Saturday, April 22, 2017

Saturday, April 22, 2017

Tonight's picture was taken in May of 2006. Mattie was four years old and when I see this photo I can tell where we had just been. The balloon is the give away. Every time Mattie went to Harris Teeter (a grocery store), he would pick up a balloon and a sugar cookie (items offered to all kids shopping in the store). Mattie LOVED the fact that they didn't distribute cookies to kids with chocolate in it. Something he despised! As you can see Mattie guarded his balloon carefully and even when he got back home, the balloon was still attached to him. 




Quote of the day: The death of a baby is like a stone cast into the stillness of a quiet pool; the concentric ripples of despair sweep out in all directions, affecting many, many people. ~ John DeFrain

The next four days will be full of rain in Washington, DC. Not my favorite weather. But guess who doesn't mind it in the least? Sunny has his trusty raincoat and is like an all terrain vehicle. Nothing keeps him from a walk. 

Peter and I went to the Christmas Tree Shops in Waldorf, MD today. This is where we do some of our best Foundation raffle shopping. The store helps us with all sort of items to help pretty up the baskets and make them eye catching on the day of the Walk. I can't think of another store like it! It has everything and at wonderful prices. 

My friend Carolyn is our Raffle Chair. She has been helping us with the raffle from the year the Foundation held its first Walk, 2010. Carolyn purchases and donates many items to the raffle, which truly assists Peter and me. Carolyn and I also solicit companies for donations. So in essence the raffle is an event within a larger event. Any case here is my current raffle pile.

Believe it or not, I transform piles like above to eventually produce baskets like these. This was a previous year's baskets as I am still in the process of staging this year's!