Happy New Year!!

Excited to get a good start on the year. I arrived Saturday and spent the afternoon and all day Sunday at the center. Weekends and evenings are the most important time to be there because it is when there is a skeletal staff of government employees and minimal activities for the children. We spent yesterday afternoon in the sunny part of the yard and listened to some music. The older girls are insistent on fairly current and popular dance type music. A couple of the boys really enjoy the music also.

Still lots of folks on vacation. Many people save their vacation days so they can have lots of time off during the holidays. Others take their time in January and that presents a different set of challenges.

My first Facebook post indicated that all wal well with Wendy's thumb. I had been told by the non-medical types that it was healing well and that is true. What I failed to understand is that they had to cut off the top part because the skin graft did not survive. Yeach... Well at least I give the government hospital credit for trying. It was almost an inevitability that she would lose part of it.

Two commitments for the coming year: 1) find a way to give the disruptive adolescent males more activities to calm them down and 2) create more activity for the quiet well behaved kids who are nearly neglected because they aren't constantly acting out.

God Bless!!