Ruby Mae Wish Day 18th March
March 18 marks Ruby’s birthday and this year she would have turned 6. Ruby unexpectedly passed away not long after her 4th birthday in April 2022.
We will forever wonder what presents she would have asked for, which friends she would have invited to her party, what sort of cake she would have blown the 6 candles from and what her birthday wish would have been… all the endless unknowns has forged the path for Rubys Mae’s Wish and the idea to honor Ruby’s kind and giving spirit. As Ruby always told everyone that she wanted to be a doctor or a mermaid, the direction of the charity was an easy choice to help keep her dreams live on. Ruby Mae’s Wish main objectives are to raise funds for Childrens Hospitals to purchase vital medical equipment and fund to crucial education days. Through Ruby Mae’s Wish and the generosity of sponsors we have also created an initiative of gifting Care Packs to parents who find themselves with a sick or injured child needing to be retrieved unexpectedly for urgent medical care.
The idea of Ruby Mae Day came from a Facebook comment from a follower that “Ruby Mae Day” was a day this particular lady wore her purple shirt purchased via the website (www.rubymaeswish.com.au), we loved the idea instantly and thought that there was no other day more fitting to hold an annual Ruby Mae Day other than her birthday – March 18. Thanks to a Facebook comment RUBY MAE DAY was started and has become something we could have never imagined!
Ruby Mae Day will forever more be on March 18 and we can only hope the day will be filled with flowers, cakes, LOTS of PURPLE, bubbles, LEGO, random acts of kindness, dance parties, karaoke and anything and everything that Ruby loved doing. If we cannot celebrate with Ruby, we will celebrate hard for her.
The support from friends, family, businesses, communities, workplace morning tea rooms, schools, individuals, strangers and more is indescribable. We are non-stop hearing and receiving messages from across Australia about what people have planned for the day. We are beyond blown away by the support of our local and surrounding communities who have literally covered their towns in purple and have gotten behind Ruby Mae Day! The community’s kindness, generosity, support and passion is what helps keeps us going. It means the world to us that Ruby touched so many lives and this is shown by the amount of support this kind and caring girls dreams have on so many people.
We will never be able to express the gratitude and appreciation we have for each and every one of you that has made any kind of effort for RUBY MAE DAY, whether it be wearing purple socks to work, baking cupcakes, putting a purple ribbon in your daughter's hair, face painting, decking your business out in purple for the day/week, raising funds, holding a muffty day at your local school, sending us a message, thinking about us, mentioning/tagging us nothing has gone unnoticed and we will never be able to put into words the admiration we have for you all for all your support.
Without you all and your continued support Ruby Mae’s Wish would not be what it is today. We have achieved so much to be proud of since the charity has been established and by pledging to support RUBY MAE DAY you have help us continue to keep Ruby’s spirit and caring nature alive through helping others. To date Ruby Mae’s Wish has gifted 70 Care Packs across NSW and QLD, we have donated $8990 worth of equipment to John Hunter Children’s Hospital Paediatric Intensive Care Unit and in early March held our the first education day in Ruby’s honor for Hunter New England Health valued at $10k for Paediatric Renal Education.
We miss Ruby more and more every day but now live by a famous Winnie the Pooh motto of “how lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard”.
March 18 – forever more Ruby May Day