God is good. I have had the best last four days, and I feel really blessed. Philip is out of town, and while that does not have anything to do with me having such an outstanding weekend, I have to mention it, because usually when he's out of town things are really crazy, and by that I mean - I'm really crazy. It's typically me and the kids and eventually them driving me crazy. Anway, I have had a wonderful last few days and wanted to share.
Thursday, Christi stopped by for a quick visit, which was really nice, because we haven't seen each other in forever, and it was wonderful to visit and get a hug. That evening Gin, Holly, Candy and I shared coffee (or warm milk for some) and many, many laughs, which always turn into tears from laughing so ridiculously hard. I treasure our time together. It's so good and to be able to catch up even if for just a few hours and have a good laugh or two.
Friday evening my parents graciously obliged to keep the kids while I went to a baby shower for a friend from church. It was a couples shower and the kids were welcome to come, but it was nice to go and visit, and catch up with everyone from our Life Group class. After the shower I headed out to Tennisonville for MORE girl time. We had SO much fun visiting, swapping stories, laughing, laughing, and laughing some more until 4:30 Saturday morning! I haven't stayed up that late in a very long time, and while I was a wee bit tired the next day, it was so worth it. My heart and soul had been restored with time spent with some of the females in my life, and I am very grateful to my parents for keeping the precious urchins, and to God for good friends.
Saturday I took the kids to see the new Shrek after running errands, and while there were parts that were certainly more geared towards adults it was pretty cute and they had a good time. We had a pretty good, fairly lazy rest of the day - doing some coloring and painting and watching a few cartoons.
And finally, today. I went to a new Parenting study for Life Group this morning, which will last 6-weeks, and really enjoyed it. I'll keep you posted on what I learn. And, I have to say, this morning's worship service was one of the best I've been to in a long time. For many reasons. We've combined our two services into one for the time being, and so they've blended the worship between traditional hymns and contemporary songs, and I loved it. The church was the fullest I've seen it in a long time, and it felt like such a family. and when everyone was singing, it was so loud and filled up that big sanctuary like it used to when I was kid. It was kind of emotional for me for several reasons. It was just a good, raw, nostalgic, yet new, sort of thing. The sermon revealed a parabale in Luke in new light and was really thought provoking.
We also had a wonderful Father's Day lunch with my dad. The kids called P this morning on speaker (as Dylan requested). They yelled Happy Father's Day! We miss you, and proceeded to give him play by plays of what we were doing - donut shop, so and so's licking me, etc. I'm sure P enjoyed it.
So a few things...if you haven't been blessed with some girl time - whether coffee with one friend, or a semi-sleepover with several, or even a good phone conversation - DO IT! Pick up the phone or make some plans, because you will be blessed!!!!
And if you don't have a church home in Longview - come join us one Sunday. I really think people will enjoy the blended worship - a little bit of traditional with a litlte bit of contemporary seemed like just the right thing this morning! www.fbcl.org
Well, this is one of the posts where at the end, I think to myself, "Why does anyone care what I did this weekend?" But maybe writing about what's important to me, and mundane to others, will at leaset keep me in the habit of posting. We'll see. Peace and love.
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