Tonight's picture was taken in June of 2006. Mattie was playing in one of his favorite places..... a box! Mattie always had me laughing. He could be surrounded by toys, but if he had his way, he usually gravitated to a box first. It was his toy of choice. All he needed was his imagination! I think this was a surprise to his care team in the hospital, because I am not sure all kids select packing boxes to play with, but they caught on quick! Many of Mattie's psychosocial staff would save boxes for him and would give them to him at each admission. These boxes would be transformed into all sorts of things. But boxes in our home were appreciated by both Mattie and Patches. In fact it was almost a competition as to who could get into the box and claim it first!
Quote of the day: Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. ~ Lao Tzu
Today was a full day for both Peter and I. Peter just got back from Oklahoma and I started my day with a six hour licensure board meeting. We typically do not meet at the end of the month. But we had many issues that needed to be resolved. Some which were significant ethical issues! It is hard enough to have a long meeting like this, but then when the meeting is intense, contentious, and without food this is a recipe for disaster.
After this nightmare of a meeting, I had to come home and focus on our Foundation's June newsletter. Somehow June has escaped me and yet this newsletter has to be written. June is an important newsletter because it sums up our Walk activities. With that said, the whole thing feels like the perfect storm. Our newsletter system recently changed so how I upload photos has also changed, therefore, in order to display walk photos in the newsletter, I literally have had to create collages. Which is a much more labor intensive process than I bargained for. The newsletter photos alone have taken me days to create, so today I just began layout and writing.
I had hopes that perhaps I could do other things these past two days, but it has been impossible. I just can't seem to stop working and this to me is deeply frustrating and exhausting. So for now, I am signing off of the computer, since it is almost 11:30, Peter is home, and I need a change of venue!
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