We had a barn raising today.

One of my favorite movie scenes is in the film Witness with Harrison Ford. He is hiding out in the Amish community to protect his murder witness. During the course of his stay, there is a scene where the entire Amish community spends the day putting up a barn for a newly wedded couple. Litterally, the whole community comes and they put up a barn in one day. Everyone has a job and they just jump in and get it done.
Well, Church for us today lasted all of four minutes and ended with a barn raising. We sat down on "our" pew to listen to the prelude music (Geoff had gone early for a meeting), and soon Samantha had to go to the bathroom. I sent Maren with her. A few minutes later, Maren came back and said "Samy is really sick. She just threw up!" Crap. I asked if she made it in the bathroom. "Nope. It's right over there." She points to the doorway of the chapel. Nice. So, I went over and the barn was being raised.... People all over were cleaning up Samy's half digested oatmeal. I went into the bathroom to find her and a couple other people were helping her wash up. It always impresses me when the whole "community" just diggs in and does a job. It's most impressive when it is at the end of a ward activity and chairs and tables are being cleaned up and put away so fast it looks like they are flying through the air. The motivation being that everyone wants to get home, but today, the motivation was just friends being neighborly. I love it.

Since we've been home, Samy unloaded one more batch of oatmeal on the rug by the back door -- we needed a new one anyway -- and has dry-heaved quite a few times since. Poor little baby. I will say that she has been a champ about getting every drop into the purple 'throw-up bowl', though.