Bits and Pieces of The Packards: Lemonade Stand {fundraiser for cancer}

A little over a year ago a young man I had as a 3rd grader was diagnosed with cancer.
He was the type of kid in class that everyone loved.
I always said, the girls loved him and the boys wanted to be him.
He was funny.
Smart.
Kind.
And as sarcastic as they come at that age.
I don't have favorites.
But..if I did he would be my favorite from that class.
One of my all time favorites.
When I got the email that the achiness in his leg was actually cancer, I sat and cried.
No one deserves to go through cancer.
Especially not a 10 year old.
So sad and such a helpless feeling.
Throughout the entire school year he was in an out of the hospital.
He went through chemo.
He lost weight.
Lost hair.
But didn't lose his spunkiness and sarcasm.
I loved that about him whenever he would wheel through the hallways at school.
I am lucky and my classroom overlooks the playground.
Whenever I happened to glance out my window during recess times I always noticed that if he was out there in his wheelchair, there was also a big group of girls around him.
Even during the hardest year of his life, he still found ways to charm the girls!
A couple weeks ago as I was reading his mom's online journal, I read that the cancer was back.
He just got the news it was gone and he was in remission and bam..it's back.
After much consideration and talks with doctors and family, they decided that the best choice would be to amputate his leg.
Wow, what a life changer.
But, in his normal ways he came through it all with his great character in tact.

And through all of this I would mention it to Dylan here and there. Hard thing to explain to a 5 year old.
At the same time Dylan had been begging me to have a lemonade stand.
So, a lemonade stand we had.
And to my surprise Dylan decided to give all the money to the "boy from my school that is sick and in a wheelchair".
Wow, really Dylan...that's awesome!

Getting our lemonade mixed and ready to serve.