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Will you help me?
- Sep 3, 2008 at 4:22 PM
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Save Lids to Save Lives: Shell's Team<< Click Here to help
Three things that make me feel better: My friends, getting email, and journaling. Well, my Friends, here is a journal about getting email!
So early this morning, I get this message from CM , first off telling me I am exceptional (everyone likes to hear that), and secondly offering me the opportunity to get involved with their new influencer program. All my friends know that I jump at the chance to be an influencer. I have carted away a ton of free stuff that my family just loves. I am always quite grateful to get the chance to try things I wouldn’t have been able to afford for my son and of course I LOVE to write ( and write and write) about my opinion. This particular program is different though. They aren’t giving me something to try. In light of Breast Cancer Awareness month in October, they are asking me to help. I have been asked to help contribute to the Save Lids to Save Lives drive for Yoplait.
Last Christmas I was talking with my niece. She told me that her best friend had been diagnosed with breast cancer. That she had had a double mastectomy and that they had found new grey areas in her lungs that were probably cancerous as well. This young woman, was 32 years old and had been fighting cancer for years. She has two little girls who will in all likely hood grow up without a mother. That is just plain wrong on a cosmic level. The famous circle of life tells us that parents die and children go on, but common sense tells us that children need their mothers.
Just playing one of the scavenger hunt games here at CafeMom, one can flit about the Café and find hundreds of women whose lives have been touched by breast cancer. Everyday journals are posted for all to read about the daily struggles with it. Look in your favorite group. There will be at least one mom who posts regularly with a breast cancer signature. Do a search for breast cancer and you will pull up 500+ posts on it. I honestly can’t think of a better place to promote the health of women, or of mothers. To save the life of a single woman is a wondrous thing. To give a child the gift of having her mother to lean on for the rest of her childhood, is a miracle.
CafeMom has shown an amazing amount of sisterhood in the past two years. For all of our bickering and major drama fests, when it comes down to it, differing opinions are left at the keyboard when the call to get behind a mom in need is sounded. This project is no different.
Think of all the moms who have this cloud hanging over their lives. How many of them do you actually know? Or come in contact with every day?
Really think about it.
The 1.2 million women who are CafeMom members, are a FORCE of Nature.
Yoplait has set up this drive with the idea that they will donate $1.5 million to
Susan G Komen for the Cure. They will donate $.10 per special lid turned in during this drive. That breaks down to 13 lids for each of us. 13 cups of yummy yogurt that our kids will probably scarf down before we get to them, and the stamps to turn them in. $1.5 million seems like an astronomical amount of money to a mom who doesn’t know if rent is getting paid this month. Break it down though, and suddenly this project doesn’t sound so undoable. It also sends a message to Corporate America that Motherhood is a FORCE to be reckoned with.
Yeah, I want to be a part of this. Who wants to help?
Save Lids to Save Lives: Shell's Team<< Click Here to help
Comments:
I wanna help! Tell me what i gotta do and its done!
Sign me up, Babe!!!
Wonderful!
WOULD LOVE TO HELP. WERE DO WEW SEND THE LIDS?
So you just want us to send the lids in on our own? I always do, But . . . . . Would it help if we all sent them to a central location; then had them sent in under the name CaféMom ? Maybe that is something else you could set up??
Hi, you're a natural born writer! I personally have not been affected by this awful disease, but I have tons of friends that are fighting, quite literally for their lives. So, after alot of soul searching I decided to use my talent as a beader to do my part. I am making unique cancer awareness bracelets, custom made in every color (for the different kinds of cancers) and autism (puzzle piece). I'm selling them for $35 and will donate $10 from every sale to the Susan G. Komen foundation or whichever foundation the order is fulfilling. Some have told me that this is a very generous donation amount and obviously in these tough times yeah, I would love to keep the whole amount. But seriously, I just lost a very dear friend to lung cancer and I'm sick of just sitting around doing nothing. So, my pledge is to make these bracelets to serve the wearer as a reminder and support 
of their loved ones. Thank you.
Fantastic post! Thanks!
Good luck to you and your team....nice post beauty queen!
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I am so glad they chose you, I can think of no one better! You are one of the best writers on this site, in my opinion. And of course I would love to help. I have a long history of this horrible disease in my family....including my mother, who thankfully is doing great. Count me in!
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