Pink

There's that saying. The one about how, when life throws you curve balls, that's when you learn who's really in your corner. If that saying is true, then, like, our corner is beyond crowded.

Since the last post, E's Alopecia continued to get worse. She decided she just wanted to shave her head. The first Saturday of April vacation, we had a shaving party and did just that. And you guys? This girl LOVES her bare head. LOVES. IT.

During this whole process, I posted one day about how E loves pink wigs. One of her teachers from last year commented that if E was going to wear pink wigs, she thought all E's friends should as well. And thus was born PINK WIG DAY. Word spread by mouth and social media and soon, Pink Wig Day was taking over our small town. The principals of both E's and B's schools emailed encouraging people to don pink wigs or other pink accessories, and people got on board with a quickness.

One of my friends called the local ABC affiliate, and they came out and interviewed me, E, and the teacher whose idea the whole thing was. We thought that was super amazing (we had no idea what was in store). That day was crazy and overwhelming, as the schools were just seas of pink heads. This town embraced our girl in a way we could never have imagined. It filled our hearts to bursting.

And then we got to watch the segment on the local news and that was so cool! And THEN, the story made it to the national ABC news page, and eventually to both the GMA home page and the UK Daily Mail home page. Our girl ended up going international. How bananas!

Every cloud has a silver lining, right? Well, then, the love and support we've received is it, for sure.