Sunday, January 13, 2019

Sunday, January 13, 2019

Tonight's picture was taken in January of 2005. I had wanted to do a holiday themed activity for Mattie's preschool class. When I mentioned this to Margaret, Mattie's teacher, she suggested I wait until January and then do gingerbread houses with the kids. Sounded good in theory, but I never made a gingerbread house before from scratch. So I had a steep learning curve, along with making royal icing, purchasing candy and so forth. I landed up making two houses for the classroom and the kids had a ball. In fact, all the classrooms at the school got to come in and participate. Mattie got to take the houses home with him, and you can see that made him happy. 


Quote of the day: Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together. ~ Vista M. Kelly

It has been snowing in Washington, DC since yesterday. It is still coming down this evening. I am grateful that Peter took Sunny out yesterday and today. Sunny doesn't seem to mind the cold or the snow. Unlike me! 

Notice what Sunny was up to.... looking for squirrels! As if it was any routine day. 

The streets and sidewalks appear to be a mess around us, which will make for an interesting start to the work week. 

Peter tells me people were walking in the streets, because the sidewalks were a mess. 

Sunny was walking on a sidewalk. Or what used to be a sidewalk. 

I spent the entire weekend working on Mattie Miracle's 10th anniversary video. In addition, I am trying to brainstorm how to do our Foundation presentation at Mattie's school on January 22. Given this is not an age group I am comfortable working with, it makes the planning of this presentation difficult.