I’ve had an extremely hard time watching videos of Carter, perhaps because the memories, although good ones, make me miss him even more. Recently I needed some real help, courage, hope and strength and I needed to hear Carter’s voice again. this Video reminds me of how much fun he was and how he just always made me smile. I hope you enjoy him as much as I do. Love You Boo!
View the video on our You Tube Channel http://youtu.be/GGIlNtVbAmc
There’s been good days and bad days.
Happy days and sad days.
Fun days and boring days.
Quiet days and LOUD days.
Sunny days and cloudy days.
Sober days and drunk days.
But for some reason, short days seem like long days… I can remember my last day with you 18 months ago like it was yesterday, but it feels like an eternity since I’ve snuggled with you on the couch, heard you laugh and say “da da!” Watched you roll around on the ground and play catch. Watched you bounce up and down in your bouncy chair and watch football with you mommy and daddy.
Time has no meaning, when your missing someone so much. You tend to get lost in time going from memory to memory of being together… some times I forget where I am altogether.
Mommies day is this Sunday, and she misses you so much! She blows you kisses day and night, we hope you get them in a bunch. I know we will do our best to live in the day and remember how special you ARE to us and how proud we are to call you our son, warrior, “boo”… you have touched so much… and we love you, we do!
I look forward to getting lost some more in those special memories…just wish I could get lost in snuggling with you my “boo”!
Love you very much,
Daddy and Mommy!
The Oak Tree
A mighty wind
Blew night and day
It stole the oak tree’s leaves away
Then snapped its boughs
And pulled its bark
Until the oak was tired and stark
But still the oak tree held its ground
While other trees fell all around
The weary wind gave up and spoke
How can you still be standing Oak
The oak tree said, I know that you
Can break each branch of mine in two
Carry every leaf away
Shake my limbs, and make me sway
But I have roots stretched in the earth
Growing stronger since my birth
You’ll never touch them, for you see
They are the deepest part of me
Until today, I wasn’t sure
Of just how much I could endure
But now I’ve found, with thanks to you
I’m stronger than I ever knew
~ Johnny Ray Ryder, Jr. ~
Hi Boo…We have had the opportunity to meet a lot of amazing people that have children who are “Heroes” in their parents eyes just as you were to us. Unfortunately there are so many of them that need all the strength and courage and hope they can get as they struggle with daily life with a sick child with a terminal illness, as I haven’t been able to make sense of it… all I can do is ask that you look over them all and grant them with the Heroic strength and courage you showed us in such a little time on this earth! I believe that this is why you were here and now are gone… they need your help, so please go to them and touch them with your smile and give them comfort that things will be alright if not just for a moment in their day today.
I miss you a lot… my life is broken with out you, but what is broken can be fixed… I just need to tap a 1/16th of your strength to do so. I know you graced me with your presence this morning and I wanted to say I really appreciated it.
I love you!
Daddyfizz
Hey little Boo…just wanted you to know I’m thinking about you.
Seconds turn into minutes…minutes into hours…hours into days…days into months…months into years.
But there isn’t a time I’ve let you leave my mind.
My heart is broken and it’s slow to heal.
It’s hard to look for positive ways to feel.
My days are cloudy and dark, except for those times I feel your spark.
I miss those days. I hate this haze. I wish it was just a phase.
I continually look for signs of your smile…perhaps in a butterfly…or beautiful flower.
I hear your laugh almost every hour.
Please come to visit me in my dreams, as I need a SEE you my cute Carter Bean.
—DaddyFizz
I love you so much Boo… Miss you more than ever!
I’m afraid that memories fade,
And those memories will come back to haunt me one day.
My heart is in pieces and all I can say is “I hope will be together someday.”
The darkness lingers on with momentary flashes of light. I see your smile it brings me might.
I’m afraid my life won’t be the same and I’m ashamed that I can’t be more of a man,
I desire more courage and strength that you had in a twinkle of your baby blue eyes.
I’m afraid to move forward because the farther I move forward, the farther I am from you.
As I approach your fourth bday I only have one wish, and that is it was your third,
I would kiss you and hug you and tell you how much I love you.
I so afraid! I’m so afraid!
I miss you so much I can barely stand, but I think of your strength in your smile, and I, try on a smile
and think of how special you are to the world and how many you touched!
I’m afraid they will forget you, so I will try to live for you and try to be courageous and be your hero as you were mine!
I love u!
Love Daddy!
Cancer will touch each and every one of us in our lifetime.
