A day in the life......of me!

Today has been a good day. It started out with departmental devotions. The topic was being encouraging to each other, and how if we each try to draw closer to Jesus, He will draw us even closer to each other. Mae was leading the devos, and she did a cool little trick of folding a thin piece of paper over a couple times, put two paper clips on it, and then pulled the ends of the paper away from each other, and the paper clips got hooked on one another.

After that, she gave everyone a piece of paper and had us write our names on it. Then we all put them in the middle of the floor, and everyone grabbed someone else's and wrote something encouraging on it. At the end of the exercise we all got our own papers back. It was so nice and encouraging to read the things everyone had written.

One of the guys who was there had just arrived yesterday, so didn't really know what to write about him, 'cus didn't know him. So I must admit, I just wrote a generic encouraging sentence. But someone else had written "I don't know you, but you dress nicely". I thought that was a very honest, nice thing to write, and it was also kinda funny.

Got off work early (3:15) to go help bake cookies for Thursday night. Two of the teachers had organized for baking of cookies so the kids could decorate them with icing after community meeting Thursday. There are two kinds: sugar cookies and gingerbread cookies.

They made the dough Tuesday, but we ended up having to make some more because there wasn't enough. We totally messed up the gingerbread recipe, but salvaged it, and it was actually better than the original dough that hadn't been messed up. So Angie and I were quite proud of our efforts.