Sunday, August 23, 2020

His First Real-Paying Job

 Quinn is now officially the organist for the 7:45 am Mass at St. Anne's Catholic church.  This is a paid, weekly gig... enough to give him spending money, but not enough to interfere with school.  PERFECT!  And he's doing a fabulous job.  I'm so proud of him!





Monday, August 3, 2020

Random Act of Kindness

Quinn has been riding his bike to the park nearly every day, and practicing his flips and dives.  There's a big sandy hill at the park in town, and it works well as a diving simulator for him.  Apparently, as he was practicing one day, an elderly lady was watching him.  Flip.  Over.  And over.  And over.  Finally, she came up to him and asked him what he was doing and why.  He told her he was practicing for the upcoming diving season.  She asked him what his goal was, and he told her "to win the U.P. Finals for diving."  She looked him in the eye and said "think bigger."  Wow.  This random stranger told Quinn that, with the determination he was showing this day, there was nothing keeping him from the Olympics.  Then she went back to her car, wrote him this note, and came back and gave it to him with a $20 bill.  The kid was suitably impressed.  Such a wonderful, random act of kindness!!

 

Sunday, August 2, 2020

His First In Person Job Application

 Quinn was all dressed up for church anyway, so he stopped by to deliver his job application to the local ice cream shop.  His mother, hiding discreetly in the car snapping photos of this momentous occasion, would have hired him!!