Tuesday Night

For those of you who have been keeping up with our posts the past few days, I haven't been able to post pictures to the blog (the internet isn't strong enough), but I just uploaded a batch to Facebook that went through. If you are checking this and you have Facebook, but can't see the album, feel free to add me so you can see all of our photos. This link might work: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.3398514530283.2134267.1492350054&type=1&l=7fd4598960

We had an early ending to our night since it had been such a long day. Having the girls home from school was so great for bonding, but exhausting for all. After my update earlier, I headed back over where the team/girls were watching Tangled. After our movie, we ate lunch and had siesta. It was so neat to look around the room and see each of the kids cuddled up to our leaders. Such a great reminder of the love that we are giving to each and every one of them. They just want to be held and cuddled with, even the older girls.

When siesta was over, we went back to playing games and making bracelets. We did a few group games like four corners (which I also had to learn in addition to spoons) and musical chairs (I had heard of that one before).

Devotion tonight was led by Paige and we talked more about how to praise God with our eyes and ears. One of the quotes from the book that Catherine translated was "Where you look, where your eyes are is where you're focused. Your focus determines where your praise goes." We then encouraged the girls to surround themselves with great things because it affects who they are and helps them reflect more of God.

We ordered Dominos for dinner and ate several desserts (in addition to the oreo balls Catherine, Torey, Paige and I were sneaking all day). The girls went upstairs to get ready for bed after wards and must have been so exhausted, they didn't come down to say goodnight. You can tell we are bonding with them because we went up to check on them and were so disappointed when they were already asleep. It's only our third full day and these girls have already become our family. We have inside jokes and nicknames for each girl (Team Trouble, I'm telling you...they run this show) and secret handshakes with some of them (we taught them how to do hand-hugs).

A few of us talked with Glena once the girls had gone to bed and got the background on how some had got to the home. I won't share the intimate details, but it put a whole new perspective on why we are here, why it's so important for us to hold these girls every chance we get. Every meal shared, game played, and hand held is one that has a lasting affect.

I hope these updates are helpful for those of you with friends and family on our team. Each person is having a unique experience that I can't fully capture, but hopefully I can share a little of our journey with you through this blog. But if I have any chance of getting up at 5:45 to work out on the roof in the morning, I'm going to need to have gone to bed an hour ago.