Tonight's picture was taken in January of 2004. Mattie was a year and half old and by this time he was walking independently. Mattie gravitated to cardboard boxes early in life. He loved stacking them, drawing on them, building with them, and even getting inside of them and pretending they were cars, trains, and planes! Life with Mattie was never boring.
Quote of the day: Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus. ~ Alexander Graham Bell
I was determined today to get things done. Graham's quote is quite accurate, as a lot can happen once I can focus. In December, Mattie Miracle received a $10,000 donation from a credit union. Since that time, I have wanted to sit down and compose a personalized thank you note to their board for selecting us as well as generate bullet points that could be used for a press release they agreed to work on with us. A month later, I still hadn't done it! That hasn't been sitting well with me, so today I wasn't going to do anything else until the letter and bullet points were generated! Mission accomplished! From there, I went back to the Foundation's website and updated our entire 2022 donor list. That list alone took me days to complete. But I did it!
Now I turn my focus to January's Foundation newsletter. In addition to this work, I will be participating in a five hour long deposition on Wednesday. I was asked to serve in this capacity due to my former work on my professional licensure board. The only way I am able to devote five hours to this on Wednesday is because my dad is going to his memory care center and I told my mom that she has to occupy herself until I am off of the Zoom call.
There are tree cutting machines, tree chippers, people all over the place, and loud noises that actually shake our house. The fun on the farm is never ending!
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