Maybe you’ve heard about our upcoming pilgrimage. The one where Charley and I, the kids and our dog, live in an RV and travel the US. The one where we learn to heal, with out all the distractions of “stuff”. The one where we school, work and learn on the go. The one where we spray-paint F*CK YOU CANCER on the side of RV and hit the road. (ok, not really) The one where, if all goes wrong, we cry UNCLE and come back home.
This weekend, our super cool, musicians, and all around good people, Charlene and Greg Johnson, will be hosting a house concert for us.
Here’s what Charlene had to say:
NEWS:
Aug’09:
It’s been a while since I’ve updated my site…too long! Hope this finds you well and enjoying summer.
We’ve got a fun house concert/fundraiser going on this weekend. The Whitts lost their two year old twin babygirl in Jan. of this year. Her name was Tuesday. Here’s a beautiful blog that chronicles their journey (Jess is an amazing writer). They want to get out of dodge for a while so they are taking our RV end of Sept through Feb with their three kids and heading out across the U.S. for some road therapy to promote pediatric cancer awareness at various pediatric hospitals across the U.S. If you’d like to donate money to their cause you can do so through their paypal account. Click on my contact page and email me and I’ll tell you how.
Save the date! Sept. 26th will bring us another awesome house concert with Seth Horan! Seth is crazy talented coming all the way from from Reno, NV. Email me to reserve your spot now!
Be well.
CJ
If you are local and would like to come, leave me a comment or send me an email. If you would like to donate to our mission, there is a new paypal button on your right.
If you want to hear some really smooth, soulful music, go here and buy a cd.
If you want to send us some TuTu’s or Tukes ( Thanks Lowell’s!!) to be donated to children’s oncology clinics in Tuesday’s name, send them to Tuesday’s Tutus
P.O. Box 518
Watkins, CO 80134
Or donate thru Paypal, attn: Tutus
If you want to leave judgmental comments, send them to KISS MY ASS, Anywhere, USA.
If you want to send love, I’m all yours!
xo,
Jessica
Your trip sounds AWESOME….if your in the Detroit area at some point, I hope to hear about it. Something like this pilgrmage sounds like the right medicine, ya know…..I wish you and your family the very best. Again, like many, your dear little Tuesday changed me….changed my thinking….changed for the better.
If your in the Dallas area I would love to hear about it also! I have followed your journey, and my heart has been breaking for you. You are in my thoughts and prayers often. I want to give you a big hug!
Let me know if you are in the Toledo area! We would love to meet you! God Bless the open road ahead!
INCREDIBLE Jess.I just posted that my dream was to have a kick ass motor home … wish we had one,we'd travel with you!I send you with peace and strength and prayers as your journey begins.Hoping it yields all that you need and all that you want and I KNOW that Tuesday travels along with you.Her beautiful spirit as your guide.If you are thinking about LA,Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles,where Zoey is treated,might be an awesome stop.I would love to coordinate something for you if your interested.I mostly would love to meet you and hug you and tell you I think your amazing.Take care.Godspeed.
If you are comming to OKC, let me know what you need. I'll help out anyway that I can!
I think it sounds like a great idea. What better therapy than time together? We'll miss you on the blog though. Still thinking of your family and praying for you guys all the time.
BTW, Kiss my ass, USA…LOL.
YES!!! F*CK CANCER!!!!!
you're awesome…just like the other commenters..i'd love to know if you're ever in the northeast pennsylvania area…..
best of luck in your mission…i know you're going to do great things in Tuesday's name….
and i hope you'll be blogging and taking lots of pictures on your journey…..sure wish i could come to your concert…..i'll be there in spirit 🙂
~colleen
NO Kiss-my-ass comments here!
I would like to offer anything I can to your cause.
If you are going to be in Virginia at all, I am in Williamsburg and would like to offer a hot meal, dog food and lots of hugs. I wish I could offer a place to stay, but the children would have to sleep on hardwood floors so that wouldn't be as comfortable as an RV.
PLEASE let me know if you will be coming and I will have the welcome mat ready and waiting.
My home is small, but my heart is big for Tuesday, for your family, for anyone going through this.
I have never met you all, but love you like family.
My email is katieross474@gmail.com.
Let me know, my doors are open!
