Purple Day

Pray for Jared

Currently, my friend's young adult son is in the hospital in Vancouver undergoing the same test as Mason recently did. He's already been in for a week without any seizures. Please, please, please, pray that he will have some! And pray that he will be able to have brain surgery for the seizures.

Thanks!

Mason's Purple Potty Birthday

You are invited to our Purple Potty Birthday Party!

Several things are happening at once, so we are combining it into ONE open house party.

~ Purple Day for Epilepsy Awareness (March 26)

~ Mason's 11th birthday (March 29)

~ Mason is toilet trained! (March 2010!)

~ God is GOOD! (All the Time!)

- We are officially celebrating something we never thought we would! Mason is a 'big boy' now! The Toilet Training Mission has been a success! We have had the help of many people, especially his teacher and TA's at school who started working on toilet training Mason long before I did.

You have followed our journey by reading (some?) of my emails and maybe even praying for us. So it's time to mark this huge milestone with us!

- We heard about Purple Day last year and helped with epilepsy awareness. So our party will have a purple theme.

here are a couple of facts:

~ Each day in Canada, an average of 42 people learn that they have epilepsy.

~ Each year an average of 15,500 people learn that they have epilepsy; 44% are diagnosed before the age of 5, 55% before the age of 10, 75-85% before age 18 and 1% of children will have recurrent seizures before age 14. 1.3% are over the age of 60. This means that about 60% of new patients are young children and senior citizens.

more: http://www.epilepsy.ca/eng/content/sheet.html

- Mason is having another birthday! 11 WOW. He does NOT need gifts, (unless you want to buy him a Wii system! LOL he loved the Mario 2010 ski game when he was in the hospital! I was amazed at how well he did!) .... but if you would like to bring him something, bring a birthday candle or any kind of candle. Purple if you can find it :) One of his favorite things is singing happy birthday to himself, with us as his accompanying choir and blowing out the candles.

WHO: Anyone who knows Mason or our family. Anyone who has been following his story, even if they don't know him yet. Those who don't know us, but may have Epilepsy or have a family member with Epilepsy. Or those who want to become more 'Aware' of Epilepsy.

WHEN: Friday, March 26, 6 to 9ish pm drop in any time stay for a bit or stay longer!

WHERE: #2 - 2525 Yale Court, Abbotsford, BC click here for map (we moved last summer)

There is some parking inside our townhouse complex, but you can also park on the street/cul de sac. You cannot park in the strip mall parking lot. You might be able to park in the Great West Fitness parking lot right across the street from our place. but there are not any 'no parking' signs. But that is 'park at your own risk ' - I don't know for sure if it's safe.

If our gate is locked, use the buzzer system under the roof next to the gate. Or call us and we can open it from our place: 604-854-1456 (gate is open until 7:15 or so)

WEAR PURPLE!!!

Shirley

(if you can, let me know if you're coming. Otherwise, just show up ;)