Happy Things

From me again . . .

• Stephanie asking the kids in 5-Day Club if they knew who Satan was and one of them guessing, "You?"
• The little Krafts' cardboard playhouses in the back of the dining room
• Mr. Ritchie chuckling over Pastor Goodwin announcing that they would have to put the church's rotting fire escape "on the back burner"
• Mrs. Gomez organizing a volleyball game with the parents of the 5-Day Club children
• Josiah W. and Weston K. showing off for me--Josiah his bike tricks and Weston his scooter tricks
• Weston, nonchalantly, after I watched him jump off the curb on his scooter and I exclaimed, "Whoa. That's amazing!": "I knew you would say that."
• Realizing that a leader had left her name off her Learning Experience, then glancing over at her subject line: "It's not about me."
• Mrs. Gomez throwing a pizza and ice cream party for the 5-Day Club workers
• Hearing that two unnamed staff guys are memorizing Proverbs 31 together
• Hearing that one of those staff guys asked his mother about Proverbs 31: "So this means that my wife will work for me?"
• Rachel W. picking a new name for her mounted piranha after her little brother told two people that she had brought "marijuana" back from Brazil with her
• Thomas tossing a raw egg at me, expecting me to catch it. Me being so horrified that he did it that I watched wide-eyed as it splatted on the kitchen floor.
• [Reported to me second or third-hand] Susanna to Mario: "Que pasa?"
  Mario to Susanna: "What do you mean, 'What's going on?'"
• "I'm glad I don't have two legs!" --Ernesto, after a three-legged race. (You figure out what he meant!)
• Mrs. Williams loudly guessing, "Man muffin!" when Tamarah was giving Catchphrase clues for "The Muffin Man"