Safe travels beautiful friends. Hope to see you soon. Love you.
if you get a big thumbs up from a couple of blonde teenaged boys and their crazed looking mother on the beltway around D.C., you'll know it's me!
oh, and i actually do have a judgement for you:
what you are doing is awesome, inspiring, humbling, wonderful, touching, healing, and all around good. says me.
your raw honesty is refreshing. haha kiss my ass. that is an instant reply i think alot of people would like to have on their blogs!!
i hope you have a fantastic, healing, learning voyage.
may you come back with many, many stories to tell.
Godspeed
ps
come to knoxville. i want to hug your neck!! 😉
You get anywhere near here and I will stand next to you screaming F*ck You Cancer! You have a mission Jess that I believe is sent from above. Tuesday will be riding right along with you guys. I pray you have a safe, successful, healing journey.
Brandi
please please please say you are coming to los angeles. i will pay the gas to get you here. and on another note, can i come on board?
you are awesome. awesome. awesome.
Jess, your trip sounds great! I can't wait to hear about it. I will definitely be sending a TuTu in Tuesday's honor as well. I still pray for your family constantly and think of you often! Much love!
road trip sounds great!
I hope it's a time for your family to become closer, heal together, and make great memories.
will you be posting a schedule of sorts, so that loyal readers of your blog can maybe, possibly watch your RV zooming through town?
What a great trip! I hope your family has an amazing time! I hope you blog on the road! And lastly, I hope you visit us here in San Diego! 🙂
good luck and traveling mercies on your journey. i wish for you peace. if you have peace, you can do anything. lots of love from the midwest.
Wishing you a safe and peaceful journey. Will you be posting a 'schedule' of when and were you'll be stopping? We'd love to have you in Michigan.
I have goosebumps and tears in my eyes. Good for you for doing this! I just know that a part of your heart is going to heal over the coming months. What a courageous journey and trbute to Tuesday's special life!
P.s. Do people really leave judgemental comments? What are they judging? Are those people freakin' human????
Oh Jess, may your trip be blessed beyond words. May the awareness grow, may you be able to lend a hand everywhere, and most off all, may you be able to find some comfort in all this.
God's love and light to you girl! Love from Africa.
Your trip sounds wonderful. God bless you along your way.
I watched the photo tribute…beautiful. I am still crying. I'm so glad that you did those photos, they are just beautiful.
((Hugs))
please post a schedule. Love that you're still fighting pediatric cancer. I love reading your updates. I hate that people are judgmental of you. Not sure what they would be judging. My heart continues to ache for you. Seriously, how sweet is Tuesday in that video? Incredibly.
I can't wait to meet you somewhere along this route and scream F*ck Cancer at the top of my lungs with you. Also- anyone who wants to leave judgemental comments just send them on over to me. I would love to share a few words you. Maybe tell you hateful individuals about the nice little spot in hell thats waiting for you. You leave my Whitts alone!
I love the spubnk at the end of this post Jess. Good to see you (it).
I tried calling earlier…just call me when you get the time.
Can't wait to see you!!!
LOVE you always!
How AWESOME….what an amazing thing you're doing. I'll be praying for safe travels and great memories. This journey will knit you so tightly….what an amazing blessing that will be!
If you are in or around Grand Rapids, MI I would love to know about it!
I hope that your adventure is very theraputic for your whole family.
wow. Just reread my comment. That was supposed to say "spunk". LOL
…and you know what's terrible? somehow, with the word "spunk", my mind is now racing to those old, long ago "burrito" conversations… hope it made you smile 🙂
Rock on my dear friend. And I agree send all of the judgemental douchebags to Sharlene (I heard she has a stick that she knows how to use LOL). xo
F*UCK YOU CANCER and KISS MY ASS – I like it!! 🙂 YOU GO!!!
Heal beautiful family, as best you can!!! We will continue to pray, continue to send hugs along the breezes of your path and send balloons to sweet Tuesday – every chance we get!!
I'll see you tomorrow to send you off with hugs!!
Janice Rolfs
wow, what an incredible idea!!! i sincerely hope you find a bit of peace by the time you get back.
Just ditto-ing all the comments. Phoenix has beautiful weather that time of year, short weather actually. And a great children's hospital to boot! We know, we have been there 🙂
May the long road you are beginning to travel lead to a place that you can breathe in…
I think the trip will be wonderful for you all & we'll support you in every way we can!
I have an idea to help fundraise…you could sell add space on the sides of the RV. The ads could be printed on sticky paper or that paper you can iron onto paper and then ironed to a sheet and tie the sheet to the side.
