Tonight's picture was taken on October 17, 2008. Mattie was three months into treatment and that day he went to his school's campus to meet up with a friend. While there, the football team was practicing. They all came over to take photos with Mattie and to do a team cheer. The reason this was all possible was because the team's coach was a big supporter of Team Mattie. In the midst of thorough chaos and living on the edge day to day, I also had the opportunity to see a side of people within our community that was awe inspiring.
Quote of the day: Today's coronavirus update from Johns Hopkins.
- Number of people diagnosed with the virus: 44,019,917
- Number of people who died from the virus: 706,861
My alarm went off at 6am, and I honestly did not know what hit me. It was dark outside and I felt like I just went to sleep. But then it hit me..... the painters are coming this morning and I have to pull it together. They arrived at 8:30am and so far have been at it for 8 hours. Mind you they are painting a small area. You wouldn't think it would take that long. Of course given that the walls were an olive green, it has taken multiple coats of paint to transform them to Medici Ivory. It is my hope that within a day or so, I will have a fully functioning laundry room and I won't have to play multiple chairs. After all I can't keep much in that room now because first I had electricians in there for months, then I had people laying down tile, then I had people drywalling, and now painting.
Yet I remember that only about a month ago, doing laundry meant going outside my townhouse, in order to get inside the complex's lobby, to an elevator that took me down two floors to the basement. Naturally I couldn't carry my laundry and detergent all this way, so I had a wheeled cart. For 27 years this is how I have done laundry, even with a baby in tow. That may sound overwhelming to some of my readers, but since I had done it for so long, it was commonplace to me! Though I have to admit that doing laundry in such a situation was a full day's exercise. Because there were only 6 machines that served many units. So depending on when you wanted to do laundry competition was fierce. Therefore in all reality, I have nothing to complain about.
One of the highlights of my day is I signed up for an advanced grief counseling certification training program. This is about a 20 hour program, that I can take on my own time line, but something that I think will be valuable for me personally as well as in my work with Mattie Miracle. Typically I don't like being glued to a computer, but it does open up opportunities to learn, and gives you control as to when you can and want to tune in!
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