Christina and I have been working on deep cleaning the house while the big girls are gone. Christina has been a cheerful worker. We cleaned my room, two bathrooms and the living room and the entry way closet so far. I'm in the throw-away mood. She's in the give-away mood. All the little trinkets she finds go into a bag for her to hand out to the African children when we get there. She has balls, mini-dolls, jacks, marbles, key chains, mini-plastic animals, etc... She is also collection pennies. I ran out of leather conditioner for the couch before I finished the livingroom but next we are on to the dining room and kitchen and pantry. The office and the laundry room will be the next big project.
Christina had her first swimming lesson at 11 yesterday. She is the only girl in the class, a head taller and faster than everybody else. But she lacks technique. So she is concentrating her efforts on a couple of strokes. Dakota and McKenzie invited her to go swimming with them at their grandparent's pool at 2:30. Dakota is an excellent swimmer and participates in swim team and she spent time helping Christina with her strokes. The swimming kind of broke up the monotony of the cleaning!
We are working on a song for a friend who is dying of cancer. His sister wrote the song and he loves it. We want to have it learned by Sabbath as he may not live much longer. The person I asked to sing it was struggling to learn it (as was I) so we went down to the church last night and recorded it on a cd. Me on the piano, Christina playing the melody line on the flute. The singer can just listen and learn. There is an obbligato for the flute to figure out yet. We have two friends with just weeks to live.
We went and picked out some paint colors for Vanessa's room. Red for one wall and a light taupe for the rest. I hope we have time to do it this week.
I have been gathering information for the church board so they can decide if we do the Amazing Adventures program for kids. I am really excited about it! The timing is a little tough considering it is so close to our Africa trip, but the kids are gonna LOVE it! And not only that, there is a parenting seminar to go along with it and that is such a need! I don't care if I have to do all the work myself, which of course, I won't have to since we have such a great group of people to work with, this is going to be fantastic.
Amazing Adventures program for kids
Posted by mulberrylane on Thursday, July 24, 2008 at 08:39 - Link
Angela, a gal at our church is going to do this with the older kids... we have planned to have a lay person evangelistic series at the same time, so it worked out wonderfully to do the Amazing adventures as well. This is the series they want me to do the little kids programming... those who aren't old enough for this program... basically babysitting with a purpose. I just keep praying that something will come up. I hope the best for you! I've heard it will be a very nice program.
