As Promised

One week ago, I promised the PWCL staff and board that once I had submitted a particularly important and hard deadlined grant proposal, I would share cute holiday pictures of my daughter.

Well, the proposal is submitted! Whew.

So here's my girl. She'll be three on the 20th, was born three months after I started working for PWCL (hiring a woman at 6 months pregnant? yay feminists!). She came to work at 2 months old and spent a lot of time sleeping on the laps and shoulders of various crisis line specialists.

So, here are some pictures from our holiday trip to Alaska, my home state. When we got there, she discovered the joy of eating snow:

This was Christmas Eve i.e. pure Gluttony. Notice, my kid is wearing a snow white dress, playing a video game, watching a DVD and eating a christmas cookie*mama shakes head*:

And here is Christmas morning:

Happy belated holidays!

Nice Note from a Funder

Wen received a small crisis line grant today from one of my favorite funders - the Anne and Eli Shapira Charitable Foundation. They are my favorite (as is the case a lot of the time) because the Grant Administrator really loves PWCL and works hard to make sure that we get funding.

Here's what he wrote back to me:

Dear Linda,

Congratulations again and thank you for sending in the Grant Agreement so quickly. I have enclosed the grant award check. We are proud supporters of your efforts to deal with domestic violence through the Crisis Line Program for the last 35 years. Here's to another 35 years. It is a pleasure to be among your current supporters.


I just like that its kind of informal and conversational. Makes these foundations seem like real people, you know?