Phew, well we did it. Last night was an organisational triumph. Glad I had done so much in advance and worked out teams/delegated roles etc for every half hour slot because it was all quite mental. Having said that, the kids were amazing - really focused despite their palpable off-the-scale levels of excitement. All the family members came as hoped. A nice mix of brothers, sisters, mums, dads and even two grandparents. Everyone seemed quite relaxed and happy to be there and not awkward as I feared - to be in a church building etc. I advertised the Good Friday children's service and 7 out of 20 kids are coming. (I'm making hot cross buns as part of the service.)
A friend (one of the mums) commented that at some of the messy church things she's seen, you never gets the adults eating with the kids which is a shame. Too early plus other family members needs feeding at home later anyway. Therefore it felt really special to have everyone sitting down and eating together last night. You couldn't do it every week but the gift of last night is that we were able to make it feel special - like a family meal out to celebrate something. Tablecloths, menus, music in the background, flowers on the table, schloer to drink all helped. The church warden kindly bought all the kids in the club an easter egg each to say thank you for their hard work which led to much jumping up and down with excitement. One child had even bought me a present to say thanks.
Washing/clearing up took ages, sabataged somewhat by drinking champagne with the team toward the end to celebrate all we'd achieved. And my brain is still a bit scrambled now from the intensity of it and how well it went. Thanks again to all who helped - I couldn't have done it without you. So here ends my pioneering project for now. Just got to add up the final sums and think about feeding back to my funders/course mates. All good.
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