Tonight's picture was taken in October of 2007. There was a Fall Festival at Mattie's School and though he was only at this particular School for a month by that point, he already had friends and wanted to attend the event. This was truly wonderful because leaving Mattie's preschool community was very hard for us, and even Mattie did not want to leave preschool. Mattie met his buddy Kazu (in orange) in the summer of 2007, when I enrolled him in a half day summer camp. That was my strategy to help Mattie get to know children at the school before the Fall of 2007! In this photo is also Campbell (with the white t-shirt), who Mattie met in his kindergarten class and they became close friends. The two girls pictured here are Bethie (Kazu's sister) and Livi (Campbell's sister). Needless to say they all had a great time together at the Festival, running around, getting their faces painted, and going on moon bounces.
Quote of the day: Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on. ~ Louis L'Amour
I started writing yesterday and today I spent the day at home by the computer. I continued writing and putting my thoughts together. Fortunately things are flowing which I am happy about. I was really struggling for the past several weeks. I have carved out more writing time for the rest of the week too and have tried to identify targets of what I want to accomplish each day, so I am hoping I can meet them. That would certainly put me in a much better mental state and on the trajectory to having some sort of draft by my deadline. Having done a chapter this summer certainly helped because a lot of the research was already accumulated and the structure of how to write a chapter was already fresh in my head. Nonetheless, the discipline of sitting still and trying to get my thoughts across is tedious and at the end of the day I want to completely disengage from the computer.
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