Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Tuesday, March 10, 2020 -- Mattie died 545 weeks ago today. 

Tonight's picture was taken in March of 2009. We were all in the child life playroom at the Hospital, and celebrating the official ribbon cutting ceremony for the room. When Mattie was initially diagnosed in July of 2008, there was NO playroom at the hospital. Instead, the only space children had was in the hallways or their hospital rooms. I assure you it made life 10 times harder, as a hospital room is very confining, and having another space with activities made the time more bearable. Though the playroom was opened in the fall of 2008, the ribbon cutting took place in March. As you can see the Toys R Us mascot, Gilbert the giraffe, was on hand to celebrate the occasion and gave Mattie a high five. 


Quote of the day: Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Yesterday, March 9th, we experienced an amazing moon. The worm moon is the first full moon in the month of March. The moon in March has a lot of different nicknames: the Worm Moon, because the ground begins to thaw and earthworms reappear, soon followed by the return of robins.

Peter captured this wonderful Mattie Moon from our living room!

Sunny had his senior well visit today and before taking him, we took him to Roosevelt Island for a 3 mile walk. Along our journey we saw this momma dear with her baby. Peter and I were talking so I did not even see her, it was Sunny who stopped in his tracks and had a staring contest with the deer. 

The baby. Of course whenever I see a momma animal and her baby, I can't help but think of Mattie. As Mattie loved to tell him that these animal pairings were like him and me.