Relief at the Toddler House

Today there was no pataste to cut, however there was a ton of yucca.  Yucca is a root and is pretty hard to cut as you have to cut the bark off of it before you chop it up.  Laurie generally took care of the yucca last week while I cut the pataste, however since there was no pataste and extra yucca this morning, we both cut the yucca after I had peeled the carrots.  After serving breakfast and heading to the pavilion, we were excited to see members from both the Ohio and California teams come to help out with the toddlers.  It's nice when the kids can get more one-on-one attention.  The Ohio team also brought in hot dogs, chips and soda for the toddlers to eat during lunch.

Morning vegetables to chop: Yucca, Green Beans, Carrots, Broccoli

Yucca

During our 2 hour break Laurie took her daughters, Rachel and Rebekah, into town to go grocery shopping and for her daughters to check out Guaimaca since she didn't take them last week (and since she now needed some oil to replace what Mirna had used).  When they got back we headed back to the Toddler House and Lorraine (a good friend of mine from California) was there to help out with the toddlers and to chat with the teen moms.

At the end of the day, Carla (the staff member who is in charge of the Toddler House) let the girls know that since Glinda's phone was still missing and they had 2 days already to produce the phone, Papi had decided that the girls would not go to school tomorrow and they would have some difficult chores around the house and yard until someone admitted to taking the phone and produced the phone.  Glinda is sure that her phone went missing while she was caring for the kids here at Emmanuel on Saturday.  Some girls walked away crying because they truly like going to school.