It is so absolutely unselfish to let your family grieve. Sending cyber love your way.
This trip is such an awesome idea. I hope it brings you & your family much healing, and some great new memories as well.
xoxo
Nobody had BETTER be judgmental!
Still here praying!
Romans 3:23-26 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
Prayer Bears
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Wow. I am here in Colorado but maybe it's because it is so late and I can barely keep my eyes open (Must. Leave. Computer!) but did this already happen over the weekend? Or is it happening on 9/26? Or maybe both, lol..
Either way I will find a way to help. I know it is hard to believe but I think of Tuesday every day. I can't explain it. She touched me. She has renewed my faith with her balloons.
I really hate Cancer too.
Let me know more about your concert. *Hugs to all of you*
Having a good Grammy cry over all these lovely comments!!!
Will miss my kids and grandkids beyond measure but couldn't be more thrilled for them!
"A frank courageous heart…triumphed over pain" William Wordsworth
Much love to you and your family on your travels.
I know you have family in the Asheville area in NC, but if you want to come to the Charlotte area and Willmington area you are more than welcome. Amy and I would love to see you!
love
chrisy.
What a cool idea! Will you be updating your blog as you go, or are you taking a break from being online as well? I'd love to hear updates on how your family is doing throughout the trip.
i love you, jess!!! haha!! "kiss my ass, usa"!! haha!
must be weird having perfect strangers say they love you, but reading your blog makes me think i know you 🙂 AWESOME that you guys are going rv-ing across country. i wish you a beautiful journey, & hope to see you in houston (though please wait a little while bf you come b/c it's hotter than hell right now!)
Your trip will be amazing! I am jealous that I won't be doing it. I don't even remember how I learned of your Tuesday, but I prayed for all of you so much. I lost my beautiful Mackenzie, also a twin -a year and a half ago and it ripped my heart open. I hate cancer. May God watch over you in your travels and hopefully you will pass through Michigan perhaps?
Take care!
Debbie
I hope you have a wonderful trip!
Keep us posted about when you'll be coming to various hospitals. I'd love to meet you and to help in anyway possible! Good luck!
I hope you guys can make it to the Greater Hampton Roads area, aka, Norfolk/Virginia Beach VA. I can't imagine why anyone would want to make judgemental comments about your pilgrimage. It sounds like an awesome idea and extremely cathartic. You guys are doing all the right, healthy things to grieve for Miss Tuesday. I think of her and you everyday. Let me know if you are coming our way. We would love to host the Great American Road Trip/Pediatric Cancer Awareness Bus in front of our house!! peace be with you all. . . cindy lou
Please come to New York City! I'll do whatever we can to make your stay a good one. I think of you and your family all the time. Please let me know what I can do to help.
xoxo
I so wish I could travel with you. What a awesome opportunity and a great cause! I am sending a tutu in Tuesday name.
Know that I'm here praying right now!
When darkness veils His lovely face,
I rest on His unchanging grace;
In every high and stormy gale
My anchor holds within the veil.
On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand;
All other ground is sinking sand.
Prayer Bears
My email address
I send love. You don't know me, but I pray for you & your family & check your blog constantly. Have a safe wonderful healing trip.
Continuing to lift up prayers!
His oath, His covenant, and blood
Support me in the whelming flood;
When every earthly prop gives way,
He then is all my Hope and Stay.
On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand;
All other ground is sinking sand.
Prayer Bears
My email address
Dear Jessica, I came to your blog in early January through a link posted on another blog I follow. Sadly, it was only one short week before you lost Tuesday. I'm not sure if it was because I was well into my third trimester at the time (hormones all over the place), or because my battle with infertility had been so long and painful that I could not imagine being dealt the hand you suffered, but I felt Tuesday's passing as I have never felt the passing of a stranger. My response was completely irrational – I cried like I have never cried before, even for loved ones of my own. Of course losing a child should evoke a stronger response – after all, we expect to lose our grandparents, parents, perhaps brothers and sisters, before our time is up. No parent should ever be preceded in death by a child, especially one so young, and certainly not with so much unecessary pain and suffering. Your journey has changed me – so much so that, through no conscious intent of your own, you have made me question my faith. My faith in God, in life, in His purpose for our lives…I find myself stuggling as never before, where I used to walk blindly, accompanied by beliefs I had been taught and never really questioned. I have finally made peace, though, with the idea that perhaps we are not meant to understand, at least not in our time. It's a terrible cliche, but the best way I can describe it – perhaps He needed Tuesday more, and it is not for us to understand. (And yet those words sound so bitter and empty rolling off the tongue…)
I would love nothing more than to offer you words of comfort and wisdom, but you are so much wiser and stronger and braver than I could ever hope to be. I read your words each post and am constantly amazed by your strength. My heart goes out to your family, but especially to Piper, for experiencing the loss of a twin is something that most of us will never be able to truly comprehend.
