Thursday, May 28, 2015

Thursday, May 28, 2015

Tonight's picture was taken in August of 2002. Mattie was four months old and by this point fully engaged with eating more solid foods, like baby cereal. In fact, Mattie loved rice cereal and baby oatmeal. So much so that as Mattie got older, oatmeal became his food of choice to start his morning. Every morning, like clock work he had oatmeal. He loved it that much! 

Quote of the day: We are what we repeatedly do. ~  Aristotle

Tonight's blog posting features some of the posters we had on display at the Walk. We had over 64 posters on site for people to view and read. Under our Registration tent we always feature a photo of Mattie. He is the reason why we created the Foundation and his memory is the driving force behind our psychosocial mission. As you can see, this little fellow seemed to like our posters and the hurdles they were positioned on. He fits right in. 

Also in the Registration Tent, was our Schedule of Events poster. 

Along the track, we place 51 posters. Twenty five of the posters were featured in this concentrated area. The posters had: 1) content on them about the Foundation, 2) they had childhood cancer facts, and 3) they also had photos of all the work we have accomplished to date addressing our core areas of Advocacy, Awareness, and Psychosocial Support. 

Here is a close up of some of these posters!

Throughout the event, our attendees wandered into this informational gallery to check out our posters. To me these posters are very important because they depict what we actual do, accomplish, and where our funds actually go!

As you can see the title of this poster was, "What does Mattie Miracle do?" We had many descriptive posters about Mattie Miracle on display, in addition to factual posters about childhood cancer and the psychosocial impact of the disease.

This was our creative poster to match teams to colored cups. Each team was assigned a color cup, and each team member earned a cup for each lap walked around the track. In essence the number of cups placed in our challenge wall helped us track the number of laps each team walked!

Our teams also brought their own posters! These were beauties! Team KW and Friends (which was comprised of members of the St. Stephen's and St. Agnes School community) and was captained by Debbie Keefe (Mattie Miracle's kid activity coordinator six years in a row!). These posters helped to pull Debbie's team together for a group photo, but they were also wonderful visuals for our banner photo.

Can you see Debbie's posters in the middle of this photo?!

Around the track we also had our 26 Faces of Hope posters! We created this project in 2012, and our participants find these posters very meaningful! On each poster is a photo and small description of a child or teen who is either in treatment or is a survivor. They are why we are walking and serve as reminders to those at the Walk that they are there to have fun, but their fun is for a purpose and good cause.... to raise money to help meet the psychosocial needs of children and teens, like the ones around the track. 

People really do look at the Faces of Hope posters and some even stop to take photos beside them.