Sunday, February 9, 2014

Sunday, February 9, 2014


Tonight's picture was taken in February of 2009. During that time period, Mattie seemed to love cupcakes. As you can see from this photo, he popped a mini cupcake into his mouth. But the story behind the cupcakes was the following..... Mattie wasn't eating much at that point in his treatment and we were also trying to encourage him to participate in physical therapy to relearn how to walk. The incentive system that I created for Mattie involved cupcakes. If he listened to Anna (his therapist) and tried his best in a session, then his reward was a cupcake. Between hospital admissions, I would go home and bake two dozen cupcakes and literally cart them with me to the hospital on admission day. I don't know where I got the energy to do this, but when it came to Mattie, I found the resources. 


Quote of the day: Sometimes you have got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding. ~ Simi Ngr

I am still under the weather today and have remained in bed all day. Peter captured some photos today of our snow flurries. It was quite a beautiful sight to see but what you can't tell is on the wooden fence and within these bushes are many, many sparrows. Hundreds of sparrows visit our deck each day and grace our feeders. When they are not on our feeders, they perch themselves in our bushes. Though this is the commons area of our plaza, I call these bushes ours, because Peter and Mattie literally planted all of them together. 

This photo reminds me of the 12 days of Christmas..... two turtle doves, but instead there is no partridge in a pear tree here!