Day 284: Count money

Nana here. Well, here it is a new year and a new month, which means it is my groups turn to "count the money" at St. Jude's. Four of us showed up and 2 worked on the 4:00 Mass (as that has the greatest attendance) and the other 2 did a Mass by themselves. Not too much chatting went on, so we were done pretty quickly. Last months group didn't have time to do the coins (only done at the end of the month as not too many coins are dropped in the basket these days) so I did them. Had to laugh at one envelope that had enough pennies, nickles and dimes to make a dollar and the word "Visitor" written on the front of a plain envelope. I guess I shouldn't have laughed, as it could have been the story of the "widows mite" in the gospel and that was all she or he had. The papers we fill out for the office and the money agreed, so we were off to the bank in an hour and fifteen minutes---making up for the many times we make a mistake somewhere and the "volunteer time" doubles.