Beautiful Feet: February 6, 2016

Hit the floor running. Ladies’ events are demanding for everyone and there were a lot of last minute details to finish. After staying up to 2:30 Friday, I got up at 5:30 to work on cooking. I had cooked 50 flower cookies on Friday since our theme was Flowers for Me and I still needed to frost them. I had experimented with making colored sugars. It is always amazing what you can make when items are available. I had never thought of making my own sugars. Then we still had on the agenda cheese dip and flower open chicken salad sandwiches. Those would come together at lunchtime. We still had coffee and bread planned for the morning. I was concerned about how long it might take. We arrived at the church building about 8:40 and very soon, a man arrived who was selling furniture. It is not uncommon to see a walking salesperson with a kitchen stand or a plastic cabinet for sale. However, within about 10 minutes, 11 men arrived with their furniture items. They were out for the day, traveling from San Salvador to sell the furniture items. Along with them some children also arrived to get some coffee and bread for their families. By 9, we were empty. We did have a few regular ladies to come as well. We were later told that the workers from San Salvador probably had not had anything to eat before leaving out to get all the furniture, so it was a great morning to serve. When we got home, Dwaine helped put the sandwiches together and we got to the building about 1:30. Linda did a fantastic job decorating and people starting arriving about 3. In the end, we had about 16 or 17 ladies and about 8 children. The men volunteered to keep the children and they watched a film. The ladies had an introduction game and lots of eats. I did a power point lesson on Lydia and Linda did an amazing job on making flowers. We had cut lots of paper flowers and everyone had a blast. In the end we did a drawing for a bouquet of flowers that all the ladies made. It was a nice afternoon and there was still more to come. Afterwards, Dwaine and I went by to take Socorro out for pupusas for dinner. There is a restaurant across from her hostel, so we could see if she had any customers to arrive during dinner. Two American who were staying at her place also arrived for dinner and Dwaine visited with them for several minutes. They were from Texas and Louisiana. Afterwards, Dwaine stayed up reading, but I went to bed about 8:30. I needed that!

Morning coffee and bread!