Monster Sitings

Simple Math

What is wrong with the following equation?
10 girls ages 8-11, a bunch of roofers, a room full of missionaries, a yard full of nursery toys to be cleaned, a one year old that loves to run away, and one leader (hint . . . the one leader would be me!)

Last Tuesday, I finally was able to get a hold of one of the assistant Activity Day leaders. (It only took me a month to get her to answer one of my phone calls.) She informed me she wouldn't be able to attend Activity Days the next day. That's a problem! We were planning on being outside. The last time I let the girls be outside, one of them ran away (under a fence into the horse pasture). I made a few frantic phone calls to Young Women in our ward, and was able to get one girl to commit to being there (actually, her mother committed her to being there).

Because of all the roofers roaming about, I wouldn't let the girls go anywhere without the Young Woman or myself accompanying them. Add to the that the fact the missionaries were having their distric meeting in the Relief Society room. Naturally, all the girls have crushes on the missionaries, and I was doing everything I possibly could to keep the girls away from the meeting. Lily didn't want to help clean, she wanted to be held the whole time, so I was just a supervisor. We were able to keep them focused enough to clean the nursery toys on the front lawn, and return the toys to the nursery room.

I really wouldn't have been able to do the activity alone.