Just this weekend, alone, is enough to make me need to kneel down to catch my breath.
Saturday night, we were leaders of a crew providing dinner at a youth homeless shelter, Teen Feed. When we started volunteering there (once monthly, or so, over a year ago), we used to have 25-30 guests for dinner. Last Saturday night, we had twice that, at least.
We were in charge of menu planning and execution of serving the meal.
We opted for a chili dog bar with all of the fixins. We served up nice, big quarter pound hot dogs and oversized buns, mostly homemade savory chili with mega protein and veggies, with toppings including sour cream, onions, jalapenos, cheddar cheese, hot sauce and such. Naturally, we had to provide vegan and/or gluten free options for the dogs and chili and buns. There were also sides of fresh fruits and vegetables.
Dessert was six different kinds of crispy rice cereal bars, with Halloween influences.
The diners loved having all the options and ate like they hadn't eaten in awhile (for instance, more than one had four hot dogs).
It was a challenging evening, and we were thanked profusely by many of the diners.
TREATING: Halloween was all sorts of fun. Abbreviated version: The kids both had award winning costumes. :)
Bee was Taco Belle, a mash up of Disney Princess Belle from Beauty and the Beast, and Taco Belle, one of America's favorite fast food establishments.
I cannot put into words how happy this costume made the general public who saw it. People yelled "TACO BELLE!!!" across stores and parking lots. They just loved it.
We bought a cheap Belle dress off of Amazon, and made the tacos out of felt, spray insulating foam (the meat/beans), yarn (for the cheese), tissue paper (the lettuce) and tomatoes (red foam).
Annabelle crafted the famous rose from the story out of hot sauce packets.
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