Tonight's picture was taken in March of 2004. In a way it is a follow up photo from the one I posted last night. In both cases, the photo was taken at the Children's Museum in DC. It was a room with a vehicle theme, which was right up Mattie's alley. Right from day one, Mattie was fascinated by cars, trains, buses, trucks, and planes. Mattie could watch these things go by all day long. So actually standing on the back of a fire truck was intriguing to Mattie.
Quote of the day: Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. ~ Helen Keller
I woke up this morning and distinctly remembered my dream. It was so real and awful that it would have been hard to forget. I rarely remember my dreams at all! But in this one Mattie was alive and was sitting in my lap so I could talk with him. However, it wasn't an easy conversation we were having. Instead it was the reality that Mattie was dying and I was the one appointed to tell Mattie this news and to explain to him what dying meant. The subject matter of the dream was disturbing, but it was also a very vivid dream in the sense that it seemed like Mattie was in the room with me. I can still picture his big brown eyes staring at me from my dreamy state. When I woke up I was disoriented as to what had just happened and questioned what the dream meant.
Peter and I both realized that these clothes were dry cleaned three months before Mattie was diagnosed with cancer. The dry cleaning receipt made us pause. It actually was disorienting because who ON EARTH would guess that a dry cleaning receipt and the clothes that went with it would survive LONGER than Mattie??? We would never have imagine such a thing was possible, but it reminded us once again how life can change from one minute to the next, and we honestly have no idea or control over the future.
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