"Terrible sandwich" review goes viral, family travels to make "visual memories," more uplifting news

Welcome to Uplift, come on, we have a great show for you today and a great cast of characters, starting with a kid who went

viral

for his honesty, I mean, very honest, Sandwich, check out what he's up to now with his new fan from Internet. We'll tell you in a moment and a girl with a terrifying diagnosis in two years to live How she overcame the odds and became a star a mother with three children who are losing their vision what she's doing to give them a lifetime of

visual

memories

oh this is cool she's doing it before it's too late and then a kid who donated his own money to

make

a wish so he could build something special and we also have a cowboy from California with a connection to a queen that's right how the unlikely pair formed a friendship.

From that, in addition to our most touching videos, you just need to see that you are watching The Uplift. Hello what's going on? I'm Nate Burleson and this is The Uplift, the program that lifts you up for the next 30 minutes. Now children are usually the ones. To cheer us up, they tend to say what they think and those unfiltered thoughts end up being pretty funny. Our first story is about a boy who became famous for doing just that and sharing what was on his mind. Caitlin, she's fine, she's got

more

going on than not. What do you expect a kindergartener to say when he gets off the bus on his first day of school, but Abe and Dege are an honest person on the first day of kindergarten, good day, friends, playground, small, nothing

more

, lunch table,

sandwich

, nothing more, foreigner, can you? be familiar with Abe, he went

viral

this year for that honest

review

of his lunch, his mom Ricky posts the same

terrible

sandwich

video every year, the difference is what happened this year is that instead of just posting it on my friends, on my Instagram account and in my stories.

I posted it on Tick Tock for the first time and then Tick Tock did its thing and it really went viral, so now we know why Abe has become known as the

terrible

sandwich boy, but what's the story behind the sandwich? I did not realize. I needed to pack Ava's sandwich because in our town kindergarten is still a half day and I thought the benefit of a half day is that I didn't have to

make

them lunch. I was wrong, we didn't have anything in the house that we couldn't send. peanut butter because of kids with peanut allergies, so I got the idea to make a butter and jelly sandwich when I took a bite at school.

Really terrible sandwiches. He is now in fourth grade and that moment has made him famous at school I will definitely be recognized I hired new bodyguards I am always running with that sandwich a crowd of sleeping children after drawing attention for his unexpected criticism even his mother decided to focus attention on Others of us launched terrible sandwich.com as a way to try to raise funds and awareness to combat childhood hunger, it's a cause that is close to our hearts and we wanted to use this small moment in the spotlight to try to give back and do something good, so we have terrible sandwich merchandising that comes out terrible. sandwich by the way and thanks for informing me merchandising thanks for informing me halfway prophets go to hungry children all over the world I guess all over the world you went viral for saying what's on your mind and what's on your mind these days no It's terrible in All I feel about this little time in fame is that I don't love every single one of me.

I want part of this funding for someone else. A frozen country like a billion billion starving children around the world. I don't want to. everything is coming to me, I'm not going to lie to you if I get off the bus and tell my mom that her sandwich was terrible, she's not going to like it, she's not going to like it at all, she's going to look at me and say, you better Eat what I make and you better like it That's how I grew up. Well, four-year-old Celine was given a terrifying diagnosis when she was a baby and given just two years to live, not only did she beat the odds, but she is now on the runway and breaking stereotypes.

CBS' Lisa Petrillo from Miami tells the story of four-year-old Celine Demowski, who is busy riding her unicorn at her mom's condo on the beach while she prepares to walk in a very important fashion show. I'm doing a fashion show, are you excited, so what are you doing? at the fashion show I'm supposed to do a spin while Celine practices her spin. Her mother Amber Joy Watkins tells us that when the beautiful Celine was just a baby, she and her husband Tom Demowski felt that something was not quite right with her baby. She was about three months old.

I noticed that she wasn't, you know, rolling around or kicking or just doing some of the things that I saw other kids doing in my mom and I's yoga class. At first, her pediatrician told her that Celine was fine, but Amber Joy was. said something was wrong a few months later she was told to seek a neurologist immediately the diagnosis SMA or spinal muscular atrophy Celine has the most severe type of SMA Type 1 and it is a disease that affects all the muscles in the body, so it affects gross motor skills. ability to swallow, ability to breathe and all the muscles in the lower body, similar to ALS, a terrifying diagnosis that left her parents understandably devastated and life expectancy without treatment is two years, so it was a Very scary diagnosis, but soon there was hope, I mean.

More than a ray of hope the moment they told you Hi, there are these treatments that are coming out on the market and you know we don't know much about them, but we're going to try them, we're going to try them clean. She is very fortunate to have received treatment and that is why we are here today. She is a great lifesaver. Celine continues to go from strength to strength, in fact, she has big plans for the future. What do you want to be when you grow up? A doctor, a doctor or a chef, any of them were the perfect choice last week to open New York Fashion Week.

