Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Tonight's picture was taken in October of 2007. Mattie was five years old and attending a Fall Festival. How do you like this HUGE slide? As you can see it was so big, Mattie chose to try it with Peter in tow. I was always the designated family photographer, and fortunately I was! I took pictures of what the average person would say was the mundane. However, now that I no longer have Mattie in my life, it is amazing how even the mundane is special. Childhood cancer does transform your life and perspective. When Mattie was a preschooler, he was deathly afraid of slides. He wouldn't even climb up one, and forget about going down. This was something we worked with him on, to the point that eventually he loved them!
Quote of the day: I often wished that more people understood the invisible side of things. Even the people who seemed to understand, didn't really. ~ Jennifer Starzec
I went to pick up another large candy donation today. It is truly exhausting to pick up candy, transport it, sort it, and then organize it. When you are dealing with thousands of pounds of candy, it requires you to have your wits about you. The candy is sorted, bagged, and then placed in a bin. But I want each bin to have an assortment of candy in it, so I have to make sure when I load the bins, I am paying attention to what I am grabbing.
Tomorrow, a group of volunteers is meeting at the house where the candy is stored, to help sort more candy. So tonight, I literally unloaded candy from the garage out of six bins and staged it in the hallway. I want volunteers to have easy access to candy, to make this impossible job slightly easier. It is the lifting and carrying of the candy that is a wipe out.
So this is what my evening entailed..... reorganizing bins in the garage, moving in candy to be sorted, and then moving out these piles of sorted candy and placing it into bins. I am telling you it is a show of grand proportion.
Unfortunately tomorrow, doesn't look much different than today.
Tonight's picture was taken in October of 2007. Mattie was five years old and attending a Fall Festival. How do you like this HUGE slide? As you can see it was so big, Mattie chose to try it with Peter in tow. I was always the designated family photographer, and fortunately I was! I took pictures of what the average person would say was the mundane. However, now that I no longer have Mattie in my life, it is amazing how even the mundane is special. Childhood cancer does transform your life and perspective. When Mattie was a preschooler, he was deathly afraid of slides. He wouldn't even climb up one, and forget about going down. This was something we worked with him on, to the point that eventually he loved them!
Quote of the day: I often wished that more people understood the invisible side of things. Even the people who seemed to understand, didn't really. ~ Jennifer Starzec
I went to pick up another large candy donation today. It is truly exhausting to pick up candy, transport it, sort it, and then organize it. When you are dealing with thousands of pounds of candy, it requires you to have your wits about you. The candy is sorted, bagged, and then placed in a bin. But I want each bin to have an assortment of candy in it, so I have to make sure when I load the bins, I am paying attention to what I am grabbing.
Tomorrow, a group of volunteers is meeting at the house where the candy is stored, to help sort more candy. So tonight, I literally unloaded candy from the garage out of six bins and staged it in the hallway. I want volunteers to have easy access to candy, to make this impossible job slightly easier. It is the lifting and carrying of the candy that is a wipe out.
So this is what my evening entailed..... reorganizing bins in the garage, moving in candy to be sorted, and then moving out these piles of sorted candy and placing it into bins. I am telling you it is a show of grand proportion.
Unfortunately tomorrow, doesn't look much different than today.
1 comment:
Vicki, I too wish people understood the side of invisible things! I wonder why so many can't. Do people really have to experience these things to truly understand the impact, they have on others? I wonder about this a lot! Especially how it relates to understanding loss!
Post a Comment