Day 48

It's the Saturday before Easter and I've had a pretty full day. My sweet dog Angel woke me up at 4:00 with tummy troubles and needed to be let out....and in ....... and out..... and in...... etc. She's better now, but when she chews and eats plastic, this is what happens to her. I slept from 5:00 to 7:00 while she was outside so I was not awake the whole time. 
At 8:00, Jason and I went to Home Depot and bought this little beauty: 

It's still too wet to do much good out there yet, but it will be nice when the weather dries up some.  After Home Depot, Jason and I had a quick breakfast at Bob Evans. That was nice! 
We had one of Wade's co-workers come over to look at some plumbing problems. They aren't solved yet, but we think we have some temporary fixes that will work for a week or so until Rodney can give us a hand. 
This afternoon at the church, we held the Easter Egg Gathering which is run by the Children's Pastor, Patty Rose. She is a great person and I enjoy being her friend. She's young, energetic, and full of fun, un-ordinary ideas. Before the actual egg gathering, there were "stations" so the children would have somewhat of a learning experience. I was asked to direct the "Sweet Celebration" Station and given a paper with directions. Using a few ordinary food items, we would re-create the scene where Jesus rode a donkey into the city of Jerusalem. 

I made 120 Jesus cookies from sugar cookie dough. I found a small gingerbread boy cookie cutter and baked on Wednesday and Friday. 

I put together donkey kits of 3 marshmallows, 6 pretzel sticks, and one fruit roll-up.

Here are 120 donkey kits, ready to go. They were finished on Thursday. I also made some practice donkeys:

This one didn't want to stand up for very long. 
I had a helper today too. Her name was Bea Jay and she is Pastor Patty's aunt. And she was so much fun to be around. She is just as wild and crazy and wacky as Pastor Patty. I liked her a lot and she kept us all entertained. Here is one of her samples of a donkey:

She included eyes, a belly button?, a blanket and a tail. She was wonderful with the kids. We saw three groups of children in a period of 30 minutes. They had a good time - we had a good time. At the end of the sessions, Bea Jay came up to me and said she had a present for me but she waited until the kids were gone so that they wouldn't copy her funny idea:

So see - it's not only little boys that have bathroom humor!! 
The egg gathering was a great success - we have the wonderful opportunity to see so many of the neighborhood children. Events like this (or the Living Christmas Tree) just make them feel that much more comfortable with the church and they will be more likely to step through the doors again for a Sunday School class or a church service. 

I did have leftover donkey kits and some of those will be shipped to Iraq for Wade and his new friends to assemble too! 
A busy, eventful day and now I'm relaxing with the movie, "The Ten Commandments" although it ends at 11:44. I'm recording it to watch the rest at a later time. 
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Wade is fine. He wrote me a few times this morning. He got quite a few responses to his last update from friends and coworkers and has been enjoying reading messages and writing back. He also "copies" me on his responses, so that I can read what is going on with people that I know too.