Wednesday, November 14, 2012Tonight's picture was taken on November 13, 2007, Peter's birthday! Mattie always liked to bake a cake to celebrate such an occasion. This photo captured happier times.
Quote of the day: Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your modus operandi and change your world. ~ Annie Lennox
Today was the last candy collection day. I expected perhaps a bag or two, but to my surprise there was more delivered and a ton to carry and sort. When we finally get the total sorted, I will take a picture with the bags so you can see the significance of this candy drive. It is almost hard to believe how much candy we are talking about!
Mattie's school has a brownie troop. One of the candy pick ups today was the contributions from this troop. Which was significant! The creativity of the kids however was very touching. On one of their candy collection boxes you can see a picture of Mattie with Patches. In addition, the children covered all the lollipops with white tissue and then they drew a face on each tissue. So the covered lollipops look like ghosts. You can see them in the box. 
On the majority of candy bags the children gave us are beautifully drawn hand colored pictures. Don't you just love this pumpkin!?
Many of the candy bags say, "for Mattie." The children in this brownie troop never met or knew Mattie. Yet their troop leaders read the blog and know fellow parents at Mattie's school who did know Mattie. When the children wrote "for Mattie" on their bags, what they meant was this candy was given in honor of Mattie. This troop's kindness meant a lot to me because the pictures illustrate that Mattie's story has been shared and his memory remains alive in this group of children. 
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