Your upcoming trip sounds wonderful. May your hearts be healed and may you find the solace you are looking for. I'm in the Atlanta area, not far from Scottish Rite Children's Hospital. I'd love to hear if you get this way, and would certainly come out to hear you speak and/or offer any help or support I could. Perhaps as plans firm up, you'll post a list of cities/dates/hospitals you plan to visit? Tuesday's life has touched so many others spanning the country – how awesome and humbling to have the chance to be a part of that.
On another note, I was happy to read your post about being through your first trimester. Since then, you haven't posted anything related, and with the extended trip coming up, I wondered…hoping and praying that your pregnancy is progressing well. Might you post a quick update for those of us who have been silently following along and praying for you? Certainly I respect your privacy if you choose not to. Just wanted you to know that you and your family are in my thoughts and prayers (even if I tend to lurk more than post comments).
Wishing you nothing but the best,
Melissa
I do hope you'll make it to the Birmingham area. We'd love to meet you guys. I hope this journey brings some healing.
Melissa,
You are sweet to check, but I am not now, nor have I been, pregnant since Tuesday and Piper's pregnancy. Piper will forever (?) be my youngest child. Or will Tuesday, since I guess she is now forever younger than Piper. Or is she? But I digress….
Anyway, my post, First Trimester Blues, was referring to my first trimester without Tuesday. I sometimes wonder if what is in my head, actually makes any sense on paper. In this case, it may not have.
So nope. No more pregnancies or babies for me. Unless someone has a baby that they would like to give me. I'll take it! Especially if it's a good sleeper, because let's face it. I'm tired.
xo,
j
Jess,
Just had to come over here so I can link to a particular post for one I am doing…
anyhoo, just read through all of these wonderfully beautiful comments… see, you will never have to doubt the impact Tuesday had on this world, much as I imagine her impact has been on the heavens.
Thinking of you always 🙂
Your trip sounds like fun! I wish I could go to the concert! That sounds like a blast as well!
PS – Loved your "kiss my ass" comment. Very JK of you. 🙂
What an AWESOME trip! I haven't been able to stop in for a while. Some friends of ours lost their child last week and it was sooo sad, you know. My heart still aches for you with losing Tuesday.
I hope you don't get many nasty comments. That's just wrong.
There is a children's hospital in Anchorage (sort of). . . if you're coming this far north it would be cool (literally!) to meet you. 😉
Happy Traveling. I think we would all like to be with you!!
C and J-
It's Sarah from Water 2 Wine. Your site is lovely, and such an inspiration! I cannot imagine the pain you all are feeling, but I want you to know what this is HUGE, and will touch so many lives, and hopefully help heal some too! I wish you guys much love, support and safe travels, you have a beautiful guardian angel with you along the way. The mini horse farm is in Lester, NC. Not sure if that's the same place you are hoping to go, but please, take the kids up there for some barn time! Linde and Carl would LOVE to have you. Bon Voyage!
Sending Love.
This is a Unique and inspiring mission you have come up for yourselves. What a positive message you are giving to your children, those who have shared in your grief and those who are dealing with those same struggles.
Thank you,
Oh, by the way….are you posting your Road Tour stops along with dates? I would love to see if you will be in Pittsburgh and when.
The Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh just opened a beautiful New Hospital!
Hello. I'm not sure if you know of this family already, but here in Los Angeles, a little boy named Pablo died of cancer this summer. His dad writes an incredible blog and is very involved in music professionally. I have a hunch that if you aren't already, you must meet.
Hope you are having a good time on your wild trip.
(And I can't leave this page without erasing my comment, so I will write another comment with the address!)
here's the blog I just told you about: http://getwellpablo.blogspot.com
Hi there! Just wanted to let you know a wonderful friend of mine is going to donate some tutu's in Tuesday's name! I'm going to purchase a few as well and we are going to send them off! I cannot even imagine someone's babies dancing and twirling to their heart's content…marvelous. I hope it will bring moments of joy and maybe even a photograph to last a lifetime…