Smokin!

We are on fire!  I had three great volunteers come and help me paint the Children's Welcome Center last night.

Jaime Miller, Cherie Castle, and Mark Perry!

When you see them please thank them and tell them how much you love the work they did.  They spent three hours at church and we got the entire CWC walls painted--three coats, and the desks got their first coat of stain, including a quick run in with the sandpaper!

We had a great time together.  We ate junk food, listen to music and talked about colons, prostates, anesthesia, our mother's, husbands who avoid house work by mowing the lawn (sometimes twice in one day--of course not Mark!) among many other things!  If this sounds like your kind of volunteer opportunity--come help us next time!  We'd love to see you!

The next project is the Nursery Welcome Center.  Annette is getting a shiny new desk and we are going to give her a pretty back drop for it!  I haven't set the date for that, but I'm thinking May 28th.  I don't let the grass grow under my feet.

I don't know if you can tell, but decorating is one of my passions!  This stuff gets me pumped up and excited.  I hope it will do the same for our parents and children.  Here is what I equate a spiffy room/area to. . . 

In third grade all the kids wanted Mrs. Wilson for fourth grade.  (Some of you are saying, "Oh Jeeze--The Mrs. Wilson story again!  Bare with me!)  Was it because she had the ability to make our test scores better?  Nope.  Was it because she didn't give home work?  Definitely not it.  It was because of two reasons:  ONE:  She was pretty!  TWO:  She had a tee-pee in her room.  So, I ask myself, "Are children only interested in what lies on the inside like we teach them?"  Sadly, no.  What matters to a child is their first impression of you.  I want every child's first impression of ZPC to be one of excitement, pride, and love.  Then once we get them hooked we'll slam them with homework, just like Mrs. Wilson!!!