{"id":1840,"date":"2009-03-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1840"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:15:19","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:15:19","slug":"it-made-it-all-well-worth-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1840","title":{"rendered":"It made it all well worth it!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Yogi family belongs to a big Megachurch. We love it there and have got to know a lot of people and find the whole experience rewarding.<\/p>\n<p>One of the things that though is that they are always short of volunteers for the Children&#8217;s Sunday Schools. I understand why. We got a little burned out as we taught together in SuperPizzaBoy&#8217;s classes for several years. We got burnt out so we quit for a while.<\/p>\n<p>Sweetie started teaching again late last year in the four year old class. She ended up being the only adult though in a whole room full of healthy rambunctious kids. I volunteered to help out.<\/p>\n<p>Last Sunday was my first duty. It was fun. Sweetie was the boss so I just got to play with the kids. I played legos with the boys at the lego table, I played duck duck goose with the girls. I helped shepherd them down and back from the big group room. Got to hold some hands doing that.<\/p>\n<p>Back to the four year old&#8217;s room Sweetie led the lesson and I tried kept the boys focused. Then the snack. I got to help pass out the mix. Some kids liked marshmellows, others goldfish, others pretzels. I had a bunch of demanding customers. They kept me hopping pretty good!<\/p>\n<p>I did get a tip though. One little girl said come here, hugged my neck with her little arms, and said &#8220;you smell beautiful.&#8221; I&#8217;m not sure what she meant, I don&#8217;t wear any cologne but I do bathe at least once every spring, but it made my day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yogi family belongs to a big Megachurch. We love it there and have got to know a lot of people and find the whole experience rewarding. One of the things that though is that they are always short of volunteers for the Children&#8217;s Sunday Schools. I understand why. We got a little burned out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[751],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}