Sunday, April 29, 2018

Sunday, April 29, 2018

Tonight's picture was taken in April of 2008. Mattie was in kindergarten and I had the opportunity to visit his class that particular day. What Mattie was showing me was his "writer's workshop" creation. Mattie was NOT a fan of this creative writing component of his class. I am not certain why, since Mattie was creative. I think Mattie did not have confidence in his ability to write letters, words, or read. Which I know with more support he would have grasped. What is harder to teach is creativity. This came naturally to him and enabled him to tell a good story.  



Quote of the day: Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

Walk plans continued today! I snapped a few photos so you get the drift of how the Walk can take over our home! Indie, our cat, took to Sunny's bed today. That's a new one for her!

In these bins are hundreds of colorful plastic cups. Cups that are used to denote a completed lap by participants of our Walk. The participants then push the cup through our challenge wall at our event.  

This is what the cups look like! Each color represents a Walk team. 

Our challenge wall... in which cups get pushed through! Each cup represents an entire lap completed. 

Meanwhile in these boxes are some of our Foundation posters that we display at the Walk. At this point we have hundreds of posters, and of course do not feature every single one of them each year. 

Fortunately Peter took these boxes out of storage this week, so we can assess what we will use at the Walk and what we still need to create. 

Mattie's room! There are stacks of things all around the periphery of the room that relate to the Walk! Soon I will be delivering these raffle items to my friend Carolyn (our Raffle Chair), and as these items disappear, it will room for others.