Party

Don't forget to come to Joshua's "End Of Treatment" party if you live close enough to. It is this Saturday from 3pm to 5pm at our church. 3311 SouthFork , Pearland Tx. We are really looking forward to having a fun afternoon. I am so proud of all my children for the tough year they have survived. I am extra proud of Joshua for his project. He is collecting Webkinz to donate to the children still in treatment. He set a goal to collect 250 for the children. So far we have 90 that we have collected. I am extra proud of Miriam and Teddy. They used their birthday money to purchase Webkinz to donate, and that was without any prompting from me.

Let me explain why Josh wants to do this. During treatment there are many rough milestones. Radiation, first time for new chemo drugs, MRI's, and various tests. It is so hard for these children to do such scary things that as a parent you look for anything to get them through. Couple that with all the time they are either confined to bed or to weak to go outside and Webkinz become really great. It is a stuffed animal with a code attatched. You can register your Webkinz online and play with them in a virtual world. It is a safe site for kids and they have lots of educational games. We gave Josh a Webkinz for each milestone and it helped. He would focus on that toy and not what they were doing to him. They are not expensive and the stuffed animals are pretty darn cute. (they can go into an MRI machine!) Anyway, we are proud of him for thinking about others now.

Anyway, We are looking forward to a big blast Saturday and hope everybody close can come, it will be great to eat cake and relax and celebrate. We are calling this the summer of Josh and taking every chance to party. We got a call from Make a Wish and on the 18th we fly to New York to get Josh's wish (meeting his favorite author) In June is scout camp and cancer camp. We will figure out something for July and August and then in September we are hoping to go to Maryland to see my family. Come join us for the kick off of a great family summer if you can. Please remember that your prayers helped get us here.