Happy Things

Drawn by compassion for those who have been faithfully checking my blog to find NO UPDATES, I'm back. Happy things live on! I have a few from my last days at ITC and a few from home . . .

• "We should have a door decorating contest. Well, I'm not even going to participate." --Autumn
• Faith praying to the rhythm of her alarm
  
• "Jesus wasn't in the facility at the moment." --Airon, solemnly explaining to me why Myah got in a fight at school
• "I didn't slam on the brakes--I calmly put them on quickly." --Clayton R., via Mary R.
• Kendra, feigning horror at Mrs. Goodwin's viciousness at croquet: "And you're a pastor's wife!"
  Mrs. Goodwin: "Not while I'm playing!"
• Jessica telling Mrs. Goodwin that her vase was pretty and Mrs. Goodwin thinking she said "face"
• Mrs. Goodwin telling Jessica that she was glad that she (Mrs. Goodwin) was playing with a red croquet ball and not black, like Jessica. Kendra, trying to figure out why: "You mean red, like the devil?"
• Katie A. reading her Starbucks cup "illiterate substance farmers" instead of "illiterate subsistence farmers" (and I thought that Starbucks was coming clean about their crops!)
• Aaron noting that the "P" on the CVS sign was out, leaving it to read "CVS harmacy"
• The sound of heavy equipment by Fairwood, meaning that the Lake Road bridge is being repaired after 1 1/2 years out
• Singing in a choir again and learning two new songs in one practice
• A hammock on my screened-in porch
• "Very aware of the fact." --Dan's answer to Aaron's question, "Are you aware of the fact that if the Red Sox win one more game and the Yankees lose one game that the Yankees will be eliminated and the Red Sox will advance?"
• Rachel discovering that the meeting schedule for the upcoming convention read
  "Worship Neil
  S-------"
• "This is what an answer to prayer looks like!" --Lisa, on a time that God turned aside something she wanted but had asked Him to turn aside if it were not His will
• Dad, in fire safety meeting: "Heidi, you have your own personal fire escape! It's in a box in your closet."
  Heidi: "I saw that, but it was so heavy, I couldn't pick it up."
• Katie S. wearing a tiara most of the day on her birthday
• Starting The Truth Project at church