More pics here.We had quite the surprise this week. It started as Mary and I were on our way home from Santa Monica, a phone call from Molly. She is in the AmeriCorps for almost a year and we haven’t seen her since the first of October. Her and her “team” was returning to Sacramento from Austin Texas where they had been working with FEMA and hurricane Ike victims.
“Dad, we can’t make it to our hotel thanks to snow and highway closures. Can we stay at your place for the night?” she calls asking.
“Of course you can.” I reply.
“Um, how many of you are there?” I think to ask.
“Just eleven, and oh thanks a bunch, we’ll see ya in a couple of hours.” She says excitedly, and hangs up.
“Eleven young adults in our small house,” Mary states, “oh how exciting!”
Mary truly is a great hostess and when we arrived home she set to work borrowing mattresses and bedding from a few neighbors. Why a pillow here and foam pad there on the floor and she managed room for everyone. Truly amazing!
A few hours’ later two passenger vans pulled up as a bewildered neighbor watched them pile out and cram into our small home. Fortunately they had already eaten before arriving though we did provide an evening snack of milk and brownies.
Molly looked just great. She seemed happy and just the past few months of being part of a team has made a great change in her attitude.
“I can tell you aren’t so caught up into yourself.” compliments Mary.
“What, you thought I was all about myself before?” asks Molly.
“Yes!” we both reply laughing.
AmeriCorps has created some hopefully life changing attributes for Molly and I am so proud of her for joining and taking it to heart.
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