Lucky stars

I think you would be perfect for the job working with kinder kids and elderly and they would be very pleased to have such an experienced volunteer. You can always approach your local schools and volunteer to work with kids, we have mums come in for reading, writing, maths groups, garden work and kitchen work as we are a Stephanie Alexander kitchen garden school. I have never knocked back help. The school may ask you to get a card for clearance purposes though in Queensland it is a blue card. All people working in our schools even volunteers need to have one if they don;t have their own child in that particular school.

I love your fundraising idea. Before I left school this year we had a Pink celebration day and the whole school wore pink and donated a coin to go to the McGrath foundation, we had a sausage sizzle with all meat from our local butcher donated and bread from our bakery donated, we had pink activities, my breast care nurse came out and handed out bags to mums who came along, the kids made headbands, wands, had pink ribbons face painted on made cupcakes and biscuits blew bubbles and had the most amazing day. The local bakery made me a cake with pink licorice straps in the shape of our ribbon and we cut it and shared it with everyone. I usually organise our celebration days and this time everyone else organised it and I was allowed to float through the day and check everything out. It was very very special, so it is so easy for me to give back now when i feel up to it.

I will post pictures on here when i work out how to do it. Glad you like the idea of the place cards, hopefully the guests won't think they are too cheesy and they will like them. Your cook book sounds awesome let me know how I can purchase one from you, would love to do that. I love cookbooks written by real people as their recipes actually work.

I had my fourth chemo today and am feeling okay a little sore they had some trouble acessing my port today so that is bruised and I am flying high on six dex I actually missed two yesterday and they gave me extra today in my drip so now i have had six. but the good news is they gave me a sleeping tablet to offset the dex. I managed 2 hours sleep last night and mad an awesome batch of chocolate cupcakes with delicous choc frosting. Now almost gone thanks to one of my princesses.

I would give the boob cast a crack like your idea of using your prothesis, it is worth a shot, I found my kit on line and just looked up pregnancy casting kits and they were great, don't be afraid to ask questions.

Anyways hope you had an amazing day Helen. best wishes and love Sue