October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.  I never remember this until I start to notice all the pink everywhere.  I should remember this, though, as breast cancer runs in my family.  My grandmother on my mom’s side had breast cancer as well as two of her daughters…so far.  This means that my mother is at risk as well as her other sister.

I remember when I was young and visiting my grandparent’s house after my grandmother died.  We were going through her belongings and dividing them up between the children and grandchildren.  I distinctly remember seeing the breast inserts she used to wear after she had her mastectomy (I don’t know if it was just one or both that were removed).  I didn’t quite understand at that age what they were, but now I do.  To have your breasts removed would be a very difficult thing to live with.  They are a part of your identity as a woman.  My grandma, my aunts and my mother are inspirations for me with the trials that they have gone through or may possibly have to go through with this cancer.

About 3 years ago, my husband’s car died.  Good riddance.  Instead of having it hauled to a junkyard where it would sit for eternity, we donated it.  It wasn’t worth much, but at least the organization could get a little bit of money out of it.  I can’t remember where we donated it to, but Cars For Breast Cancer looks like what we may have done.

I was lead to a site by my husband called Tweets For Boobs.  They are an online company that, when you add #tweetsforboobs to any of your tweets through the month of October, you are pledging $1 to the Susan G. Komen Foundation.  All you have to do is go to their website, follow them on Twitter (so they can DM you your total) and start tweeting.

This money is going to a great cause and it is nice to see so many ways that we can donate.  It is only one month out of the year and it is only $1 for any tweet where you use that hashtag (#tweetsforboobs).  If every one of my Twitter followers did this just once, we would donate over $1,000.  Let’s do this!