Living life undone

  When a WISH is made there are lots of things that are done behind the scenes to make it happen and to make sure that it is magical.  Last blog post, I shared some of the story behind Kaleb's journey to make his wish and how we built a new room in preparation for Kaleb's wish to be granted.  After many emails back and forth with Make-A-Wish, we set a date and planed the big reveal.   The days leading up to his big reveal were a blur of the last bits of building, painting and, cleaning up from the construction.  Kaleb's girlfriend was a lifesaver making sure he was out of the house and busy giving us a chance to l oad the room with items that had been sent in advance from Make-a-Wish as well as a few items that we wanted to have placed into the room.   It was a big group effort to get it all done. Especially without alerting Kaleb to the fact that his wish was coming early!  It was still the summer, so it was hard to make sure that all o...

When you wish upon a star...  Do you remember when we were little and how we would love to make wishes on stars and dandelion seeds? The anticipation of possibilities with what we could wish for.  The hope that it would come true and the shear excitement when it actually did come true!     When Kaleb was first diagnosed and we were still in the induction stage of treatment, we were asked if Kaleb would get to have a wish from the Make-a-Wish Foundation by some friends. It threw us for a bit and it had not been something our medical team had mentioned to us.  We shoved it to the back burner behind everything else going on.  I mean Kaleb was going to survive this ... right?  Being told your child qualifies to make a WISH is definitely a scary thing at first. We were still in denial to some degree on how sick Kaleb was.  We knew he was sick but he was not stuck in the hospital hooked up to machines... he was at home with us.  Panic was the first...