Once Sydney was diagnosed, I found out about JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation) The foundation has walks and bike rides around the nation to raise money and awareness for Type 1. It is a great opportunity to get family and friends involved with funding so that one day we will get a cure for our loved ones.
The fun part is that most teams create t-shirts and sell them or get businesses to donate and add them to the shirt for advertisement to raise money. The first year we didn't really know what we were getting into. We created a 'I wear Grey for Sydney' shirt in 2013. Since this was the year she was diagnosed, her kindergarten teacher asked her classmates to wear grey on the Friday before the walk and everyone did. It was very special to us. She took a picture of the class, and we hung it in Sydney's room.
Sydney's Team sold 123 shirts in 2014 and raised $1102.30 for JDRF. Friends and family help towards our outcome but donating themselves and some get donations from their friends and family. Our walk shirt this year was special. The theme for the walk was Superheros. I came up with an idea and asked our art teacher if he could draw Sydney as a Superhero. He said sure. He did an amazing job. We had Sydney on the first of the shirt, and the superhero saying on the back.
Our JDRF East TN chapter has been chosen to do a JDRF One walk in 2015. So they do not have a specific theme, but the saying "I am the ______ type." We chose to do the "I am the educating type" considering I am a teacher and most of our support is from teachers. I created the shirt with intentions of teaching people about the symptoms of Type 1 Diabetes. The thought was that when you are our shopping, people read your shirt, maybe someone reading it has a kid with symptoms and it would help one kid be diagnosed before DKA. Sydney's shirt won 2nd place in our local walk for design.
This year's t-shirt design too me awhile to come up with. I wanted something unique something special and I was finally able to create it. I am super excited with the way it turned out. We did not ask for this lifestyle, no one ever would. But you can't throw in the towel because you got dealt a bad hand. You do the best you can with what you have.
The fun part is that most teams create t-shirts and sell them or get businesses to donate and add them to the shirt for advertisement to raise money. The first year we didn't really know what we were getting into. We created a 'I wear Grey for Sydney' shirt in 2013. Since this was the year she was diagnosed, her kindergarten teacher asked her classmates to wear grey on the Friday before the walk and everyone did. It was very special to us. She took a picture of the class, and we hung it in Sydney's room.
Sydney's Team sold 123 shirts in 2014 and raised $1102.30 for JDRF. Friends and family help towards our outcome but donating themselves and some get donations from their friends and family. Our walk shirt this year was special. The theme for the walk was Superheros. I came up with an idea and asked our art teacher if he could draw Sydney as a Superhero. He said sure. He did an amazing job. We had Sydney on the first of the shirt, and the superhero saying on the back.
Our JDRF East TN chapter has been chosen to do a JDRF One walk in 2015. So they do not have a specific theme, but the saying "I am the ______ type." We chose to do the "I am the educating type" considering I am a teacher and most of our support is from teachers. I created the shirt with intentions of teaching people about the symptoms of Type 1 Diabetes. The thought was that when you are our shopping, people read your shirt, maybe someone reading it has a kid with symptoms and it would help one kid be diagnosed before DKA. Sydney's shirt won 2nd place in our local walk for design.
This year's t-shirt design too me awhile to come up with. I wanted something unique something special and I was finally able to create it. I am super excited with the way it turned out. We did not ask for this lifestyle, no one ever would. But you can't throw in the towel because you got dealt a bad hand. You do the best you can with what you have.
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