Tonight's picture was taken in September of 2002. Mattie was five months old. As a baby, Mattie had some girth to him. As he developed from a preschooler into an elementary school student he became long, tall, and very slender. In fact, most kids and teens who I know have osteosarcoma have this same physical build... tall and lanky. What I love about this photo was Mattie was looking right at me, smiling, and absolutely was in love with rice cereal! In fact, Mattie's love for oatmeal also began as a baby. After he graduated from rice cereal, he moved onto baby oatmeal. The simple fact about Mattie was EVERYDAY of his healthy life he had oatmeal for breakfast. That was his food of choice!
Quote of the day: To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own. ~ Abraham Lincoln
The Foundation Walk is days away and today alone I have put in a 16 hour day. The night is young and I still have more to do. I had to go to AC Moore today to buy ribbon to make volunteer nametag lanyards! Typically I like going to AC Moore, but trying to calculate how many overall yards I would need today was higher order math and reasoning. Of which my brain just couldn't compute. I literally was in the store for over an hour and I caught the attention of the store manager because I was stacking and restacking ribbon spools! He never stopped me, but I am sure what I was doing was odd or intriguing. I wanted this to be an economical purchase, which is hard to do when I needed 490 yards of ribbon! Needless to say, I was free entertainment to many in the store!
I am headed back to do more work, but I appreciated the lovely message a Holton-Arms student posted to the blog yesterday. This is the school I visited last week. This student wanted me to know that she is coming to the Walk on Sunday because of me! Very sweet indeed!
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Peter, feel better soon
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