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10/12/2026

Miggsy Monday Memory

Five years ago, at the beginning of this journey, I shared a video of Joshua in the hospital. He had been there for 100 days. To mark the milestone, his nurses, techs, and Child Life team made up a song just for him—and gave him a pizza.

They took an ordinary day in a place none of us wanted to be and filled it with joy. They saw Joshua, loved him, and found a way to celebrate him after 100 days of showing up. And then we would begin the long road of radiation, which would last about six weeks.

Watching that video now brings back more than the moment itself. I can feel the muscle memory of those early days: learning how to fight cancer, holding on to hope, and believing we still had so much time. Then there is the ache of the following year, when we were still praying for a miracle while beginning to understand that our sweet boy might be going home to be with Jesus.

The distance between those two seasons is hard to put into words. Both are part of our story. Both are held in these beautiful, tender memories.

I’m grateful for the people who poured their hearts and souls into caring for children like Joshua—and who made a random day feel worth celebrating simply because he had been there for 100 of them.

These days, even the hospital and the memories of Joshua’s cancer journey are starting to feel long ago. I’m thankful we have this video to bring us close to a moment, and to the people who made it matter.

We love you, Miggsy. We remember. 💛💙🧡

10/06/2026

MIggsy Monday Memory

Just a late night memory of young Joshie doing what he loves! Enjoy!

09/30/2026

As September comes to a close, I keep thinking about just how far one simple idea has traveled.

For the fourth year, we had the privilege of delivering Mighty Miggsy Birthday Bags to Children’s National—the place that holds so much of Joshua’s story and so many people who became special to him and to us.

And this year, we had a very special little guest with us: sweet baby Lucy. 💛💙🧡 At just seven months old, she obviously wasn’t carrying bags, but she absolutely brought her own kind of gift to the day. She brought smiles. She brought joy. And there was something incredibly sweet about watching the faces around us light up because she was there.

At Children’s National, we were able to spend time with some of our favorite people—who also happened to be some of Joshua’s favorite people—and deliver more than 80 bags to our inpatient and outpatient friends connected to the 4 East Hematology/Oncology floor.

But this year, Joshua’s dream traveled a little farther.

Because of the generosity of so many of you—those who donated money, bought supplies, packed bags, gave your time, shared our posts, prayed, and simply asked, “How can I help?”—we were also able to partner with Inova in Fairfax, Virginia, and deliver 35 Mighty Miggsy Birthday Bags to their pediatric oncology patients.

More than 115 bags. Two hospitals. One beautiful idea that keeps growing.

I wish I could tell Joshua that.

I wish I could tell him that the idea he had while he was the kid in the hospital bed is now reaching children he never met, in rooms he never stayed in, through people he never knew would one day help carry his story.

And I wish he could have seen Lucy there—bringing smiles and joy to a place that meant so much to him.

As Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and Joshua’s birthday month come to an end, I am overwhelmed by what all of you helped us do. Every bag carries pieces of an entire community that decided Joshua’s joy was worth continuing.

Thank you for helping us keep saying his name, keep sharing his joy, and keep carrying his dream farther than we ever imagined.

💛💙🧡

09/29/2026

A little late-night—-Miggsy Monday Memory.

Six-year-old Joshua, exactly 16 years ago. Apparently, he just couldn’t make it one more step.

My caption back then was simply, “Do you think he was tired?”

Still makes me smile. I miss this little boy—and every version of him—more than I could ever put into words. 💛💙🧡

09/14/2026

Miggsy Monday Memory

We’ve spent a lot of September telling you things about childhood cancer.

Today, I want you to tell me something about Joshua.

If you knew him, drop one memory in the comments — but I have a request: give me the kind of memory that would probably make him roll his eyes if he knew you were putting it on the internet.

Something he said. Something ridiculous he did. An inside joke. A moment you still laugh about. One of those completely ordinary memories that probably didn’t seem important at the time and somehow means everything now.

I’ll start in the comments with one of mine.

Mighty Miggsy Monday is yours today. Tell us about our boy.

09/11/2026

Childhood cancer is diagnosed in a child, but it rarely stays contained to that one life.

It changes the rhythm of an entire family.

Parents learn how to live between appointments and scan results while still trying to keep everything else standing. Siblings watch attention shift toward the child who is sick and carry feelings they may not know how to name. Friends keep going to school, practices and dances while someone they love is suddenly living in a completely different world.

Even home changes. Work changes. Plans change. The future starts being discussed in ways no family ever expected.

That part of childhood cancer can be easy to miss from the outside. We see the child in treatment—and of course we should—but surrounding that child is an entire circle of people trying to figure out how to keep loving, parenting, working, showing up and hoping in circumstances they never chose.

Childhood cancer may be pediatric.
Its reach is much bigger.

If childhood cancer has touched your family, what is one thing you wish people understood about the impact beyond the diagnosis?

We’d love to hear it in the comments.
💛💙🧡

09/08/2026

Kids are priceless.

That sounds obvious until childhood cancer enters the room and suddenly so much of a child’s life is measured.

Blood counts. Scan results. Medication doses. Treatment days. Hospital stays. Percentages. Odds.

Families become fluent in numbers they never wanted to learn, but none of those numbers can tell you what a child is worth.

They cannot measure the sound of their laugh, the space they take up in a family, the friendships they’ve built, the future they are already imagining, or the hole left behind when that future is interrupted.

Childhood cancer forces families to pay attention to numbers.

This September, we’re asking everyone else to pay attention to the kids.

Because research matters. Better treatments matter. Support for families matters. Awareness matters.
And every child facing cancer is worth all of it.

Kids are priceless. Always.

If you believe childhood cancer deserves more attention, SHARE THIS POST to your story today. Help us put these kids in front of people who might otherwise scroll right past Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.

09/05/2026

Childhood cancer became personal to us in a way we never would have chosen.

Before Joshua was diagnosed with Ewing Sarcoma, we could care about sick children, feel compassion for their families, donate to a cause or stop on a heartbreaking story in our feed.

But there is a difference between knowing childhood cancer exists and learning what it actually asks of a child and the people who love them.

No family should have to receive a diagnosis before this matters to them.

Awareness matters because attention matters. Research matters. Better treatments matter. Supporting families in the middle of treatment matters.

Paying attention to what survivors carry after treatment matters. And remembering the children who did not get the future they deserved matters.

You do not have to know Joshua to care about this.
You do not have to have sat beside a hospital bed.
You do not have to know what Ewing Sarcoma is yet.

You only have to decide that children facing cancer deserve more of our attention than they are getting.

So if this lands with you, share it. Let somebody else see it today too. Share this post!

Because childhood cancer should matter long before it becomes personal. 💛💙🧡

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