Shiny and beautiful

Many of you know I am not an animal lover. And I especially don’t like bugs. My kids missed out on a ‘normal’ childhood because I would not permit pets in the house that could: 1) get out of their cages, 2) slither or crawl, and 3) had fur that I was ‘allergic’ to (in other words, everything else 😅).

We did have a ten-gallon fish tank until someone played with the tank. We came home after church to find the hose hanging out the tank, siphoning water onto the carpet, leaving only two inches of water in the tank. We kept the tank until all the fish died. (Oh, and after I had the dream of the plecostomus [suckermouth catfish] chasing me!)

Well, today I took a few pictures during sacrament meeting. I know I shouldn’t be taking pictures in the chapel, but, I had to show proof that “It’s more fun in the Philippines”!

We’ve become friends with some of the young children. I bring coloring pages and crayons for them to color; otherwise, some of them like to run around the pews, and sometimes up behind the pulpit.

This little three-year-old crawled under the bench from two rows back to show me what he had in his handkerchief.  It was a beautiful iridescent green and blue BEETLE!

Then, his older brother threw HIS beetle over (from two rows back) so there were TWO!

He would lay his handkerchief flat on the bench, place the beetles on the hanky, neatly fold the hanky, then PUSH and SMOOSH it into his pocket! Then he would unwrap it and set the beetles on the bench, sometimes headed in my direction. I did okay. I MAY have scooted closer to Jan... really close.