Make-A-Wish Ball.. What a night...

Dress up time

OMG....Polly and Waz.....!

Exactly 2 years and 5 months... on the exact same day, "Friday the 13th", at 10.03pm, we told Owen that he had Leukaemia. (He remembers looking at the clock and wondering why we had been crying as we explained why we were in Emergency at Royal Children's hospital). The Doctor who told us said that we could wait and let him know later when we were ready. We said that Owen would read our body language in a instant and know something was up. We had to be truthful..

Adam, Owen, Grant and Joel..

Tonight it was very very different. We were invited to the 20th Anniversary Charity Dinner of Bayside Volunteer Branch of Make-A-Wish. Owen was to be presented with his wish and we thought that this would be pretty cool as we could publicly say thank you. It was such a fantastic night... In Owen's words "The best night of his life". Pretty cool as he has already had a few "best of's" in his 11 years. The theme was 1920's so we managed to organise clothing and dressed up. The boys loved it. "Hey Joel, I feel like a man" said Owen as they admired themselves in the mirror.

Our Fun tablemates...Alisha and Frank

We sat down and the night started. Introductions were made and everyone in the room was told that the 2 spare seats on our table were for some special people that we had met previously. It was Polly and Waz, winners of The Block last year.They had flown down from Sydney and Queensland to attend the Logies (which "The Block" won) and came to sit on our table and catch up. A complete surprise....I watched Owen trembling in his seat as they were announced and I told him to go and give them a hug. He sprinted out of his chair and across the dance floor and embraced them them both in absolute joy... Funny about that term "Priceless"... This was one of those moments.. It was a night of fun, and lots of laughs and smiles.
Owen was presented with his wish and he hopped up on the stage and gave a beautiful thank you speech giving everyone an insight to his life and his delightful positive energy. Then Lee followed with her thank you. She did beautifully and touched many souls that night. Heartfelt and inspiring. A mothers story... that produced many tears. Both had plenty of hugs from lots of people afterwards.

Finally an Huge Thank you again to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.. The love and support in the room was genuine and inspiring, and it was wonderful to be thanked for coming along and telling our story. We cannot believe the generosity of Make-A-Wish and that we are going overseas with our children on a big adventure...
We cannot express what this trip will mean to our family.
Owen is madly planning...