A Wishing Place

Just in case you were wondering, brain surgeries aren't fun. They're right up there with MRIs, doctor appointments, physical therapy exercises, IVs and long hours and hours of treatment time. Luckily, there are few people who realized that 25 years ago and came up with a way to make life a little more enjoyable for kids stuck with a seriously miserable condition.

We found out last month that Sada gets to have a wish granted by Make A Wish! Last year, she was reading about brain tumor kids and heard about the Make A Wish organization. Since then she has researched everything she could find about them and all the wishes they've granted throughout the US. We were invited up to their amazing building, called A Wishing Place, in Salt Lake last Tuesday and she gave the volunteers and workers a perfect summary of MAW's history - love that girl. They gave our family a tour of the place, we played a wish game to narrow down what wishes were really most important to her, and then she got to unlock the Wishing Tower with her wish key (imagine an indoor waterfall, fairy lights, chimes, glowing glass floor - pretty spiffy) and write down her top wishes and send them on to the wish wizard.

They'll keep in touch with us while figuring out how to make one of her wishes come true - right now, she's wishing for a motorhome and has two dozen reasons why she wants one, but I'm pretty sure their policy is no vehicles with motors that run so we'll see what they come up with.

This past month has been truly amazing - receiving support from people who don't have to be involved in our chaos but want to help make life a little more enjoyable is an incredible blessing.