Notes of the Sleepy--Day 173/Day 4/Day 33/Day 10 (still)

We are having our bi-annual audit at work on Thursday. There used to be a few people in my department besides the quality manager. After a layoff and one member going to one of our nearby facilities, it's just me. The work is not particularly difficult, but there are a lot of t's I need to make sure are crossed and plenty of i's that need dotted. One possibly large t needed to be crossed, so I took some work home with me. It took quite a bit of time and I could only work on it after leaving Awana's, dropping off my neices, dropping off Jiselle, dropping off the kids at home, dropping off Garrett at home, and then finally home again. Even then, there are kids to kiss and prayers to say. Once I was mostly done with the paperwork, I went to my blog and wrote:

Awanas. Audit stuff partially done. My kids are awesome.

I was tired. I knew I wrote something, but I didn't know what. As I said in the previous post, I wrote a few things on my mind and then logged off.

In order of appearance:

1. Awana's was fun as usual. Many of the kids were dressed up for Awana Be night. Brandi was dressed as a movie star, E.J. as a member of STAND ministry, Carson as a policeman, Sloan as a nurse and Gabrielle was a veterinarian. We had many helpers for our verse time, but we ran over for some reason. That's fine. Counsel time is usually fairly short.

Pastor Don and his magic show was entertaining. The first thing he asked of the children was not to tell others how the trick was done. He repeated this several times. What happens after his second trick (he told his audience how to do the first)? Half the boys are up on there feet telling everyone how to do the trick. LOL. What are you going to do? They're second graders.

Game time was fun as well. First we had to untie ourselves out of the human knot we were put into. This was only after one of the girls exclaimed "You're the one who ate that bug!" The repercussions from that have been fairly minimal. It's only been brought up a couple times. Like I said, I did it for the kids:)

They went outside and received some more candy and we went back downstairs where we wound down for a bit before we left.

2. Not much more to say. I was happy to have the work mostly done.

3. My kids ARE awesome. I'm not sure why I mentioned that. It probably had to do with their prayers. As with many others, my biggest religious epiphany concerned the realization I was not the center of the universe and that I was actually at the end of the list. Not to say I was conceited; I was actually at the other end of that emotional spectrum which can have the same effects. My kids' prayers, while mostly filled with thanks, also ask for help for others; sometimes help for particular people. Sometimes they come up with something that you can really tell is from the heart. I don't think they're going to have the same problem I had. Noah didn't move the whole time. He was already in bed and we were probably keeping him up. I leaned over and gave him a couple kisses. Except for some eye movement and a couple of blinks, he still didn't move. Poor guy. He probably had a long day.

Thank you, Jesus.