Moving Along

Last week James and I decided on a plan in terms of what we wanted to accomplish for the fundraiser over Spring Break. He is off a total of three days this week, which leaves us a good chunk of time for planning and doing.

Today turned out to be quite a productive day. We headed out to Bourbon Street around noon to meet with the Fundraiser Coordinator. She answered a few questions for us and gave us a tour of the room along with suggestions of how to maximize space in the room.  Next stop was Archer Bank in Mount Greenwood to setup an account for the fundraiser. This took awhile, but I was impressed with the ease of the registration process and what will be provided for us the day of the fundraiser. Once home, James registered "A Day for Adele" as a domain name with Go Daddy.  We need to register the fundraiser account with paypal ASAP so we can include a paypal button on our webpage for pre-sale tickets. Tomorrow and for the rest of the week, James and I will be adding to the web page and will create a facebook page. Our goal is to get both launched by Friday.

Adele is officially crawling as her main mode of transportation. In true Adele form, she rounds out hitting this developmental milestone right at the edge of when it's considered delayed; she will be 11 months old on Wednesday. We also noticed that she "dances". Jade was giving us one of her many performances, and Adele decided to bop her head and body to the music. CUTE!

For the last two weeks, I have spent the majority of car rides listening to "Far From the Tree". This is because the book is 1000 pages so as you can imagine, the audible version goes on forever as well.  I am completely captivated by this book and cannot WAIT to discuss it at book club in August.  I am continually impressed with the author's ability to weave family interviews, history, statistics and research in each area of disability. I am walking away with a three-dimensional view of people with disabilities that I have not worked with, and a broader perspective of those I am familiar with.