This past week our family traveled to Camp Sunshine in Casco, Maine for the second time. This is an amazing and magical place...a retreat for children with serious illnesses and their families.....Oncology week. We were there with 37 other families who have been facing challenges similar to ours...having FUN! Enjoying ourselves. Getting to know and love them with a profound respect, knowing first hand what they are going through or have been through.The Camp's true spark of magic comes from the volunteers...about 70 of them...men, women, and youth in yellow t-shirts all sacrificing a week of their time - some longer. Some of them even sacrifice their vacation time to volunteer at Camp Sunshine. They want to be there! They say, "We get more than we give." We come away having our lives enriched simply for knowing them. Our 
appreciation for them is profound. We are still close with volunteers from last summer, Becky and Christina, and they drove up to visit us!!The sponsor for this week was Tropical Smoothie Cafe. Some of the volunteers this week are Cafe owners. One of them was a special friend to Matt. We don't have any Cafes in South Jersey, so we are planning a trip up to Long Island next month to visit Walt! Tropical Smoothie Cafe presented Camp Sunshine with a check for $310,000 on Thursday so that more families can have a break. I love Tropical Smoothie Cafes.
One of the events that we looked forward to was the Masquerade Dance. We thought we could do a family costume. Charlie thought we should be Super Heroes. Mallory said, "
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