Sunday, September 1, 2013

Sunday, September 1, 2013

Tonight's picture was taken
in September of 2008. Mattie was home between treatments and a friend gave him this singing and dancing yellow bird in the background. What you may not be able to tell was that as the bird was singing, and its head was bopping up and down, Peter and Mattie were dancing right along with the bird. Which was why I snapped this photo. Though there were many, many upsetting and depressing moments in Mattie's treatment, there were glimmers of fun just like this which I tried to capture. There was nothing normal about our life back then so the fact that there were times in which we smiled and laughed was a testament to Mattie's strength and his bond with us.


Quote of the day: There are two ways to spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. ~ Edith Wharton

Peter and I are absolutely exhausted tonight. We have been painting for two days straight. Slowly our first floor is getting transformed. Our ceilings went from a dull grey to a sparkling white! I am thrilled to see white ceilings and we selected a very Mattie Miracle color for our walls. Seven years ago we painted our walls a light peach color. Now as you maybe able to see we selected a color called luminary! It is a beautiful sunny peach! It makes our space glow, just as if a ray of sun was illuminating the room!

Here is a another photo of the chaos we are living in! Peter and I are a great painting team, because he can handle the rolling and the big jobs associated with painting, and I am great on a ladder and with details. But we are learning about muscles tonight that we never knew we had! Everything aches. We only have baseboards tomorrow, so we really put LABOR, into this labor day weekend.