Most of you are aware the blogging community is doing a major blog hop from 22nd May to 23rd June to help cheer up fellow blogger Emma Day. Emma blogs at Crazy with Twins and has just undergone a particularly high dose of internal radiotherapy.
She was discharged from isolation on Friday and she’s back home but she cannot go within 1-2 metres of another human being. The estimated dates she’s working to for family cuddles are 5th June (her husband Jon), 11th June (her six-year-old) and 16th June (her one-year-old twins).
Emma’s positive attitude and sense of humour have been an inspiration to many. As well as the support of the blogging community, her story has already attracted a wealth of media attention thanks to Sarah at Mum of Three World. Emma’s been on BBC Radio Gloucestershire, BBC1 Points West News on the TV and she’ll be in the Gloucestershire Echo early next week. You can read all about it in this post on Emma’s blog.
You may not know this but Emma has a list of 30 ambitions she’d like to fulfill before she reaches her 30th birthday. You’ll see from the list below she’s already tried water ski-ing/wakeboarding, completed a first aid course and attended a blogging event.
I thought it would be a nice idea to revisit Emma’s list to see if there was anything else she could cross off. As it happens there is. So far Emma has raised over £400 for Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life (you can sponsor her here). She’s a finalist in the MAD Blog Awards and in the BiB Awards. She’s also completed payment plans for two of her long standing store cards.
It may come to nothing but I decided to contact a few brands to see if they could help with Emma’s ’30 before 30′ list. For the ballet and an opera; The Royal Opera House, for flying in a hot air balloon; Virgin Balloons, for going ape; Go Ape, for zorbing; Red Letter Days and for afternoon tea at The Ritz; The Ritz.
1) Watch a famous ballet
2) Go to an opera
3) Raise a substantial amount for charity
4) Buy a house
5) Try Water Skiing / Wakeboarding
6) See the Northern Lights
7) Do a first aid course
8) Learn Greek
9) Fly in a hot air balloon
10) Go paintballing
11) Go Ape (the treetop assault course)
12) Take up some form of dancing
13) Do a cake decorating course
14) Go to a blogging event
15) Walk the entire Cotswold Way (102 miles)
16) Get nominated for a Blog Award
17) Try indoor skydiving
18) Go Sphereing and/or zorbing
19) Go to the races as a customer with a full hospitality package!
20) Clear all my debts
21) Improve my credit rating from poor to excellent
22) Go on a cruise
23) Get my poetry published
24) Go to Turkey & have a Turkish Bath
25) Start my own business
26) Take the family to Disneyworld Florida
27) Go to Italy by train
28) Have afternoon tea at The Ritz
29) Go to the Moulin Rouge for dinner and show
30) Visit Las Vegas, Canada, California & cross America by train
I’ll update you when/if I receive any feedback from the brands I contacted. In the meantime, whatever the outcome, I thought now was as good a time as any to highlight Emma’s ambitions. She’s not thirty until February 2016 so there’s a bit of time before she wants to have ticked everything off.
If you have an inspirational or amusing post you’d like to share with Emma, you can add it to the Shoulder to Shoulder to Day blog hop by clicking on the link below. Please use the hashtag #S2S2D and include @crazywithtwins in any tweets. Tomorrow I’ll be passing the host baton over to Vicky at Verily, Victoria Vocalises.
