Aaron's Day

21/02/2026

We are standing with you Tessa 💛
You are so beautiful and brave. We need to get you this treatment! Please follow, donate or share to help to save a life.

17/02/2026

We’re ready Ed Sheeran! 🧡

If you wanted to stop by at Hotel Commonwealth we’ll welcome you with open arms!

Come see us right now at the Hotel Commonwealth carpark!

Someone will be walking away today with a trip to see Ed live on his Loop tour in Toronto! All thanks to Pet Mince Direct!🎵

17/02/2026

Hey Ed Sheeran

Aaron's sister is hanging out here to meet you and sign this photo for her...

You coming?

Hotel Commonwealth
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11/02/2026

My only Valentine's from my baby 💞 I love you buddy. You were so proud of your craft and you did such a good job.

30/01/2026

28/01/2026

5 months my beautiful boy. It feels so much longer than that and like it just happened at the same time.

BearHands - Hand & Feet Memories created these beautiful castings when your body was being looked after. The process was beautiful and yet heartbreaking. I truly wish we had done this as a fun activity as a family in the time we had before. I will cherish this very physical reminder of you forever.

Your hands. They held so much. When you would hold my hand it was with such strength and softness. Your fingers on my face while I pretended to be asleep... The many times I held those beautiful hands of yours and all the mischief and creativity you got up to with them.

When I first got this they were hard to look at as if you were reaching out trying to come back. I've changed perspectives now and it's more of a hello and goodbye.

5 months of missing you Aaron -

26/01/2026

Tomorrow is supposed to be your first day of Prep. You were so excited to go to big school. You had ECDP at the school you were supposed to go to. You were so ready to be a big boy and I so wish I had thought to have you try on one of Ella's school shirts. Why didn't I do that? 😔

Your lunch box would have been overflowing with so many snacks. Your shoes would have been so cool. You probably would have helped a lot keeping Ella organised for school. You helped us both keep organised 😅 my little helper.

Buddy tomorrow is one of the many things you don't get to grow up to do. I've asked Ella to make sure she is extra nice and helpful to the preppies. They would have all been your friends and she said she will look after them. You are going to feel a little more missed by her I think as she sees these new little kids come in with their oversized backpacks and shirts a little too big.

03/01/2026

It's sissy's Birthday tomorrow buddy. She is missing you. When she is sad and thinking of you she watches the music videos on YouTube that you used to watch together. Me&U song - you are best friends forever side by side me and you... It kills me because you were the best brother and her forever friend. You looked up to her but she also looked up to you. You were a little Big Bro.

She got an extra present today because you reminded me about it in my dreams last night. To be fair I'd been thinking of it for a couple of weeks as I know it would have been the present you'd tell me to get her if you were here. We'll be setting up a fish tank for some goldfish. I promised you both for our new house we'd get a tank. This one is just a small one until maybe we get an axolotl 🤔

You had wicked dance moves and loved living life together.

31/12/2025

We miss you and love you. Ella didn't want to go into 2026 without you. She didn't want to be in a year you weren't here. I'm thankful for my beliefs because it doesn't hit me in that way.

We hung out with the neighbours and did glowsticks and games and sparklers like we usually would have. I'm walking into 2026 grateful I'm able to. I think that's enough. We are going to do some awesome things but for now we are still being gentle with ourselves as we face so many firsts without you ❤️

Happy New Year buddy 🎆
I'll always remember our times watching fireworks together. You always had so much wonder and awe about them. Your big bright eyes looking up to the sky.

24/12/2025

As we get ready to face our first Christmas without you here I am unsure of how I'm feeling. It's almost like I am stuck.

Christmas time was when you were diagnosed 3 yrs ago. Your first surgery on the 23rd, first chemo on the 24th. I have the smells of the hospital linger in the air around this time of year. The sanitiser, the soap, the alcohol wipes, your breath after going under anaesthesia. The spew, the vomit. The way that my skin tingled if I got any of your bodily fluids on me while you were having chemo. That's what Christmas feels like to me.

At the same time though, I hear giggles, I feel joy and love and excitement, because through all of it we showed up for each other and lived like little kids. With a love for Santa, the community and local events and of course presents!! You and Ella showed me Christmas in every possible brilliant way it dims the hard stuff but it's still there.

Now that I am experiencing Christmas since you died it's all of those things but something more too. A weight or a magnet in my chest pulling me, away from the present, longing to be with you or you with me. I feel you with us and then at times I don't because I feel so many other things too.

This is a hard time of year for so many families. Too many. We remember our angels every day but tonight as you put presents under the tree and get ready to gather with your family, be sure to share a moment of acknowledgement for those whose lives are turned inside out by the tragedy of a new diagnosis, who have to leave their Christmas morning before even eating breakfast to head to the hospital for a fever. For the kids who are too sick to eat and miss out on sharing Christmas with their siblings.

Wishing your Christmas to be the best you can make of it, with all the love you have in your heart and remember to take the photos. All of them. Even if mum protests, take them of her with these kids. Be sneaky about it and share it only to her or surprise her by printing them off later. Make sure they are the candid ones too and not just the posed/forced ones. Get that glimmer in her eye that she has only for her children and Mum's, don't forget the Dads.

We will live buddy, we will show up for each other and I know you will be with us. Merry Christmas 🎄🎁 🎅