Tonight's picture was taken on May 11, 2009. As my faithful readers have been seeing all week long, I have posted photos from the first Mattie March. Which was basically the Walk his care community planned for us while Mattie was alive. From that March, our Foundation Walk evolved and grew. Mattie was surrounded by his close buddies in this photo. The head you see in the corner of the photo is Brandon, Mattie's Big Buddy (a fellow childhood cancer survivor). Brandon and Mattie battled cancer around the same time. Behind Mattie, was his very close preschool buddy, Zachary and the little right next to Mattie is Bethie. Bethie is my friend Junko's daughter. Mattie was good friends with Bethie and her brother, Kazu. In fact, Kazu was the first friend Mattie met in his elementary school. What Mattie and Bethie were examining in that cup Mattie was holding were caterpillars. Which I explained a few nights ago in the blog! Mattie loved collecting tent moth caterpillars, whenever he saw them. He also loved sharing his affection for them with others. I have no idea if Bethie loved this or hated the notion, but she was a good sport and like me, you can tell she seemed perplexed that there were caterpillars and NOT liquid in that cup!
Quote of the day: A healer is someone who seeks to be the light that she wishes she had in her darkest moments. ~ Vironika Tugaleva
We loaded up the car today and drove all the raffle baskets to my friend Carolyn's house. Carolyn is our raffle Walk chair and she has coordinated our raffle, FIVE years in a row. The raffle is a LARGE undertaking and I for one am thrilled to have these items out of my living space. I need the space to take on the next walk assembly project. So I am thrilled Carolyn holds onto these items for me and transports them to the Walk because they are huge, heavy, and very bulky!
2 Tickets to a Caps Home Game (Section 114, Seats D 6 & 7)
2 Signed Hockey Sticks
Marcus Johansson Autographed Card
Jason Chimera Autographed Caps Game
Puck
Framed photo of Ovechkin w/piece
of 2008 Game Net
3 Bobble Heads (Nicklas Backstrom,
Troy Brouwer, and
Mike
Green)
Caps Baseball Hat
Caps cooler, technology gloves,
drawstring bag, & magnets
$100 Gift Coin to Clyde's Restaurant + Five 50th Anniversary t-shirts
$50 Gift Certificate to Del Ray
Cafe (Alexandria, VA)
$25 to Great American Restaurant
Group
$75 Gift Certificate to La
Bergerie (Alexandria, VA)
$50 to Maggiano's Restaurant
$100 Gift Card to McCormick and
Schmick's
Peking Gourmet Inn - One Duck
$50 Gift Card to Taqueria el
Poblano (Alexandria, VA)
$50 Gift Card to Tempo (Alexandria,
VA)
$50 Gift Certificate to Virtue Feed
and Grain (Alexandria, VA)
$100 Gift Card to Zoe's Kitchen
Clyde's 50th Anniversary Book, How
We Do Business
Bicycle Wine Rack, Pinwheel, and
two spatulas
It has been a full day of work for us, and we have another full day ahead of us tomorrow. So I am signing off for today!
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