I Love Bleach!

We've had a good Saturday around GLA so far! We had a pretty relaxing morning- slept in, hung around, played with a few of our favorite babies. Around lunchtime, my mom and Kim V headed off for the afternoon to do some shopping. We sent them off with a list from several of us of other things they wanted. It's Kim's birthday today- Happy Birthday Kim!!!- so she got to get out for a little bit, which was nice.
In the afternoon, once all of the bigger babies were done eating lunch on the balcony, the Hillcrest team moved in with our bleach, Ajax and brushes. There tends to be a lot of mildew that accumulates with the high humidity down here, and having so many kids in such a small space makes it difficult to keep it clean. It helps a lot to do some deep scrubbing every once in a while, and we were glad to help out! We cleaned their outside balcony, where the kids spend a lot of their time. We scrubbed the railings, the high chairs and the feeding tables really well! We finished the balcony in about an hour, and were willing to do more yet, so we moved into one of the rooms of the nursery. They crammed all of the kids in one room, which was quite crazy- there were about 60 kids in an approx. 12 by 25 foot room. The nannies who are in the room we cleaned helped us wipe down all of the mattress, scrub the cribs, scrub the walls, mop the floor, clean the fan, wipe the lights, etc. They made us laugh, because they were having so much fun with the cleaning, and they wanted to get absolutely everything. It was a great attitude to have- if they were going to clean, they were going to clean it all! We got all of the dirt possible out of that room. When we were done, the nannies were so excited! It was great! They all had to go around and pound all of our fists, shouting bravo! The room smelled so nice afterwards, leading me to say- I love bleach! It's definitely more fun to clean when you can see an immediate difference!
We've been hanging around for the rest of the afternoon, playing some cards while we wait for supper. I'm sure we'll get more kid cuddling in before the day is done.
It's so hard to believe that it's almost time for us to think about packing up! I'm sure that our last day will go very, very fast, which I'm not excited about. We've all fallen in love with the kids here. They've touched our lives, and we pray that we have been able to touch their lives with Christ's love.
Kristin