ONE HOUR:

I help with an Adoption Support Group once a month in South Bend. It’s a total of two hours. Everyone has dinner together and then I take the kids so the parents can talk.

It’s an exhausting ONE HOUR! They are all great kids and we have fun but the hyperness is off the charts! I try calm activities in hopes they will stay calm…nope. I do team-building games to focus their attention on something and that works until they all start arguing. Last month they asked to play Silent Ball. YES! PLEASE PLAY SILENT BALL! It wasn’t so silent.

Tonight we played the Spam game. There is a chair in the middle of the room with a can of Spam under it. Someone sits in the chair and has a blindfold on. After hitting them in the face a few times with a pool noodle to see if they flinch because they can see through the blindfold, I give them the pool noodle. Everyone else is in a wide circle around the chair and I point to someone to be the one who tries to get the Spam from under the chair without getting hit by the pool noodle. I figure if you have a lot of aggression then just hit each other with a pool noodle. Nobody gets hurt. They loved the game and we played several rounds but somehow they argued over the can of Spam that was doing nothing but sitting under the chair!

They have been asking for months to play hide and go seek in the dark. NO. Well, I decided to buy a bunch of glow sticks and let them play glow in the dark hide and seek. They were very clever to put the glow sticks in different places than where they were hiding. I was impressed. A few rounds of that and the hyperness and arguing and I decided to just let them have a glow stick dance party. Why not put music to the chaos?!

I found kids Christian dance music on Spotify and played it through the speaker and guess what happened. They all started singing the songs! All were singing about Jesus.

These awesome kids came from some rough situations and they may have some struggles but thank you Jesus they ended up in Christian homes who play kids Christian music for them and invest in their lives. Thank you Jesus for rescuing them.

Here are a few pics of the dance party. Not the best pics but that’s ok!