El planear vagar otra vez

I'm planning to roam again - this time to Mexico, Tiajauna. In july with Fellowship's youth group. This alone is TOTALLY the Holy Spirit wrangling, as I never come up with "Mexico" when it comes to "where can I go to help Jesus do stuff?" and I've not done anything with our youth group - odd as that's ALL I do is "youth things." So it's easy to see how this is not just one of those ME things - I have way too many of those anyway!!!

Sidebar - as I type this -Kaa is just OH SO adorable - he's curled up in his den (which for visual purposes, is a large plastic plant base, flipped upside down with a sqare cut out of the side to make a mouth of the cave)...anyway- his little head is propped up on his body and it's just peeking out of the den - too cute. Yes, for all you non-snake people, I'm odd - accept it.

So this trip truly is going to be exciting - I get more and more excited every time we meet. We'll be at the dump site -mostly with children, doing "vacation Bible school" type of activities - with games, crafts, drama, music and a Bible story. We learned, as a group, to sing, "I've got the joy, joy, joy , joy...down in my heart (donde?) this week - and I truly think, if I would take every kid song I know, every Broadway musical and every Disney record I grew up with, and got the spanish translation, I would learn Spanish pretty quickly!

But, I won't ponder tooo much into the future - in the TODAY - there's still school, although the seniors are more or less gone, just in and out to turn things in - and of course I'll be crashing the senior breakfast on Thursday to see their slide show (and to lift a biscuit or two).

YL - the TRASH DASH is this Saturday (as is every other event known to mankind) - it'll be a proverbial HOOT. To raise money for camp - the kids (ugh! and I HATE using that word) collect sponsors per bag, who will donate so much money (probably not more than 1 or 2$) per bag. Then we'll all go out to some nasty location and pick up trash. They can't claim more than 10 bags, even if they get more - but hey - 20 sponsors at 2$ a bag - that's all the 400 they need for camp.

Then of course at the end of next week (once I figure out if I really do have inservice or not) is WINDY GAP. And this is where I say "thank you Jesus" indeed - it's been since Nov of 2003 since I got to go to any kind of camp and I'm grateful and NOT taking it for granted.

Wow - it's amazing how much I can come up with when I'm not swamped wtih play practice or Lowe's runs - after every show, I think about petitioning them to change the name to "Erin's" or at least let me be the spokeschick - kind of like what Ty Pennington does for Sears.

One last thing, then I'll go check on whatever it is I'm cooking for supper (goodness, but I miss Stacie, who cooked!) - I learned how to CHANGE MY OIL today - Nathan is QUITE multi-talented, and like me, has a father who raised him around that kind of thing - unlike me - he paid attention!!