Some angels don’t wear wings
Date and Location- Massachusetts - Weekends May 22-23, May 29-31, and June 4-6
Lawrence and I had a lot of trouble picking just one name for this post. There were so many good ones. “Many hands make light work” “It takes a village”, “We get by with a LOT of help from our friends”, or “Midwifes to Joy”
Basically, we could not have had the house ready for the kids without our own dream extreme make over weekend warriors helping us during these last couple of weeks. One couple even got babysitting for their own kids to help us get ready for our Polish trio of children.
Their help was heaven sent and they are our own angels on earth. We literally don’t know what we would have done with out these folks’ help:
Matt and Sharon
Elizabeth
Robin, Ron, and Justin
Karen and Gary
Mike
Susan
Joyce
Marci
Julie B. (repeatedly)
Christine H.
Lisa “Pierogi” G
Missy
Esther
Jeff
Among other things, these folks swept, vacuumed, cleaned, cooked for the troops, moved stuff from one room to the next, went shopping for key items, moved beds, built beds, made beds, sorted donated clothing, schlepped donated clothing to St Vinny De Paul, stuffed excess but still nice clothing into duffle bags for the “Good Sisters”, organized toys, hung shelves, moved around phone/cable wires, schlepped Ross to soccer, and allowed us to keep a little sanity in our lives.
On one evening there were nine people working inside the house at one time. On another night there were seven. Lawrence says that it was like the old Marx Brothers movie where they are on a cruise ship and more and more people keep coming into the stateroom. It was funny. People made great efforts to get things as perfect as possible. They worked very hard. Yet, we were often struck by how people would thank us for letting them help. Our new children have no idea of the small army that is eager for their arrival.
We also received generous gift certificates from:
Wayne
Marci
Elizabeth
Julie B.
Linda A.
Colette
Gail H.
These certificates helped purchase the shelves that were hung, lamps, hangers for all that donated clothing, and new bed linens for the children.
Sunday evening we head back to Poland to pick up the kids. This time, our son Ross and Joyce are going with us. We are very excited to be going back to get the children and having the whole family together under one roof.
Lawrence and I had a lot of trouble picking just one name for this post. There were so many good ones. “Many hands make light work” “It takes a village”, “We get by with a LOT of help from our friends”, or “Midwifes to Joy”
Basically, we could not have had the house ready for the kids without our own dream extreme make over weekend warriors helping us during these last couple of weeks. One couple even got babysitting for their own kids to help us get ready for our Polish trio of children.
Their help was heaven sent and they are our own angels on earth. We literally don’t know what we would have done with out these folks’ help:
Matt and Sharon
Elizabeth
Robin, Ron, and Justin
Karen and Gary
Mike
Susan
Joyce
Marci
Julie B. (repeatedly)
Christine H.
Lisa “Pierogi” G
Missy
Esther
Jeff
Among other things, these folks swept, vacuumed, cleaned, cooked for the troops, moved stuff from one room to the next, went shopping for key items, moved beds, built beds, made beds, sorted donated clothing, schlepped donated clothing to St Vinny De Paul, stuffed excess but still nice clothing into duffle bags for the “Good Sisters”, organized toys, hung shelves, moved around phone/cable wires, schlepped Ross to soccer, and allowed us to keep a little sanity in our lives.
On one evening there were nine people working inside the house at one time. On another night there were seven. Lawrence says that it was like the old Marx Brothers movie where they are on a cruise ship and more and more people keep coming into the stateroom. It was funny. People made great efforts to get things as perfect as possible. They worked very hard. Yet, we were often struck by how people would thank us for letting them help. Our new children have no idea of the small army that is eager for their arrival.
We also received generous gift certificates from:
Wayne
Marci
Elizabeth
Julie B.
Linda A.
Colette
Gail H.
These certificates helped purchase the shelves that were hung, lamps, hangers for all that donated clothing, and new bed linens for the children.
Sunday evening we head back to Poland to pick up the kids. This time, our son Ross and Joyce are going with us. We are very excited to be going back to get the children and having the whole family together under one roof.