Staff Blog

Mothers' Day is a time to focus on our moms, their love and the great contributions they have made to our lives. Let's take some time to think about the aunties at CSC who take on the role of substitute mothers for our children. Most of these women have children of their own, so their work with the CSC kids is a testimony to the depth of their reservoir of love. CSC relies so heavily on the contributions of these workers, women to mother the motherless children of CSC. God bless them, especially on this Mother's Day.

Every week has it's own excitement,  and it's own joys and problems to deal with.  This week was no exception.  We have had a fun week with the kids.  Summer vacation is on,  summer school and summer fan classes have started.  We have recently admitted seven new kids ages three to nine;  so we  have  lots of behavior to observe and respond to with them.  One of our little guys had the experience of having his very excited adoptive family emerge from the van....a family was made.   We have had birthday parties to celebrate and spent one afternnoon cooling off with the little swimming pools.   We were concerned about our Jacob,  he had to be hospitalized, but as of a few minutes ago Jacob's  very happy room mate (that would be Joemar) came running to my office to report that Jacob was home!  Kites are still the afternoon activity of choice for the boys.  Sidewalk chalk art was one days project.  Roselyn found a way to keep her newly claimed  kitten close to home....   We  do admit to complaining about how hot is it about every 13 seconds, but,  over all it was a good week!

When children are admitted to CSC they almost always start their time with us in the infirmary. Most of them have parasites or need to be checked for tuberculosis. For some of the kids it isn't a lot of fun to be stuck in isolation when the kids are playing down on the playground. They are happy when the day comes that they can go down the steps and move into their new residence.

The other day our new sibling group of four made that move. Chosar, Marie, Charls Kyle and Stone had been in isolation for just a few days but were very anxious to say goodbye to the nursing staff and head for the Cherne Home. So when the time came they grabbed their stuff and headed out. Even though Stone, the youngest, was still asleep, the older three could not wait. Friends and aunties were waiting to greet them. Toys and Barbie dolls were also waiting. It was a grand day, and Auntie Tammy captured it on video.

It is summer time at CSC.   That means it is hot, really hot,  too hot.  But,  the heat does not seem to deter the boys from making and flying kites,  at any given moment there are numerous kite activities going on; making them, attempting to fly them,  flying them, untangling the ones that get tangled together,  trying to get them out of the trees  and making sure we all see how high their kite is flying! There has to be some genetic code in all red blooded Filipino boys....April and May are for kites.   

Today was GRADUATION day for five of our Preschool kids and three graduating from elementary into High School.  It was a fun day for the Graduates! 

We are now legally on our summer break - pray for a fun and safe time for each of our kids, and for our sanity! Having almost 90 kids on vacation in one place....oh my.

Enjoy the photos...

Pray along with us for comfort, healing and peace for our friends and loved ones in Boston.  

Continuing on with the theme of kites!  Recently, I spent an afternoon hanging out with the kids at the shelter.  Almost immediately, Jhaycob ran up to me with a tangled-up pile of string.  He wanted me to untangle it so he could use it to fly his kite.  I began looking around the yard and it was incredible how many kids were playing with kites.  Some were making them, and others were busy untangling strings.  Some of the kids were the "holders" and others were the "runners".  Toddlers dragged plastic bags across the yard, and the older kids and houseparents had huge, fancy kites flying high in the sky!  Some of the kites even had writing on them: "Fly CSC", "Cherne WOW", and "WOW CSC"!  Enjoy a video of some of the different activities that were going on that day!