Beautiful Feet: April 2, 2015

Day of Sleep Over. The sleep over for the teen girls begins at four, so we spent the day cooking and cleaning. Dwaine helped so much getting everything ready. This would not have been possible without his help. We set out two long tables in the garage that is alongside our eating room. It works great for an extra room when the car is outside. One small table was set up for craft materials and we made all the beds and checked there were enough blankets and pillows. Arrival time is 4 and at this point we are uncertain on numbers. Dwaine drove over to Katherine’s in the afternoon to tell her that Rachel could pick her up, but it looked like she would have to babysit her brother for the night. Both her parents work. We finished up most everything by early afternoon, so I sleep for about an hour. Right at 4, a group arrived. Quickly afterwards, Bessy and her mother-in-law, Isabella arrived. Bessy also had her young daughter Valentina with her. Isabella planned to only come for a few minutes, but she decided to stay. I cannot begin to say how thankful I was that she stayed. She helped me so much all night long. After that Rachel and a few more arrived. She had her daughter, Brisa and her niece, Heidi. I think in the end we had about 15 total. One of the girls had just been baptized today! Everyone was terrific. We ate all night. Dinner was fried chicken and French fries. Dwaine headed out to spend the night at Hector’s after dinner. There was a torrential downpour and he said it rained so hard that people were pulling off the road. Even though we had a big dinner, it wasn’t long and we ate homemade pizza, of which Isabella cooked. Then we had chips and dip and finally breakfast with pancakes. In between we had lots of cookies. Wow, so much eating! Rachel and I both did devotionals at different times during the night. There were games and I had prepared about 6 or 7 different crafts with our ‘friendship’ theme. I think everyone stayed busy all night. We skyped Caleb and baby Charlotte early and then Clifton got to talk to all the girls too about 10:30. About 4 a.m. people started settling down and going to bed. I finally dozed in a chair by the front door from 5 to 5:30. Isabella had to leave at 6 to go cook bread to sell and I started on breakfast. Dwaine and Hector arrived about 7:30 or 8 because it was becoming difficult to travel. Each town has parades and festivities all day due to Good Friday, so they blocked roads. Everyone headed out about 8:30. The greatest compliment, was their final question, “Can we do this again?” What a blessing.