Celine, her mother and others with CMA hit the runway wearing designs they adapted with Open Style Lab. The show is sponsored by Genentech as part of SMA. my way program that was created to support and raise awareness about the SMA community. We are reclaiming our space in the fashion world to let people know that there is a space for disabled people. Watching Celine Walk The Runway was a stolen moment in the parade her mom is waiting for. will help change long-held stereotypes for Celine and others like her. I just want people to see that Celine is fashionable, she is beautiful, smart, beautiful and intelligent, even with SMA, her walk on the runway is helping people run figuratively and literally turn up three. brothers who lose their vision with a mother who discovered a way to help them live life to the fullest.

They say the best thing they can do is fill their

visual

memory and they talked about it by reading books and seeing pictures of elephants and giraffes. and books and that's when it clicked, plus our heartwarming videos that you just need to see stay there you're watching The Uplift foreigner welcome back to Uplift now we have our heartwarming videos that you just need to see starting with this one taken at the graduation ceremony for a t-side university in the north of England, I mean come on, come on, when you hear a baby's voice you can't help but smile.

I love that video, now watch our next video where the brother meets his sister's boyfriend for the first time. time Mr. Bucket hat hey buddy, are you going to jump into my arms here? What's up dude? I can, a crazy dream, oh, man, hey, man, it's like I had a crazy dream, so here's the deal: Nate, who traveled from Chicago to Nashville to meet his sister Lindsay's boyfriend, Lindsay , told us that they FaceTimed often before meeting in person, so they clearly hit it off. Oh, I love that video. Okay, the video below shows a boy named Junie on a field trip to a fire station.

Junior who is blind. I have to do it. Meeting a firefighter for the first time meant filling out his uniform and his gear, listening to the sounds his gear made, and asking all the questions he wanted. His mom said she was his favorite part of his trip. How about a more moving video? one is Tatiana and Preston who are trying to have the first baby and we are about to see a pregnancy test, check it out, look it's there, it's in the middle, yes, it will say not pregnant, oh my god, and if you say? baby no way no way no way and now Tatiana and Preston are parents to a beautiful two month old baby girl named Ayanna.

Congratulations for coming. Meet a mother of four who stays positive. Even though three of her children are losing their vision. What is she doing to do? Surely they have full lives besides the boy who made a wish and chose to use it on something selfless in the California cowboy who had a special friendship with the queen, yes, the queen, the one about how they met decades ago in a foreigner who is traveling around the world. for an entire year and there's a good reason for the epic journey Caitlin O'Kane tells the story that many mothers dream of their children growing up and seeing the world, but when three of her four children began to have vision problems, Edith Lemay learned it was time to do that.

Maybe he's running out. His oldest daughter, Mia, started bumping into things and was diagnosed with a genetic disease known as retinitis pigmentosa. What it does is the original retina dies. The cylindrical retina dies over time. and they lose their vision shield, so they will lose vision from the outside to the center and in the end they will see through it, it is like seeing through a straw and there is a possibility that they will go completely blind in middle age, then his two youngest sons began to exhibit the same. symptoms and she found out they had them too, of course, it was devastating.

And you know, when you have a child, you always have an image of what the future is going to be like and what your future is going to be like and everything. suddenly you get that

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and you need to erase it and think, think, think about it and it really is a grieving process. She thought about teaching them Braille, but a specialist had another suggestion and they told her that the best thing they can do is to fill their visual memory and they were talking about reading books and seeing pictures of elephants and giraffes and books and that's when it clicked and like If I wasn't going to do that in the books, I'll go see them in real life in In March they left Canada and embarked on an epic journey traveling the world for an entire year showing their children the world before it was too late.

We spoke to them at their stop in Bali. They had already crossed Africa from Namibia to Tanzania. They visited Türkiye and Mongolia. and they planned to make their way through Asia. Then your kids are excited about almost anything, they don't move through it, um, with the urge to see things and remember things that they don't think about, oh, it might be the last time you see that. Or they are really in the moment and enjoying it. They made a list of things to do together, allowing each child to see their dreams come true. So MIA loves horses so she really wanted to ride horses and we did it in Mongolia and she felt so free after riding horses that she liked it, she had tears in her eyes because she was so happy because it was really It was beautiful to see Colin, what he wanted to do was sleep on a train, so when we went on the Tazara in Tanzania and we had like all our bunks on the train and we slept rocked by the movement of the train he was super happy and in the little one every time what he wanted to do is um he wanted to get juice on a camel which was very specific and we thought it was really fun and we actually did it when we were in Mongolia we were riding a camel and we got him some juice just so he would take a photo and he was super happy.

