Tonight's picture was taken in November of 2003. Mattie was a year and a half old. We took Mattie to Boston for Thanksgiving and one of the gifts Peter's mom gave Mattie was this talking Elmo. Mattie was absolutely mesmerized by this toy! He wanted to understand how it could move and talk. Elmo was Mattie's all time favorite Sesame Street character and he loved this gift so much that he even brought it to his preschool for show and tell!
Quote of the day: We have trauma, and we have grief. People die, and we find it baffling. Painful. Inexplicable. Grief is baffling. There are theories on how we react to death, how we cope, how we handle loss. Some believe the range of emotions mourners experience is predictable, that grief can be monitored, as if mourners are following a checklist. But sorrow is less of a checklist, more like water. It's fluid, it has no set shape, never disappears, never ends. It doesn't go away. It just changes. It changes us. ~ Mira Ptacin
Yesterday when I got the mail out of our post box, I saw a Christmas card sitting there. At first I thought it was for us, as the house number was the same, but I noticed the street was different. It was also not addressed to us. So the postman delivered the card to the wrong address. Literally it was meant to go to a house about four blocks away. Truthfully given all that I am dealing with, my initial thought was... I am going to toss the card! Then I thought about it and decided instead to get in the car and personally deliver the card to its intended recipient. Why was I compelled to do this?
I chalk it up to watching the Hallmark series called Signed, Sealed, and Delivered. Before moving to our house in 2021, I used to watch the Hallmark channel religiously. I see and live with enough unhappy endings in my real life, which is why Hallmark resonates with me! There are only happy endings on Hallmark! Where people learn, grow, and love each other! If life was only like a Hallmark movie! In any case, this is the premise of Signed, Sealed, and Delivered.........
When I picked up that Christmas card, what immediately came to mind is that perhaps there is an important message in this card! Perhaps someone is writing to support someone else and the words in this card could potentially transform someone's day! All these thoughts flooded my mind, which compelled me to get in the car and deliver the card! Who knows the nature of the card, but what I do know is WORDS can instill hope, make us feel comforted, and remind us WE ARE NOT ALONE. I am hoping this card provided all these things to the intended recipient!
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