Good things come in threes

We started off at Silver City with several smiling helpers and….three kids. Half-joking, one of the helpers asked if we were going to go knocking on doors. That inspired our 8 year old- “I can go ask…” and listed off all his friends. I volunteered to go too, since he decided his 5 year old sister wasn’t old enough to go alone with him. :-P How wonderful to hear an 8 year old holler across the street to his friend on a bike- “Hey! Wanna go to church?”

We got no takers that day, but by Wednesday we were up to 8 kids. And that's why it’s important to knock on doors. 

We had a good week. On the last day, I was worried again about turnout, because it was pouring down rain. It was a heart-warming sight to see two small raincoats come in the door, followed by a few brave others. We dried off, ate breakfast, and had a wonderful day. 

Would the real Rivet please stand up?

I was amazed by their creativity. The craft the last day is decorating a bag to carry the other crafts home. Some of them requested a second bag so they could make a puppet. So, we had Rivet the plush puppet meet many Rivet the paper puppets. 

As always, it is the little things that are important. Little moments like:

• the kindness of a 12 year old girl reassuring a boy who had "messed up" his craft
• the 5 year old girl giving a dandelion to one of our helpers
• sidewalk chalk art projects
• the helpers cheering for Esther all week long like we did in our interactive story the first day
• a boy absolutely beaming as he was given the job of PowerPoint slide mover- and did it well.