Habitat

Today was supposed to be an all-day sweat-fest…but the weather was not on our side. I’m part of a group at church called Disciples at Heart. It’s a mentoring program that has given me the awesome opportunity to mentor a very cool high school girl named Laynie. As one of our all group get-togethers, we volunteered to help finish a Dallas Habitat for Humanity home. Unfortunately, it rained. We couldn’t paint like we had planned so we just caulked and spackled and called it a day. Even though the day was cut short, we had a great time and it was definitely a team building exercise.

I wasn’t really very familiar with Habitat – I knew of it – but not much more than that. I always thought the houses were built by volunteers and just given away. But in fact, the houses are sold (not for a profit) to the homeowner. AND the homeowner becomes a partner in the building project and invests 400 hours of their own time – with the help of family & friends. The homeowner to be, Camesha, was there the entire time, working right along side us. She was so excited and proud of her home. It was just so cool to be a small part of such a big thing for someone.

I came home and put the pictures from today in another one of Amanda Lee’s Photo Stacker Templates – this one has 30 pictures on it! I just love them because they really tell the story. One of Summer’s papers is used as the background – from the Tea Party for Two Paper Pack.

Tonight we have a babysitter for the kids. We’re going to a good-bye diner for a friend of ours, Albin, who is moving to Atlanta. I hate goodbyes!