Give thanks for your healthy kids

I took my littlest boy to see a movie the other day and a commercial of sorts appeared just before our flick began. It was a motivational bit, shared by celebs Jennifer Aniston, Robin Williams, Ray Romano, Bernie Mac, Antonio Banderas, and Reggie Bush about St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital. The message was this: Give thanks for the healthy kids in your life and give to those who are not.

I love this message. It makes me realize how fortunate I am to have two healthy children. Not everyone does. There's no guarantee, even, that my kids will stay healthy. My mom had two healthy kids for 34 years, then I got breast cancer.

St. Jude's is one recipient of my charitable giving. The place operates on donations alone and a whopping 85 percent of what they receive goes to the care of sick kids, like three-year-old Patient of the Month Tristan who has been fighting acute lymphoblastic leukemia since March 2007. Donations are how this hospital, located in Memphis Tennessee, is able to treat little ones like Tristan, regardless of ability to pay.

Click on the magnifying glass right here to see exactly what I saw that day I sat in a movie theater with my healthy four-year-old. See if it motives you, like it did me, to help the kids whose lives are anything but certain.