On Sunday we got a call from Nicholas, he told Cassidy and Keith that he had 4 tickets to the RedSox game that day and wanted to know if we wanted to go with him. Keith asked us about it, Cass said sure about going, I didn't want to go beacause I didn't want to be sitting in the hot sun in an uncomfortable seat for 3 hours and Keith didn't want to go because he doesn't like going in to see games or crowds. He has even turned down Bruins tickets because he would rather watch the game at home. But Keith knew that Nicholas really wanted to go and didn't want to let him down so he decided he would take Nicolas and Cassidy if I didn't want to go. Against all my reasons why it was not a good idea to go, that he agreed with, he couldn't say no to Nicholas. I didn't want to stay home alone all day so I decided to go too. We drove in which is difficult as its the same way to the Jimmy Fund and Children's hospital, lots of emotions and thoughts happening. Then we find a very reasonable parking lot which ended up being a quick walk to Fenway and right to the gate where our seats were. As we walked in, we went to look at our seats, the tickets Nicholas had were 2 seats in one section and 2 seats in another, so we saw the first seats then on our way to the 2nd seats I could hear them announcing something about the Jimmy Fund and figured it was just associated with the RedSox, then I heard them say, The stop and Shop Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation, so I was really listening and then they announced that Stop and Shop was presenting Dr. Kieran with a check for The Pediatric Brain Tumor Research Foundation. I said to Keith are you listening to this and he said yes kinda why? I said Dr Kieran is on the field right now and they are giving him a check. So we all stopped and looked and there was Dr Kieran on the field. It was one of those emotional moments that was unexpected yet comforting. Keith said that he knew we would get a sign from Alec . Because the one and only time we went to a RedSox game together as a family was when Alec was selected to be a Poster Child for Stop and Shop for The Pediatric Brain Tumor Research Foundation at the Jimmy Fund. Part of it was going to a RedSox game in box seats with Dr. Kieran and his family and Christine and Her husband (AL's Nurse Practitioner), and another family whose child was also selected as a poster child.
So here we are again at a RedSox game and we walk in just in time to see this all happening on the field with Dr Kieran. And it was so good that we were walking because I know it would have been so much harder if we were seated and able to take it all in. It was a definate sign from Alec that he was with us just like last time.
And when we got to our 2nd set of seats we were trying to get 2 people to switch seats so we could all sit together but no luck, so there was 2 empty seats next to our tickets and we all sat and figured we'd separate when the 2 people came. Then the 2 people came and said it was their seats but we could stay there and they sat in 2 empty seats 2 rows behind us. A nice married couple that didn't even care that we were in their seats. It was really nice and unexpected, we ended up being able to all sit together for the whole game.
I think Alec had a plan when he had Nicholas call us because it got us to all go in and go through the drive, the area, and the game because he knows it is so hard for us to do these things. Maybe it was part of his plan to get us closer the Jimmy Fund so that maybe one day we would be able to bring in Alec's Birthday donations.
Plus first guy I see selling food had a #23 on his shirt , but then I saw they all had different numbers. So in perfect Alec magic, mid game there are 2 guys selling food in our section and both have #23 on their shirts.
As I type this there is a Jimmy Fund commercial on for the Jimmy fund walk in September.
So here we are again at a RedSox game and we walk in just in time to see this all happening on the field with Dr Kieran. And it was so good that we were walking because I know it would have been so much harder if we were seated and able to take it all in. It was a definate sign from Alec that he was with us just like last time.
And when we got to our 2nd set of seats we were trying to get 2 people to switch seats so we could all sit together but no luck, so there was 2 empty seats next to our tickets and we all sat and figured we'd separate when the 2 people came. Then the 2 people came and said it was their seats but we could stay there and they sat in 2 empty seats 2 rows behind us. A nice married couple that didn't even care that we were in their seats. It was really nice and unexpected, we ended up being able to all sit together for the whole game.
I think Alec had a plan when he had Nicholas call us because it got us to all go in and go through the drive, the area, and the game because he knows it is so hard for us to do these things. Maybe it was part of his plan to get us closer the Jimmy Fund so that maybe one day we would be able to bring in Alec's Birthday donations.
Plus first guy I see selling food had a #23 on his shirt , but then I saw they all had different numbers. So in perfect Alec magic, mid game there are 2 guys selling food in our section and both have #23 on their shirts.
As I type this there is a Jimmy Fund commercial on for the Jimmy fund walk in September.
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