Tonight's picture was taken in July of 2007. Mattie was five years old and as you can see was enjoying his time in his pool on our deck. Mattie seemed to get a new kiddie pool each summer and by 2007, the pool was so large it took up about a 1/3 of our deck space. Mattie loved it! It wasn't so much that Mattie loved the notion of cooling off, or even splashing around in the water. What he did enjoy was taking his cars and trucks outside, throwing them in the water, and coming up with all sorts of play scenarios in the pool.
Quote of the day: When a child dies, a parent loses a part of themselves,” he said. “Your whole world ceases to exist and you’re nothing but a shell of the person you once were. Your mom has dealt with it in her way, me in mine, and you in yours.” He lifted his hand off John’s gravestone and rose. “Your mom hates the world, I avoid it, and you try to save it. ~ Nicole Williams
Tomorrow Peter and I will be launching Mattie Miracle's new website. We have been working on this site for a good chunk of the summer. Peter really wanted the site to go live on Mattie's diagnosis anniversary date, in memory of Mattie. Designing the site, creating the content, and dealing with all the technological issues have been challenging. Challenging because it is us who are basically managing this undertaking. We really needed to create a new website from the ground up in order to reflect our mission and to showcase our objectives and achievements. In the course of designing the website, Peter came up with some infographics. These illustrations never made it to the website, but I still love them and they highlight facts in a plain and simple manner. As they say...... a picture is worth a thousand words!
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