This week was crazy. Filled with planning, planning, and more planning for this weekend– which happens to be chock full of youth events. Though it was a bummer that Kevin didn’t get a sub job this first week of school, it was a relief to have him at home working hard alongside me to see […]
The One with the Early Alarms
It’s weird that waking up at 5:55am is so much easier than waking up at 6:43am. For the last few weeks I’ve been rolling out of bed at quarter to 7, and I felt like I could have stayed there for a couple more hours. This week, as Kevin prepared to go “back to school” substitute […]
The One with the Hair Style Strategies
I am now going to attempt a little tutorial on hair styling. None of my hair styles–up, down, straight, wavy–take longer than 5-10 minutes. I know I am blessed because I have hair that doesn’t take long to dry, and hair so fine it doesn’t take long to wrangle, but I believe some of these […]
The One with the Bad Hair History
I’m going to share with you the things I’ve learned about doing my hair that I probably should have known years ago but I’m sharing them with you anyways because someone somewhere might appreciate knowing what I should have known years ago.* *I’ve always wanted to rock the run-on sentence. As a young girl I […]
The One with the Reason for Labor
Full time youth ministry (or any ministry I’m sure…) is a unique category of work. Hours of labor are nearly impossible to log. The duties of your job description seem to become irreversibly intertwined with your “real” life. You go from having your life and your work… …to your life and your work being your work and […]
The One with the Deep Roots
I really had high hopes. plans. dreams. For some sort of deep and thought provoking (or at the very least interesting) post. But alas, my face is sleepy. My eyeballs are dried out. They’re itchy too. Darn ragweed and pollen and tree stuffs. And my arms need to be scratched. Thanks to the hour I […]
The One with Books and THE Book
Bible Quizzing is awesome.Our quizzers totally rocked my socks off tonight.It was a solid practice.With kids actually studying together.And many of them showing the fruits of their memorizing labor from this summer.I’m so *proud.* And it has to help that we’ve gone from 3 quizzers last season to 8-11 this year!(I leave that range because […]