Tonight's picture was taken in March of 2009. It may look like Mattie was being wheeled down the hallway with a group of people, but with Mattie it was never just simple. Instead there was singing going on with this troop to ABBA music. Surrounding Mattie was Mary (in the blue jacket, who was a child life volunteer), Meg (who was a child life intern), and Brandon (Mattie's big buddy). Next to me was of course Linda (Mattie's child life specialist). We never went too far without Linda. She made life bearable for us in the hospital.
Quote of the day: Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. ~ Leo Buscaglia
I spent a majority of my day parked in front of a computer. I am trying to design our Foundation's Walk website from the ground up. The reason we need to do that this year is because the Walk is completely different and involves individuals and teams raising money for us prior to the day of the Walk. In addition, we need a mechanism for individuals to be able to register as teams and to also be able to fundraise for us online using secure websites. So thankfully Peter found the technology on line, but now I am trying to design a majority of the webpage myself.
In the past our Walk webpage was designed by Peter from scratch. I actually loved the old site. It had a very personal feeling to it and we were able to use our own photos and Mattie's art work. However, given all that we need from this new website, we have to use a template designed by a company. We can try to tweak the template to have more of our colors and certainly our content, but it can never look like the original website Peter created. It was hard to say good-bye to Peter's original Walk website, but I know that given what we need now, we have no choice.
Over the course of the last two weeks I have studied other walk, run, and race websites to glimmer content from them that I wanted to add to our website. So slowly but surely our site is getting built. But there are certainly things I do not understand and today for example I was getting frustrated so I got into a live chat session with the company that makes the software for the Walk website. The funny part is by the time I finished with him, he was just as confused. So literally I had to give him an example of what I was talking about. I literally told him..... "we are going to create a walking team. You and I are the Apple Team. You are the team captain and I am a team member," etc! Examples help, because by the time I finished we both got it!
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