Cleaning Day

This morning I woke up to doing devotions and coffee.  I headed to the little girls house and saw that they were eating chocolate granola.  Kimberly got quite excited by chocolate granola last week, and I'm guessing that they only have that on the weekends (?) because on all of the weekdays so far, oatmeal has been served.  Although I really do like granola, I'm not the biggest fan of the chocolate flavor.  We helped with dishes once again and then headed back to the volunteer house.

Saturdays are CLEANING DAY.  Anyone who knows me well knows that I absolutely detest cleaning toilets, so I really did not want to be on "bathroom duty".  When we got back to the house, Kimberly and I immediately began cleaning the kitchen, dining and living room areas (it's really one big common area).  I washed the dishes and cleaned the cupboards while Kimberly wiped down all of the furniture, cleaned the stove and swept the floor.  Then I followed her up by mopping the floor.  We worked well together, quickly and efficiently!  When the work was done, we felt pretty good about the fresh-smelling areas!

I spent the next chunk of time googling crafts to do with the special needs children this week at the craft house.  I do have a website bookmarked on this computer, but if anyone has ideas...feel free to post them to my facebook page.  I'm just at a loss when I walk into that craft house...I am not an "artsy" type of person.

After doing my research, I headed to the small boys area, where the Maryland group was putting on the carnival for that age group.  I got to translate for a man who was teaching the boys how to make a one-armed rescue knot.  Yes, the knot had a special name...but I just couldn't remember what it was called.  Andres was busy with helping translate too.

It rained and rained and rained during the boys carnival.  I guess the rains are coming back (perhaps Bob will be grateful for that), but when the sun it out, it is still very strong.  When there was a slight break in the rain, I headed back to the volunteer house to pick up Kimberly so that we could head to the little girls house for lunch.  By the time we got there, they were already done eating (guess they eat lunch early on Saturdays); so we helped with dishes and headed back to the volunteer house where we cooled down for just a little bit before I went back to the little girls house to help with the carnival and to visit with Doris.

My clinic hours were from 4:30-6pm this evening.  I took Joche outside to watch the events going on, and then got him settled in for the night lady that comes to monitor him.  I headed up to the little girls house to say good night to them and found Kimberly going through the little girl's head that she had been cleaning the night before.  She has a talent and a patience for that that I really admire.

When we got home, Kimberly mentioned that the Maryland group had left us some hotdogs from the carnival.  When the female volunteers heard this, they all dug in!  Not often that you get hotdogs around here!!!