Wrap Up of the Week

Tonight marks what I hope to be the end of my hectic few weeks. I was responsible for organizing a parents meeting for Awana this week at church. That is code for - I suggested we have a parents meeting so I got the job. But that is ok, maybe God put it on my heart for that reason. It was important to me and I wanted to make it something that would benefit the whole program. I think it was a success. I was in a "if just one person shows up, we are having this meeting!" kind of mood - and 8 parents showed up. The room we met in only had 10 seats, so it felt like a good crowd. Four of those parents volunteered to help out on a weekly basis and I think all of the parents came away feeling like they were more connected to the program in general. Last year there was a huge disconnect between the workers and the parents. It may not have affected things negatively, but it didn't do anything to help out either.

Being a hectic week, I forgot to write the morning show trivia questions (my little radio gig - still a volunteer position as yet, but it justifies my using the Keurig when I'm at the studio) until 9:50 on Tuesday night.  Wednesday morning is trivia morning.  I listened to the station on line while I worked on the questions and a show promo came on saying, "Join us tomorrow morning for trivia!"  and that was enough encouragement to press on ("they're counting on me!")

Then I got a cold, erg.  I guess that happened over the course of the week.  I don't remember being sick on Sunday, but I know I was by Wednesday.  This is the sort of cold that makes me lose my sense of smell and taste.  They say that people who lose their sense of taste permanently also usually lose interest in food.  I can see that.  Texture is not a big selling point for me in most foods.

And Natalie may have had pinkeye.  It was not a clear cut diagnosis, just a "this is not a week for pinkeye" episode.  I explained to the bigs that it was very contagious and that if they got it they couldn't go to enrichment on Friday and they avoided her like the plague!  Annalise must have washed her hands 15 times a day.  If Natalie so much a brushed against her back, she washed her hands!

Also my ground orchid randomly bloomed, as it randomly tends to do.  Love it!

And my lone rosemary plant looks nice (and smells divine).  I grew it from a seed.  Seems to be a very slow growing plant.  I started several seeds and only have one plant to show for it.

I also tried planting some flax seeds I had bought to eat.  I read one place that kind won't grow and another that it might.  One of mine sprouted!

This week's My America class at enrichment was on the Statue of Liberty.  We made the Family Fun Lady Liberty crowns - very easy to make and the kids loved them. 

Liberty Enlightening the Bathroom.   The sunlight is supposed to be the light from her torch :)

Natalie modeling Annalise's eyeball craft from her Wearable Concepts class.  This is the same class where she made the paper brain hat.

Today we went to the library after enrichment.  Caleb was looking at the dvds when suddenly about 20 of them fell off the display!  No, they erupted off the display.  It was pretty dramatic!  Then Natalie tripped and banged her head on the concrete floor in the middle of the library.  She cried so hard (and loud).  But she was ok, bruised forehead.