Here are the kids at a pajama birthday party this past weekend. I stare at this photo, amazed that there are two children in it who fought cancer with heavy doses of chemotherapy, lots of hospitalizations and more than a few surgeries between them. You'd never be able to pick out which children are cancer survivors.

Isabel is one of them, of course, and the little girl with the lovely curls sitting next to her is another. That's Maya, who we met and became friends with while our families spent our days living in the hospital. She is now two years off treatment for burrkitt's lymphoma and doing absolutely fantastic.

I don't think I'll ever underestimate the strength or resilience of children.