Happy Things

Yes, I really ought to write something besides happy things. But life is crazy, and somehow they sum up life's highlights! The leaders and LITs have poured a lot of energy into teaching a children's program (accompanying the Basic, Advanced, Anger Resolution, and Spanish Basic Seminars) last week, and teaching 5-Day Clubs in our neighborhood this week. So some of the incidents come from those things. Others just come from everyday life. Thank Nina, Tiffany, Matt, and me for these entries . . .

• LIT takes second donut 30 minutes before brunch. When pointed out that she has to eat brunch: "I'll make it work."
• Mr. Murray's remedy for coughs: planting flowers! (Actually, he was recruiting so that he could get out of planting flowers.)
• Quotes from sociology textbook [these are from Tiffany; I study many subjects, but I can't take credit for this]:
  "A bureaucracy is a rationally designed organizational model, the goal of which is to perform complex tasks as efficiently as possible."
  "Parkinson's Law states that in any bureaucratic organization, work expands to fill the time available for its completion."
  "The Peter Principle states that in any hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence."
• Watching the LITs interact with the Children's [program] kids
• Speaking truth to someone that's struggling
• Seeing God work in a VERY unlikely situation
• Laughter in the quiet room
• Watching Alison and Peter fight over a chair
• My team being asked if we were Mrs. Rothenhauser's children
• Jessica:
  "I'm special with frogs,
  I'm special without frogs,
  I'm special with dead frogs."
• Becoming a "mom" again! (Matt)
• Gina defining "savage" as "unmannerly," but it sounding like "unmanly"
• Romans 6:23 described with rotten and good bananas
• Coming up with long animal names to generate maximum points during a review game
• Cherries on the food line!
• Mrs. Paine supplying me with alternative food
• Chad, to Jon and Tim: "I need you guys."
  Jon: "What for?"
  Chad: "Well, not really for much."
• Joel crowing, "She's OLD!" about me after Tabitha started her Bible story with, "Philip was looking for someone; he was looking for Kendra, but he couldn't find her."
• Mrs. Rodgers realizing, while sitting in cosmetology with her green face mask on, that the picture above her read, "Thou, God, seest me."
• Hanging out with Kirstin--and both bringing slurpies!
• Singing "the song that never ends" throughout an entire dishpit