[Joe Wicked]

Very cool. The lady yesterday was very appreciative. She is a single mother of a 7 year old. She works as a lab tech at the Baylor Heart Center in Plano and the house next door is another habitat house that is in progress as well and belongs to a co-worker of hers. The construction manager (or whatever his title is, the guy who gets paid to be there) had a lot of fun harassing her all day long. She never stopped smiling the whole day. Lifting wood and straining, she was still smiling. Very appreciative. I heard her ask if there was a way she could repay all the volunteers through habitat. They told her that she is more than welcome to come out to other builds as well. She said that she was doing that to repay habitat, but what about everyone else. I stepped over and told her that a thank you was enough. Her mom and dad showed up with her son around lunch and her mom was in tears that so many people who did not know them were helping. It was worth it, so much more so than I thought it would be.