Edith said her children are not only creating

memories

, they are learning valuable life lessons, like focusing on the positive. I want you to know that any difficult situation is temporary because throughout your life you will need many Brazilians because you are going to adapt to a situation with your eyesight and then, a few years or a few months later, you will lose another part of your eyesight and you will need to readapt and adapt again and fall and come back again. All parents want the world for their children and Edith gave it to hers, true, you may have heard of little free libraries where neighbors can leave books for each other, but what is a dog?

CBS Minnesota's Kirsten Mitchell Library explains when we passed by he found a bowl of water and practically demolished everything on Wilson Street in northeast Minneapolis I love dogs like Murphy they are sniffing something special made just for them picking up toys picking up leashes picking up bags of poop because everyone should pick up their poop please it's a dog library where people can share old items or take what they need your neighbors came over with a small bouquet after I lost Charlie just two and a half weeks ago and we started talk about putting out things that we could share with other neighboring dogs, that's when the idea sparked.really cute dog wallpaper on the tile floor and Will Mound got to work quickly about three days, actually, just yeah, I just looked in the garage besides the dog.

Library. Will Mound is also known for his creative projects in the neighborhood. He also created a small free library. and you will find these little wooden fairy doors stained all over the area. It was one of the first rounds of layoffs at the beginning of the pandemic and it was hard to find work at the time, so I needed something to do and it was kind of my way out, it's not just the love of dogs that brings these neighbors together, it's the shared loss of losing a dog over the last year, we lost our dog Harold a little over a year ago, Dan and Emily lost Hank, yeah, it's been nice because I mean.

We all experienced it at the same time, so we can lean on each other a little bit that way and Lisa lost Charlie. His names now appear in the library. It was very personal and very nice for me to see Charlie. name up there there's so much out there right now that's negative so it's nice to feel something new touching hearts and new snouts on Wilson Street everyone's getting new dogs now so in Minneapolis Kirsten Mitchell WCCO 4 News everyone's going to have a dog, but not me, honey, a brosen toy. Did you see that? Look at those smiles on their faces.

I'm talking about dogs and people. Well, come here. Meet the boy who received the Make-A-Wish and decided to use it for something that could benefit other children. Which one was his? I hope we tell you, besides the cowboy and the queen, how did this couple form an unlikely friendship? I thought she was a boyfriend, I said, nice to meet you, I stepped back and said, oh my God, oh, you're the queen and yeah. Last time I checked, many children with critical illnesses were given the opportunity to choose a Make a Wish Quinn Larson did something unique with her CBS's Susan Elizabeth Littlefield Minnesota has the story life can be full of ups and downs the Larson

family

knows this well.

The oldest son, Quinn, fell out of a window and then contracted meningitis, lost his hearing and the ability to speak, but never lost his drive. I clearly remember when we first met Quinn in 2019, he was a kid with a dream and a long-range goal, he donated his. money to make a wish to make the dream of an accessible playground come true. I think the community raised 307 thousand dollars just to make it happen and the smallest, yeah, Adam Quinn money and a DNR grant and voila, what was once a cornfield is now a field of dreams and then it we built and they came and boy did about 500 people show up at Quinn's playground at one time the grounds are wheelchair accessible there is a resting place for children with autism art in sign language the swings are accessible and the zip line is accessible oh the zip line when you're on the playground so he can be included in some of the fun things you made this plan you made this is yours this is your dream a dream realized in silence and actions of strength speak louder than words in Waconia Susan Elizabeth Littlefield WCCO 4 News I've said it before, I'll say it again Children are the purest of the pure, so when Queen Elizabeth died, many stories emerged about her life, including one about an unlikely friend, a California cowboy, Mark Strassman. with history and this is the Queen's hall improbably indelible Monty Roberts became Queen Elizabeth's Horseman and more Her Majesty has treated me as if I were a younger brother Roberts revolutionized horse training by domesticating horses using a silent language of kindness in 1989 the queen with her lifelong love of horses invited him to her stables at Windsor Castle.

I thought he was a boyfriend. I said, "nice to meet you," and I stepped back and said, oh my gosh, oh, you're the queen and yes, last time I looked through the handwritten letters on an annual Christmas. Greetings framed her three-decade relationship. Did you consider her a friend? She would call her her majesty but the friendship was deep. Have you ever thought what am I doing hanging out with her majesty only two or three times a day and every night when she went to bed on Monday Monty Roberts is going to a friend's funeral still in shock I said no what and I don't want to let her go she will be with me every moment that I am alive a dark horse friendship the California Cowboy and the Queen, the cowboy in the rest of the world, I did not want to let her go, but her legacy lasts forever, that is our program.

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in these stories in Joy, pure joy, brightened your day and lifted you abroad.