Laura (and her sister) haven't been in my Sunday School class for a good while. And while that's usually chalked up to them visiting one set of grandparents or the other on most weekends, I heard news yesterday that gave me pause ( Read more... )

Chuck, our church's district superintendent, is retiring at the end of June and is making one last circuit of the 110 or so churches under his responsibility. This morning, that meant us ( Read more... )

First off, we had a reception yesterday afternoon at our church for Sarah, our oldest member (89 YO) who is moving to Texas later this month to live with her granddaughter. Marlea was helping her mom in the kitchen when she saw me come in with my unevenly-distributed-George-Clooney hairstyle ( Read more... )

I walked into church this morning after spending last weekend in Florida. As soon as I sat down, Katilynn fingered me over to her pew.

K- Where were you last week?
Me- I was in Florida on vacation.
K- Well don't do that again. Billy [her brother] and Laura had to teach last week, and I didn't like it.I'm a co-teacher of the older kids, and ( Read more... )

(PS: We can still say "babes", right? I mean, these are kindegarteners and 1st graders.)

Today was my first week of subbing for the younger Sunday School class teacher, who was out due to neck surgery. The lesson was about Zacchaeus. Since Zacchaeus was a tax collector, I had the class talking about what their moms and dads do for work ( Read more... )

Tonight, I served as Marlea's de facto babysitter during Bible study ( Read more... )

I have two females fighting over me -- at church, no less ( Read more... )