We’re all showing cracks these days.

The semi-permanent indentation from a brow furrowed by worry. The fissures at the fingertips, cuticles parched by constant handwashing.

We feel those fractures. And some days, we feel downright broken.

The latest blow delivered by the Coronavirus pandemic really knocked us down - more for what it did to a dozen amazing kids than to us. We had scheduled a huge clubhouse build for May 6 at Palmetto Bluff, and at the end of that day these dwellings would have been move-in ready for 12 young cancer patients. But safety concerns in the age of coronavirus forced us to postpone this event. It broke our hearts to tell these kids they'd have to wait - too much of their lives has already been put on hold.

So we called in empathic reinforcement from someone who knows a thing or two about being cracked and broken: Humpty Dumpty.

And then we hailed some fairytale royalty for, you know, a bit of star-studded, sparkle effect.

On the day originally earmarked for clubhouse construction, the 12 kids will participate in a live read-aloud (over Zoom, of course) with Queen Elsa of Erendelle. In advance of the storybook session, each child will receive a copy of Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat's "After the Fall," a cleverly-crafted and brilliantly-illustrated tale of Humpty Dumpty's life following his infamous incident. As the children follow along, Queen Elsa will share with her audience how the book's brave protagonist faces his newfound fear of heights and discovers that "life begins when you get back up." Following the reading, each child will get a one-on-one call with Elsa.

We simply couldn't let May 6 come and go without some replacement fanfare. The kids (as well as our KLH Group team and partners) had watched this date on the calendar with grand anticipation. It is our hope that the intermediate storybook event restores a little hope, speaks to inner heroes, and applies a loving bandage to a crack on the heart.

That batch of clubhouse kids will still get their sweet sanctuaries, as soon as we are able to get the build event rescheduled. When they do, they'll be over the moon... and maybe Elsa can return to tell us about the cow's experience with that (hey, diddle diddle).