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Still Swimming Though Sometimes Through Tears

Monday, May 17th, 2010

Last Friday marked nine weeks and the 12th last week was two months.   We have been to two nights of grief counseling so far.  The first night we all just did an art project as a family and the boys liked that and the second night we just sat around and talked about what we […]

A Gold Balloon

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

Andy and Charlie at the Lego store at Disneyland Sam running ahead at age one Since I can’t really bring myself to post pictures of the boys without pictures of Sam, I’m going to post a picture from Sam’s All Star slide show or pictures that people send that I hadn’t seen yet to go […]

Fragile

Monday, April 26th, 2010

We are doing all right.  The boys are keeping us going.  Andy has had basketball and soccer and playdates and has started the chess club and Charlie has had swimming and scooter playdates with Jett where they ride their new spark scooters (scooters that actually throw out sparks when you hit the brakes -great for fire prone California). […]

Sam’s All-Star Party — The Highlight Video and Debut of Sam’s YouTube Channel

Sunday, April 18th, 2010

Here’s the link to Sam’s YouTube page.  It’s teamsamhutchison because teamsam wasn’t available.  Also, Uncle Matt who worked tirelessly on this video has DVD’s for those who would like one.  His email address is newsdr@aol.com We were trying to get the video up here but it was too big.  We’ll be adding the slideshow and some […]

Four Weeks

Friday, April 9th, 2010

Today marks four weeks.  I spent the morning in tears re-reading my black journal.  I call it my black journal because it is black but also because it contains my very first entries after Sam was diagnosed and it is crushingly sad and it made me cry my eyes out.  Why would I do this to myself?  […]

Wow!

Sunday, April 4th, 2010

It’s all we can say about today. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. The outpouring of support from the community to make Sam’s All-Star Party a special day has us overwhelmed. We have photos and video we will upload but we did want to quickly say ‘thanks’ – a HUGE ‘thanks’ to everyone who attended and […]

A Million Artichokes

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

Maureen and Neil were in the car last night with the boys while I ran into Vons for something and they were talking with the boys about pizza.  Maureen said she like artichokes and pepperoni on her pizza and then she said Sam really like artichokes and Andy answered “I don’t like artichokes but I would […]

Reminder about the All-Star Party (Saturday 10am)

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

We continue to get pictures from people the last few weeks – THANKS!!!! Snapshots emailed or harcopy that show us sides of Sam we never knew. WE LOVE those so please, please take a moment and rummage through your picture file or hard-drive. You will bring a smile to a very saddened family. CALLING ALL […]

Numb and Fun

Sunday, March 28th, 2010

We’re in Palm Springs – we had to get away for a few days and through the kindness of friends and strangers, we have had a great time together as a family. We only wanted to post a quick note since many are wondering how we’re doing and we’re not communicating much since we’re a […]

Scrapbooking help for Sam’s All-Star Party on April 3rd

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

Quick funny story – two days ago, Andy and Charlie were playing Mario Tennis and Andy achieved a level he’d never reached – he yelled “I KNEW Sam would give me his powers! I just knew it!”.  Sam was a master at all videogames and we’re glad he’s channeling his skills to his younger brother. […]

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