharma bite him in the ass in a big fat way!

As if that wasn’t enough. I get onto I-95 and it was stop and go traffic, my all time favorite. I was stopped because the guy in front of me was stopped. All of a sudden I hear a loud SCREECH and them as I looked up at my rearview mirror I not only hear but I feel a big BAM. The freaking guy rearended me!!!!! Thankfully the damage isn’t that bad. I still got a police report, although it doesn’t really look like one. Got home and Gary looked at the bumper and said the damage wasn’t that bad. I do have this weird pain in my lower back but I’m hoping its all in my head. If its bothering me in the morning I’ll call up my chiro and get in tomorrow.

So yeah that was MY June 4th, 2009. Hope YOU managed to have had a better day than ME