One-of-a-kind Minutes

Yes, I know, the word unique means one of a kind. But I liked the sound of one of a kind better. Our last week had several one of a kind minutes.


We waited for the men to come from the hardware store with the window to install it. Allona, Vova, Seth and I were doing school. When would they come? "They're here!" Seth announced when a truck and a moped came to our gates. Instant excitement filled the air. How would the workers remove the old window? How long would it take? The two men had a jack hammer that made short work of the plaster encasing the old window and window sill. They leveled the new window, set it in and anchored it to the stone walls. Then they had a special gun, not the manual pump type, to squirt foam insulation into the cracks around the frame. They left as quickly as they came. We were left with one less item on our to-do list and a new window.

We arrived in Mikhailivka where we have children's services. A week before we had just given them our kitten that we had nicknamed "special" in Russian. Was the kitten alive? They had two dogs, geese and cows. The kitten was pretty small in comparison. The kitten greeted us with a "meow." It wasn't long before we saw that she was quite comfortable in her new home. She had even found a substitute mother!! just the size of her own.

For the games this week, Seth chose Bible charades. One group chose to do the story of Zaccheus. But they had no tree. What should they do? They chose the tallest person in the group and covered his hands with camouflage cloth. Seth was their tree. Zaccheus climbed up and down and the children guessed the story. Then someone told me that Seth was the tree . . . then it made sense.

On the way home, I noticed the bright yellow field flowers. We stopped for a minute. Vova and Dave both picked some. Later I picked a few more closer to home. We arrived at the house. I put a bowl of water inside a basket and stuck the best of the flowers inside. They didn't last even a day. But I enjoyed the bright splash of color while they lasted. It was my "fall decoration" for one day.

A new girl came with a friend last week. She said she would be back. But it's same all over the world, you never know how much a person really means it when they say those kind of words. She did come back. She was at the morning service and Kids' Klub. Katrina snapped this picture during craft time. Here is Ina.

It's not every day that someone comes back. It's not everyday I stop to pick a bouquet of flowers. It's not everyday that Seth becomes a tree. Hope you enjoyed these, oh well, I'll say "unique" this time, minutes.