I knew that the 2013 Touch a Truck event would be a roaring success and I just read that the Team 4 Hope raised just under $11,000 with that event! As the mother of a child who has relapsed with neuroblastoma I am so grateful for their efforts.

Next year I'd like to figure out how to get the word out to the wonderful community of families whose children attend Oaklands Elementary. The children have such a fun time when they attend, I'm sure that many families would like to go, but I had trouble getting the word out about it this year. If anyone can help me get beyond my blog and right in front of people's faces, please let me know. 

I haven't yet seen the pictures Luis and Rene took when they went (I had a family event out of town and sadly had to miss Touch a Truck). I hear there are four. I hope they're great!

I was overjoyed to attend Rene's piano recital this afternoon. He was very nervous last night and this morning.  When I arrived he didn't look nervous, but after he had finished playing the first two lines of Good Kind Wenceslas and another short piece called the Postman, he let out a very loud sigh of relief. 

Rene plays the piano the same way he lives his life - with feeling!

Lately I've been able to enjoy a giddy freedom with Rene. I'm surprised to have outrun the demon that was hunting him down.  It's no longer breathing down our necks so we can play baseball, make plans two months in advance, and go to his piano recital.  Sometimes I can hear the demon crashing around in the wilderness of of my imagination, trying to pick up the scent of the trail it lost, but other times  I'm recklessly savouring Rene's life. 

I've been wondering lately what to do about the blog. This year Rene learned to read.  It won't be too much longer before he sits down and deciphers my posts. I won't be able to write the same things I do now