A bike for Sam...

If you've been to my profile the last couple days, you may have noticed I've started another blog... this one for a reason.

Background: Hubby is a huge Denver Broncos fan, so he is a member of a forum called The Orange Mane. Well, there's another member of the board in Southern Illinois who has a young son, Sam, with cerebral palsy. Sam is 3 1/2 years old and doctors didn't think he would live this long. So anyway his Daddy had posted a message on the board asking how he could get a special bicycle made that Sam can ride along on. Sam's palsy is pretty bad, so all he could do is just ride in a seat on the bike. Here's a link to the thread on it:
http://www.orangemane.com/BB/showthread.php?t=54609

Well, this hit Hubby in the heart because from his first marriage he has 2 sons, one of which has cerebral palsy too. Although his isn't as bad, he's 26 years old now and enjoys repairing lawnmower engines and such even though he has a child's mentality. So anyway, Hubby wanted to help out with Sam by building a bike for him. (Actual shops that have designed bikes like this charge around $1800-2000, which may be difficult for Sam's family to do)

So when he posted on the Orange Mane that he would build the bike a lot of people wanted to help out too, and were asking about giving donations to the project. Hubby and I aren't able to do this for free, so what we did was set up a blog for folks to see the progress, and also put a link to PayPal for making donations to the cause.
http://bikeforsam.blogspot.com/

So if you were wondering what the Bike for Sam blog was about... there you go.
And one more thing... I'm really proud of Hubby for stepping up to the plate on this and doing something good for another family out there. That's my man. :)