Funraisers and Fitting In

Ok, in the last year we have been invited to alot of fundraisers for children with cancer and so forth. I have not been comfortable attending any of them. I know what I am about to say sounds weird but I really felt that attending would make us one of "those families". You know, you see them on the news, they look so sad and you feel so bad for them with a sick child. However, I could not miss this one. We were invited to attend a motorcycle ride for the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation. The kids got to do a ride on bikes and I knew they would love it. It was SUPER! The girls rode in side cars and Ted and Josh got to ride on the back of some really cool motorcycles. They went on an hour ride around Houston with 600 or so bikes. When they came back there was lunch and a program where Josh got to go up on stage with the other kids with cancer and they introduced him and later he got to draw a raffle ticket where someone won a new motorcycle. It was fun, I didn't mind going at all. Gordon and I laughed, we put them on bikes with total strangers and as they were driving away I said to Gordon, do you know where they are going? He laughed and said no. The people there were so nice we weren't worried at all. It is funny to put your 3 and 4 year old on a bike with a Hells Angel and wave goodbye. I guess it is all part of our new reality, normal but definitely different. After that we drove most of the way to Austin and picked up an new dog. He is really cute. However he is very lonely and crying in the back yard so I have to go help him fit in with the girls. It was a long day but lots of fun and the kids had a blast