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Avalynn's Hope Foundation

Helping Families of Medically Fragile & Disabled Children
Get the Support & Resources They Need All of us have an Avalynn in our lives.

Avalynn’s Hope Foundation was created in memory of Avalynn Wallace, daughter of Nicole and Louie Wallace, to provide support and resources for families with medically fragile and disabled children. Avalynn was diagnosed with AML leukemia in December 2016, at the age of four. For the next three years, she went through grueling treatment to overcome the cancer; in October 2019, at the age of seven,

Avalynn lost the battle and was called to Heaven. Avalynn was a beautiful soul who captured the hearts of thousands in her community and beyond with her joyful nature, infectious laugh, and wisdom years beyond her age. To continue her legacy, Nicole and Louie founded Avalynn’s Hope Foundation an independent 501(3) organization endeavoring to help families who are experiencing medical tragedies their lives and need friendship, support, and help. What We Do
Avalynn’s Hope has three primary objectives:

- Recreation: To provide a recreational park and playground (Avie’s Place) that’s accessible to children and adults of all capabilities and physical impairments, as well as resources for foundations that offer recreational activities for families of medically fragile and disabled children.

- Resources: To provide resources and guidance for families of medically fragile and disabled children, including help navigating the medical system, financial assistance, family support,

- Support: To provide funding and advocacy for cancer and disabilities research, as well as establish partnerships with like-minded nonprofit organizations. They may be your child, your niece or nephew, or even the child of a friend or co-worker. Together we can make a difference in the lives of medically fragile and disabled children and their families. Visit www.avalynnshope.org

02/06/2026

Love shows up in practical ways.

When a family is navigating a medical journey, the stress is immense—emotionally, logistically, and financially. We often ask, “”How can I help?”” or say, “”Let me know what I can do,”” but for a family in crisis, the best way to support them is to take the guesswork off their plate.

Love is tangible.
It looks like:

Gas cards for hospital trips.
Grocery cards for families balancing bedside visits and home life.
Helping with rent or car payments to create breathing room.
Providing meals or lodging during long recoveries.
Simply listening.
Don’t wait for them to ask. Pick one of these acts of hope today and bridge the gap for a family that needs to feel they aren’t alone. Together, we can provide the stability they need to focus on what matters most: their child.

Join us in bringing light to families walking the unimaginable path. Learn how you can make a direct impact at the link in our bio.

HopeLivesHere

01/06/2026

A needed reminder of being a mom to a child with leukemia or any childhood disease is a journey full of love, courage, and unimaginable strength. But I’ve learned that to truly show up for my child, I have to also take care of myself.

Here’s what helped me care for myself during the hardest days:

Peaceful solo walks
Shopping
Movies
Hair & nails
Facials & massages
Talking to a counselor
Phone calls and Video Chats with Family and Friends
Writing a blog or Facebook updates
Time with my other kids
Quiet moments with my sick child
Date nights
Girls’ nights
Going out for dinner

Self-care isn’t selfish, it’s survival. If you’re in the middle of this fight, I see you. You deserve rest, joy, and healing too.

30/05/2026

Big day yesterday

Introducing... Serenity Wallace

29/05/2026

What a day. What a holy, emotional, overwhelming day.

We walked into that courtroom and it was filled to the brim with people. Family. Friends. Supporters. Love. So much love. People standing in hallways, squeezed into seats, tears in their eyes, celebrating a little girl finally getting permanence, belonging, and a forever family.

After everything she has walked through, today she no longer has to wonder where she is going to sleep. She never has to wonder if she will be moved again, forgotten again, rejected again, or left behind again.

Today she became a Wallace.
Forever.

There are moments in life you never forget and today will be one of them for all of us. Watching that judge make it official felt heavy in the best way. Sacred. Final. Healing.

This was never part of our original plan. But sometimes Jesus steps into your life and asks you to do something and deep in your spirit you know there is no way to say no to Him.

Jesus loves His children deeply. He pursues the forgotten, the neglected, the hurt, and the abandoned. He calls us to make room. To bring in the orphan. To love sacrificially. To open our homes, our hearts, and our lives even when it costs us something.

And this yes cost us something.
But she is worth it.

Today was not just adoption papers being signed. It was restoration. It was belonging. It was family. It was heaven touching earth in the middle of a courtroom.

Happy Adoption Day Serenity Faye Marie Wallace.
You are wanted.
You are chosen.
You are deeply loved.
And you are finally home.

