Overnight Shift

I had a great experience last week that I wanted to share about, but my internet has been gone for 4 days so I am just now getting a chance to blog :) TIA!!!
The team from Holland, Michigan decided to bless our overnight staff by offering to stay up all night and perform all the duties that the overnight staff normally does and to allow them a little time to sleep. I was with 4 of the team members and we were in the Pula houses. Our staff was a little stubborn and kept feeding the little baby in the room (10 day old) and insisted she would let us help her later, meanwhile I had a fantastic conversation with one of the girls from the team so neither one of us were tired, I can not say that about the other 3, hahaha. Finally at 3am we were put to work.

I was in the kitchen washing dishes, another girl was learning how to make the porridge and stirring it with a big wooden stick :) The other 3 girls were waking up kids and having them sit on their little potty chairs (which I assure you the kids did NOT like at 3:30am). They bathed kids and helped them get dressed and I moved on to making all the bottles for the babies on both sides of the house. Then I moved over to the other side of the house and had the fun job of putting kids in their nappies (diapers), slathering on some Vaseline and getting them dressed for the day. I had to laugh when a few of the kids said, "M'e Anita did you sleep here last night?" The overnight staff were happy to have our help and they thanked me over and over again. Then one of the house mothers (who had slept during the overnight) came into the bathroom where I was getting kids ready and her face was shocked, "You Me' Anita! You stayed up all night at our house, thank you so much!" is what she said as if I had done something grand. I actually had a great time and if I did not have 3 kids and a job as their teacher, I would do it more often.

What struck me the most was their thankfulness as if I had really done something amazing. I gave up a little sleep for one night and they made me feel like I had done something worth a medal :) Sometimes it is the small things that really make a difference and I am glad God put me and the other girls there to do our small thing for those house staff!