Painting continues, and the team was able to make a lot of progress under the watchful eyes of their foreman. I am not sure how it started, but I wound up helping the paint team get started. Before long, Julie and Laura were calling me their foreman. This basically meant that I was the guy fetching the paint, refilling the paint cups, and pretending like I knew what was going on. We had several people helping us, and we made great progress in a short amount of time.
Donnie, Marion, Mike, Carrie, and Matt made good progress on the new closet, it is going to be huge. It is very sturdy, I have seen Donnie and Marion standing on top of the second shelf.
Matt and Carrie also repaired one of the doors to the bathrooms.
Lisa was able to do some work, Traci seemed content on just receiving a hug, and with Susan's help they painted the tables that were built yesterday.
Under the watchful eye of Cindy, we were able to install new hardware for the drawers and the closets. In the boys room, several of the boys wanted to help drive the screws, and they did a great job.
Today's random thoughts:
Dana has a habit of putting on strawberry chapstick very quickly. I never noticed it until she told us about it at the orientation meeting. One of the children noticed and did a motion like putting on chapstick, pretty funny.
The boys love taking pictures on Hayden's phone. I think he said there were over 1000.
We got to visit a vendor that comes to the Villa Mamika, her name is Madam Cheap-cheap.
There are armed guards at the grocery and at the gas station, pretty unnerving.
Carrie was holding a boy named Micarrie. Put together a language barrier, and your best Abbott and Costello routine and you get the picture of them figuring out that their names were similar.
When Dana says here name slowly, with her Southern accent, the children put an extra vowel in their pronunciation. Di-Ana?
Dana, Allison, and Lisa all got their hair braided. I tried to get the girls to do my hair, but they said "NO."
and finally ..... we continue to feel your thoughts and prayers. Keep them coming. We appreciate the notes that we have received so far, they do help lift us up.