27/05/2026

Saying Yes isn’t always easy...

I want to be honest about this journey because saying yes to Jesus is beautiful… but it is also costly.

Taking Serenity in was not easy. It was not simple. It was not some picture perfect story tied up with a bow.

It came with sacrifice. Surrender. Hard days. Painful days. Exhausting days. Days where we questioned if we were enough for this assignment. Days where grief collided with healing. Days where our own children struggled with understanding why we would bring another daughter into our home after losing Avie.

And honestly, I understood their questions because I had them too.

There were moments this hurt so deeply I thought my heart could not stretch anymore.

But following Jesus has never been about comfort. It has never been about choosing only what feels easy, safe, or convenient. Jesus said pick up your cross and follow Him. Sometimes obedience feels lonely. Sometimes it goes against the grain. Sometimes it hurts.

But peace lives there too.
A peace you cannot explain.
A satisfaction in your soul that only comes from obedience.

One day I was talking to one of my daughters who was struggling to understand our yes to this journey. And I told her this:

“When we stand before God one day and give an account for our lives, what are we going to say? That it was too hard? That we did not want to? That it hurt too much? And because of that we left her out there to be lost, rejected, moved around, and raised by a broken system?”

No.
We could not do that.

We could not leave her to the wolves. We could not leave her abandoned to repeat cycles of hurt and rejection.

So we said yes.
And this yes changed all of us.

Serenity is not just a child we’re adopting. She is a daughter God entrusted to us. A child worthy of love, safety, consistency, and belonging.

26/05/2026

They’re little.
They may not have the words to speak up yet. That’s why you have to be their voice.

One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned is this: parental advocacy matters.

Doctors may have different opinions, different experience, and different approaches. We also have intuition, you should always seek all the answers.

3 questions we always asked:

Why this way?
Is this the only way?
What are all our options?

25/05/2026

Happy Birthday Serenity...

Happy 13th Birthday to our beautiful niece, soon to be daughter, Serenity Faye Marie Wallace.

Watching you grow this past season has been such a gift. The changes we have seen in you, your growth, your kindness, your personality, your strength, and most of all your love for Jesus has been incredible to witness. You bring so much joy, laughter, love, and light into every room you walk into.

We are so proud of the young woman you are becoming and so thankful God brought you into our lives in such a special way. We cannot wait for all the birthdays still to come, all the memories we will make together, and all the beautiful things God has ahead for your life.

Happy Birthday Serenity. You are deeply loved, celebrated, and cherished beyond words.

21/05/2026

8 Years Ago, We posted this May 21, 2018

“Oh man. Today was a doozy....it's been a hard day. Mostly because we met with the stem cell team today to sign all the consents and go over every. single. detail. of the upcoming transplant, pre and post process. Stress and sadness has hung onto us like a cloud. It's been tough. A few tears have been shed. But, one thing it has done has gotten us fired up to pray, and pray hard. We are facing the den of lions, being thrown in a fire, and have a sense of what Jesus felt in the garden, or rather, what the Father felt... It's straight agonizing to say the least.

I want to share some of the side effects to give you a sense of what to pray against. The common ones we've seen before are nausea, fevers, tiredness. What we haven't seen before is a complication with the liver, painful ulcers in the throat, down the esophagus and into re**um, kidney function could be compromised...

Long term other cancers can occur, infertility ( Extremely high risk of this), graft vs. Host Disease, graft rejection( failure), stunted growth, among other things.

Now, we know she doesn't have to experience any of these things and we pray she won't.

The Dr. is optimistic about our donor. She was able to find a 10/10 perfect match and then optimize the match even further (make even more deeper matching) to give Avalynn the best chance at engraftment (transplant sticking). The donor also agreed to go a step further and give samples of actual bone marrow, which she doesn't have to do.

But this is the time to pray. Pray for protection and perfection. Pray against the odds. That she would beat the odds and come out victorious without those horrible side effects. Didn't Daniel go into the lion's den, unscathed? Yep. She can too. We need strength to endure this process. To be able to hand our baby over to what seems like such an evil and gruesome situation....in an effort to save her life. And be able to see the Lord and thank Him for His goodness. There's a storm a-brewing....and those clouds look scary and fierce, but we don't have to be afraid, Jesus is on the boat with us.

Thank you for your support.
Blessings
Louie and nicole Wallace

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