So i guess i just need to share with my dear cats some stuff playing through my mind on pretty much a daily basis right now. This Restoration House thing is really starting to take shape and it just might be the scariest thing ever. Seriously, like scarier than most things i have experienced until now. Saturday we trained our first group of mentors. We handed them a 50 page handbook and spent three hours training them. The funny thing is i am training them on something i haven't really done myself yet. It is a little odd to think of it this way. I mean this whole TRH thing is a theory that, although has been effective in other places in the country, may or may not work here in K-town. So this week my sister is moving out and then renovations on the upstairs will take place and then...lo and behold a strange woman and her baby will move in. We officially start taking referrals this week. For the last four weeks pretty much once to twice a week we get a phone call asking if we are taking referrals yet. For so long TRH has been so conceptual and so much time has been focused on raising the money to stay afloat and putting together the nuts and bolts of how all this will work on a daily basis. Now the time is almost here--it will actually happen in the next couple months and although i know we are doing exactly what God wants us to do i am not sure how i feel about it. Don't get me wrong of course there is excitement and all that but i have never felt this way before. I am neither overwhelmed or dreading it, i am not chomping at the bit to get started or ambivalent. I think i am just ready to see "it" happen. I am not completely sure what "it" is but i am hoping it is restoration for as many single mother families as it can possibly be. I just can't believe that what we have been working towards for two years now comes down to this unknown woman and her baby that will be moving into my/her house very soon.
So there ya go. If you got this far in reading...thanks. On another note, is the party at Nessa's still goin down this weekend? Liz, are you pushing yet? Klepper, you obviously still hate us. Bets will you be at Nessa's?
Much love.
Meow
Mandy
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Mandy- You guys are going to do awesome things for those mothers and their babies and to the glory of
God. You have thoroughly prepared and now is the time to put it in action. It is going to be great! Let me know if you need any help (especially on Mondays or Wednesdays). Yes, I am planning on being at Vanessa's on Friday- she said about 6:00. I think she said she was going to give you a call to see about food or whatever. And yes, clearly Klepper hates us all!
-Betsy
LOL! When she reads this she is going to be so pissed that we said she hates us that she probably will refuse to post at all! :)
Thanks for the encouragement Bets!
Mandy
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