Scars of the Ministry

Sunday night, I was the substitute Music leader for our TeamKid program. During one of the songs, we wave our hands over our heads. 2 kids, a boy and a girl, who can't seem to keep their hands off of each other, were waving their hands in each other's faces. In an attempt to keep them from hurting each other, I stepped in to separate them and ended up getting hit myself. See evidence below. This was Sunday night a few hours after the incident. This was Monday morning as I was getting ready! I'm not sure that it looks much better even today. It doesn't hurt and I forget about it being there until someone asks me what happened to me. LT wants me to be sure that people know he didn't do this to me!
The funny thing now is that Bailey fell off a bar stool this afternoon and hit his cheekbone, right under his eye, on the stool. Now he has a big bruise sort of like mine!

I've learned my lesson. From now on I'll just let the kids beat each other up and avoid the humiliation of similar injuries in the future!

For the Record

Just in case you're wondering why I may be absent from Blogworld for a couple of days, I am absolutely exhausted and there's no time to stop and take a break! The 5 minutes I've spent typing so far could've been better spent doing something more productive like planning a training meeting or making cookies for the training meeting or trying to convince my son that going pee pee on the potty is a good thing or wrapping gifts to give the new mom's at their little brunch tomorrow or doing laundry or trying to get organized for our trip to South Carolina or hiding my head under a blanket and crying a couple of buckets because that's really what I feel like doing. I've had a bad day and it just gets worse as I think about all I need to do before 8:30 tomorrow morning! My 'part time' job has completely taken over my life. It consumes me, every moment of my life, and is a big part of the reason I have to rely on Benadryl now to sleep.

So when you see my blog and it's not updated over the next couple of days, just say a prayer that God would miraculously raise up volunteers who are willing to help a part time interim children's minister and mother of 2 small children do some of the tasks that have become quite time consuming and overwhelming!

You're Dying from the Suspense, Aren't You?

So, Saturday I told you I had an interview/meeting on Sunday and it's now Tuesday and I've not blogged or said another word about the interview/meeting.

The i/m went well and the personnel committee voted to recommend to the deacons that I be hired as the Interim Preschool and Children's Minister at FBCEP. All you Baptist peeps out there know that the deacons now have to vote and then a proposal will be made to the congregation and they'll have to vote and have the official Yes or No. So, the earliest I'll know for positive is like the first week of November. I'll keep you posted!

Interview

I meet at 7 pm tomorrow evening (10/14) with the Personnel Committee to discuss the 'opportunity' I mentioned in a previous post. The opportunity is to be the Interim Preschool and Children's minister at FBCEP. I'm excited and anxious and lots of other emotions, plus we're all dealing with some sort of sinusy allergy thing and I'm absolutely exhausted for some reason. I'll blame that on my children who can't seem to get back in a sleeping groove since we returned from SC. Jake has said we can never do that again because the children have morphed into little sleep deprived monsters who can't seem to get back into a good daily routine! Sorry for the digression...So pray for my little meeting/interview tomorrow night. I have a job description in hand that is very doable. There will be a few details to work out, but we're trusting the Lord to lead us and the committee to make the best decision for our family and for my ministry to children in HIS church.

Since it's Saturday I have to mention the Auburn Tigers who squeeked out a very ugly win against the Razorbacks tonight. War Eagle! Contrary to what the Wade boys have predicted, the Tigers may win enough games to be bowl eligible, after all!

ME day

Today was a very nice day. I got some desperately needed ME time. After having a rough, but convicting day on Sunday, my friend Sheri decided I needed a break and some time for myself. Today was THE day! After taking Bailey to school, Maverick and I came home and got dressed and watched 2 interesting snippets of TV. (those snippets come later in this post) We met my very pregnant friend Jen at Starbucks for some chat time before we had to pick up our children from two different Mother's Morning Out programs, school to Bailey. After picking him up and getting him a Happy Meal we were on our way to drop off the boys at Sheri's house. I snuck out of the house while Bailey was distracted with Thomas on PBS.

I made my way to solo shop! I love to shop and find a good deal, but that's hard to do with 2 boys who don't care if you find a good deal. I was on a mission to find Maverick a coordinating outfit to take a picture or two with Bailey on Thursday when he goes for his 2 year pictures - pray for cooperation! He has a seersucker suit that Jake and I bought in Las Vegas when he was 3 months old and he's never worn it. We bought a 12 month and it's been too big and not in season - seersucker and snow don't go together. Now it just fits so we're going to have a picture taken in it and will wear it at least 2 times to church in the next few weeks. Gotta get my money's worth out of it until Maverick can wear it. I ended up getting Maverick a pair of seersucker pants at Old Navy and a long sleeve white button down shirt from Children's Place. I'm looking forward to dressing them up and seeing how Bailey's going to like the bowtie I bought to go with his suit. I can feel the DRAMA already! The bad thing about me having ME time is that I usually spend money. Today I did have 2 gift cards that made a dent in my spending so I can be grateful for that!

To my TV snippets for the day...Rachael Ray had some entrepreneur moms on today and one of them makes these great shirts that say just about everything I've wanted to say to some well meaning people along the journey. Check out Gabbybaby. I especially like this shirt and have needed this one more times than I'd like to remember.

Then a little while later I was watching this show on TLC, I don't know the name of it, but these random mommies get together and discuss the woes of one of them. Today the woe was this woman who was all worried that her child was delayed developmentally. She spent the whole show complaining about how her little girl didn't show any interest in crawling. She compared her to all the other kids who would pull themselves up and stand next to chairs or tables. She even went so far as saying that she dreamed of the day her husband would walk her down the aisle, implying she was afraid the little girl would never walk! I promise the little girl couldn't have been a year old. I had to turn the TV off because I just wanted to tell this mom and dad to get over themselves! Every child is different and reaches milestones at different times and not all according to the time table in the Adolescent Development textbooks. I know all first time moms go through these fears, but we've just gotta give our kids time to be themselves and to grow and mature on the timetable the Lord has set for them. We need to be responsible and intentional about instructing and giving them opportunities to get stronger, but spending time worrying about the 'what ifs' gets us nowhere. It goes totally against the Lord's encouragement in His word to think about the things that are TRUE!

Enough of my TV analyzation for the day...