Tonight's picture was taken in November of 2007. We were at Roosevelt Island walking around and Mattie did his usual routine of climbing on some of the rocks. In hand was an interesting leaf he found. Mattie never left the Island empty handed. He typically came home with large sticks, rocks, and leaves! We had many collections in our garden area at the time generated by Mattie.
Quote of the day: Eventually, everything goes away. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
The weather has become absolutely frigid and all I can say is I am so happy we took our small trees inside last weekend. We would have been scrambling around today in the wind trying to repot plants, which would have been less than pleasant. I wasn't thrilled having 2000 pounds of candy in our home and also all our trees inside last weekend. It practically felt like we had no living space. But now it all works out and it is lovely to have greenery around us. Especially now that all the trees are losing their leaves.
Peter and I continue to put the finishing touches on Mattie's room. We went out today to buy a new light fixture for Mattie's room, since the current one is a baseball light fan, with the fan blades being baseball bats. That was a great light for Mattie, but now it no longer fits the memories we wish to capture for the room. So it is these small touches that to me make the room special. I have already broken it to Peter that once we finish Mattie's room, we are moving onto our bedroom, which needs to be painted badly. Just as badly as Mattie's room.
Tomorrow a colleague of mine is hosting a jewelry party at her home in DC. I have known Laurie for over a decade and I own several of her artistic creations. Recently she approached me about having a party and giving 20% of her proceeds to Mattie Miracle. The beautiful part about this is she is allowing supporters to purchase items on her website from November 24 to December 31, and will give Mattie Miracle 20% of on-line sales. Very generous and thoughtful.
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