I have recently become a member of the Love Hope Strength team by taking part in
As many of you know I lost my son, Carter “Boo” Brotherton, to a rare genetic blood disorder called I-Cell disease in December of last year. “Boo” was a living example of Love! Hope! Strength! Although he didn’t have cancer, we learned first hand the trials and tribulations children with cancer go through when he underwent an experimental bone marrow transplant in January of 2008. We also learned how important bone marrow donors were to these kids who without a donor would be facing almost certain death, but with the right match would have an opportunity at a normal life cancer-free. In an effort to honor my “Boo” and other children with similar uphill battles, we have created Team Carter “Boo”. And almost fittingly we have our own Uphill battle of our own and we…they…need your help!
Please support me, and Love Hope Strength, by making a tax-deductible donation to help raise much needed funding to save lives around the world.
Please Visit www.lovehopestrength.org/site/team-carter/ and here you can meet the hikers of Team Carter “Boo” as well as make a direct donation to our cause. Be it a $5 donation or $500 donation it all helps! Also as a bonus for every $50 donated to our cause you will be entered in a raffel for some awesome prizes including a signed autographed jersey of
The Love Hope Strength Foundation (LHS) raises funds and awareness for cancer centers around the world through music-related events and promotions. Specifically, LHS supplies much needed testing and treatment equipment to cancer centers, raises awareness of global cancer issues and registers people to international bone marrow registries to find matches for patients in need.
Every day people die of cancer because they did not have access to basic screening and treatment, could not find a bone marrow donor or they were not aware of the signs of cancer. In the last 3 years, The Love Hope Strength Foundation purchased the first mammography machine and radiation treatment machine for the country of
Thank you in advance for joining me in the battle against cancer. Learn more about Pikes Peak Rocks and other LHS events at www.lovehopestrength.org.
Warmest regards,
Daddy Fizz
Hi Boo…I can’t believe it’s been six long months since we sat and played together, I gave you a bath and we cuddled on the couch. It seems like an eternity since you called out, “daddy”, I miss that so much, I looked forward to coming home to hear you say it and it hasn’t been the same… I think you would be proud of us though and I feel like you have really been giving us added strength each and everyday. Mom has started nursing school, can you believe that? She just passed her first two electives and I think she even surprised her self, but we both knew she could do it, she just needed a little help from you to go for it. I’ve recently started a new job, and it has been a great fit for me. The people are great and so is the job, It has given me a little confidence to build on, and I can feel you and see your great smile more clearly since I started.
I miss you so much Boo, and since today is 6 months since we last spoke, I just wanted to share some wonderful poems that were shared with me to help us, not move on, just have some peace with you leaving. I hope that we will see each other soon in my dreams.
Oh, I almost forgot, I going to be making a trek to the top of the world, (ok not the top of the world, but pretty close) Pikes Peak Rocks is July 31st and I’m getting together a team Carter to make the trek, and good news, you’re coming with. We’re going to carry you all the way up to the top so that we can bring you spirit and body that much closer, as we ascent to the heaven here on earth.
Any way, here are some great poems that have helped me and I just wanted to share them with you, I hope you are doing well, I miss you so much, and I will always love you… Mommy says Hi and of course she wants you to know that she loves you so much. Take care.
Dele Giwa
By Olufisayo Gale
We stand here today
Because we notice
Acknowledge a void
In time and space
In thought and reason
We feel it
Emptiness in our lives
He is gone
And even now so long after
The tears flow too readily
They do not stop
They do not pause
They see no reason to
There is no reason to
The pain remains, ever as strong
We stand here today
Because we acknowledge
The loss of your presence
And we acknowledge
There is nothing we can do
But pay homage and rejoice in
Our only true joy
We knew you
You graced our world
You taught us
And the angels are calling
I must go away
Wait for me here
Silently stay
And don’t ask me why
Only believe
this is no goodbye.
Piece of My Heart
By Daniel Montrey
Today we all say goodbye,
No answers or good reason
Just the thougth of why
No first steps, or being awaken by your cries late at night
No grumbles, about the size of you appetite
No fights over whose turn it is,
Mine, hers, one of the kids
No bottle washers, baby wipes, or grandma luvs me bibs
No teething rings, or little thing, that can cause you harm
Just left to ponder about what might have been
although our time was biref, today I lose a friend
I was told that God picks angels to sit by His side
I know when he picked you, he had to have cried
A Light taken before it had a chance to shine
It was said you needed a better heart
Well today you take a piece of mine.
Please stay in my heart and mind Boo, give us strength to move forward and please come visit me when you have time.
Love Daddy!
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