THE TREE’S UP!

And the pop-up tree.
Cute YW
December 9, 2010 Thursday


Last night after the bread run, we picked up Marcella as soon as she returned from work. She ate dinner with us, hamburger soup and sausage rolls. Then we spent a couple of hours with her talking about The Choice and how we choose our reactions to situations. It took her a long time to see that her constant worrying about what people were saying about her was very self-focused. We drew her a chart showing that and then another one showing how she could become others-focused. She didn’t show the intense anger toward people that she did on Sunday. She’s been studying the material we had gone over in an effort to understand it better. She flies out on Saturday at 5:00 pm but is coming over earlier in the day to talk some more.
While we were tracting, we came to a house that had a sign that said, “Wild Animal Carer.” (A “carer” is someone who takes care of somebody or something. Lots of carers work at the nursing home.) The lady who answered the door said she couldn’t talk right then because she was trying to set the broken foot of a wallaby someone had dropped off. She has 12 wallabies that she’s taking care of. She said she’d been friends with some of the elders who’ve served here and that we can come back and visit.
Tonight was YW. Carolyn and Jessi came. The older girls are in Perth visiting some universities. Jessi is now living with her aunt who didn’t have a problem with her coming over. (She said her father had taken away the set of scriptures we’d given her—darn it!) We made popcorn balls and decorated our Christmas tree. The girls hung stuff in front of the windows too. We have a bunch of extra lights that they wanted to hang outside. But it was dark and we have no idea whether there’s even an outlet on the outside. The tree was in the storage room outside by the washer. It’s not much to look at, but at least it’s a tree. We also have a “pop-up tree” that’s green with purple stars on it. Now all we need to do is put away all the boxes the stuff was in.