Being a happy helper

With Christmas rolling around "Posadas," which is a traditional event in remembrance of Joseph and Mary's search for an inn, seem to be taking place at every company, school, hospital, etc. And the school Angel (Kenji's 10 yr. old uncle) attends wasn't an exception.

Upon asking the Lord whether we should attend the Posada, mainly for courtesy sake, the Lord confirmed that it was His will for us to go and that we could even be of a help to them in some way.

The Lord showed us to help them out by bringing the drinks and "bolos" (bags with treats) needed for the Posada. There would be approximately 150 people, 70 of which would be kids.

We began provisioning the things we would need for the treat bags as well as the drinks a good 3 weeks prior to the Posada, but with 1 week till the Posada things just didn't seem to be falling into place as we had hoped they would.

At first this was a bit disheartening as we had already promised to bring these things, which meant one way or another we had to bring them. If we couldn't provision them than we would have to buy them. Something we weren't to fond of doing.

We took the situation to the Lord again and He confirmed that it was still His will for us to go through with this and that there was a special reason why He hadn't allowed the things we needed for the event to come through yet.

We began wielding the weapon of "Extreme Praise" and continued "knocking on doors/hearts" and it was just amazing to see the Lord come through with everything we needed and more in less than a week.

And that's not all. Amazingly enough one juice/milk company helped with all 150 bottles of juices and one candy company helped with all the various candies/treats we needed to put in the bolos, which was around 10 different treats per bag. What a miracle!

Anyhow, here are some photos of putting the bolos together and of course Kenji was more than willing to be a happy helper for this little job :D.


Guess that's his description of "helping" us.



It beats me how he knew that the candies were something to eat. Prior to this he hadn't eaten candies before.








And there it is; his first chocolate. And mind you he ate the entire thing and would have eaten the entire box if grandma hadn't taken it away from him.







Just as I was about to congratulate her for doing so, I catch her given him a lollipop and was quite happy about it too ... grrr ... grandma!






The proud and happy candy packagers' with the finished product.


To tell you the truth all Kenji was interested in was opening up a bag. GL!



You know I've heard people say not to give chocolate to kids close to bedtime as it will keep them awake, but I'll have to disagree on that one.

Kenji ate about 2 bars of chocolate and believe it or not when bed time came around he went right to sleep. And his sleep was deeper and thus longer. YES!!! Praise God for chocolate! What an answer to prayer ... hee, hee.


Here he his at the Posada.