Last spring, my younger son graduated from 5th grade. The 5th grade awards night included recognition of all the clubs, academic award winners, attendance awards, character awards, and citizenship and teacher awards. Through an hour and a half of awards, the same kids kept standing...
We're more than halfway through Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, and no doubt your news feed has been flooded with stories of brave kids fighting cancer.
I believe there's another story begging to be told. It's about brave kids, too. They're cancer's forgotten heroes.
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Last year, I read a book by Bob Goff called Love Does. Every time I came to the end of a chapter I found myself smiling—no, I was beaming. His words carried me to faraway places, to an unknown land of DOERS. In a chapter,...
This Wednesday, Forever We has the honor and the pleasure of presenting our cause to 850 social entrepreneurs at the Plywood Presents Conference. We're excited to share the story of Forever We, because although where we've come from is important, where we're going is even...
For fun, I often ask kids if they'd rather be rich or they'd rather be famous. Almost unanimously, the kids want fame over fortune. There is no right answer to this question. I think it's probably normal to glorify the people we read about in...
We've had several requests for people to view our newsletter who currently don't subscribe to our newsletter list. Of course, subscribing is easy, which you can do here. But for those that would like to view a copy of our August newsletter. Click here to read...
In August, Forever We is promoting 31 days of Kindness. So we've created a little calendar with suggestions for you to help make the world a kinder place.
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I invited a stranger into my house yesterday.
Not something I would normally do, but just last week I was complaining to my husband about our house being miles and miles from the entrance to our neighborhood. Getting to our house involves navigating multiple stop signs...
We follow our friend, Mary Elizabeth’s, Facebook page. You might remember her from the Forever We video we have on our website. Mary Elizabeth was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia in April of 2014. Since then, she’s undergone three bone marrow transplants and relapsed twice....
When American Girl debuted its American Girls of Today doll more than two decades ago, real American girls clamored to get one. With customizable skin, hair, and eye color, she quickly became the “sister we never we had.” In 2006 the product line was renamed Just...