I went into the middle school to have lunch with my youth group kids today. I love doing that but i never do it enough. It is funny, when i go for lunch i feel like i am in middle school again. I think that might be why i don't go that often. I don't like the feeling, but I am going to try and go every 3 weeks. For the reason thereis no other time i can meet that many kids at once. out like a fat kid in dodge ball
I have decided my cats are on crack. Jack he follows me downstairs to do laundry and i go upstairs to get more laundry and as i am down to our main jack is sprinting from the basement and hiding in fear in a random paper bag in the living room. I nearly dropped the laundry it was so funny. Jack is so scared of the basement. I think it is haunted by dead mice.....
I am exited today i did a final walk through with the landlord at our old apt.
Some things are beginning to get put away at the new house. I love living in a house. It is a lot of work, but you get such a sense of pride out of it. We moved Jack and Jill in last night our 2 cats.
I will be very glad when 05 is over this has been such a stressful year. I feel a little warn down from it, but i am excited for christmas.
a packing we will go! Why is life so insane. Vicki and i are currently packing. I think i am going to become homeless, just so i don't have all this crap. Why do i have so many things. Well back to work!
Yesterday was great. It was youth sunday. The students did such a great job, I am always so excited to see what they come up with. The theme was Psalm 24. Other than that we are getting ready for the big move. I am so excited to be in our house! We will be having a party after the 1st of the year.
the pancake breakfast went awesome. Most of the 280 sausage got eaten. I went an saw a play last night in philly tuesdays with Morrie. It was ok. It was great spending the evening with my wife and doing the whole we actually have a life thing. What is so cool is we are moving into our house on November 18th. The carpet comes on November 11th, so i need to get moving on painting, but we are so excited. We will be having a house blessing party which will be awesome.
today i ran around like a madman. Went to the house and painted ran errans hung out with a awesome student. I cooked a 280 sausage today. Yeah how is that for odd. We have pancake breakfast on sunday. My parents rule they bought tickets even though they are 7 hours away. Know i am off to hang out with some teenagers... I love my life..
i am alive. I have just had a really hard to months. I think i am going to come out of my cave soon to see the light. It is amazing how in ministry you can just feel broken all of the time.
Lately, life has been crazy. You ever feel like you have way to many things going on. I have been working on our house like every night after work. I love it because it is my house. But it is beginning to feel like a second job. What is very cool though, is my wife has been helping a lot. It has been fun to watch her work with tools and learn how to do a few days before. The other day I taught her how to cut wall board. It was very fun to see her learn all this stuff. We finally started painting which has been fun. I am hoping we will finish painting the downstairs this week. I am going to refinish the downstairs floors. Which will be a beast but my father in-law is going to help. That should make for a real hard week next week.
I started a new book this week. God in the waste land. I was supposed to read it 3 years ago for college. But you all know that goes. It seems to be very good. Somewhat dishearting. I have reading about a book a week for the last month.It has been very nice. I am going to try and keep this up. I miss school. I really hope i can start in January. I trying to start a non-profit business masters. It would nice to actually look at budget and know what it is saying. I think it will help with the youth center. Which if you don't is my term dream/goal.
Just to give you a little idea wha i was doing this summer. This our Junior High summer trip. The Great Escape. So this is one of kids destroying me. He is only in 8th grade and he is larger and stronger than i am and he proved that during the crud war. So much fun The Aliens are coming watch out!
Well summer seems to be over. I am busier than I ever thought possible. Life and Ministry has been going well. I have so many exciting things going on in my life.
We bought a house. I have been working on that like crazy. I am over there almost every night. I love it though. I think in some ways i missed my second calling to work with my hands. I find it extremely relaxing to create, be it for fucntion or beauty. I am putting in closet into our bedroom. Except for a few rookie mistakes it has been going really well. I am enjoying it seems to be going slow though.
The next project i am working on is a coffee table for our new house. It is almost complete. I must say it looks hot. It took my friend Wes and I a while to figure different parts of the project. But I imagine it will be done in a matter of weeks. We really just have to finish it then we will be done with with. On to the next project. I don't know what that will be only time will tell.
All of this work does make me feel like a real man though.
I am excited for this weekend because Ed is coming up which will awesome. I am scott hackman tommorow, which will be equally as awesome, if not a little bit more becasue I have not seen him in years.
Other than that I have been trying to take care of my family. I never realized how hard it is to be husband. My wife is amazing, i never tell her that enough. Marriage is the most amazing instution created by God. It is so similiar to our relationship with him. By loving my wife i can more fully love God which is awesome.
I just got from a high adventure week. I took a bunch of students, hiking, repelling, mountain biking, white water rafting, and caving. It was a awesome week, we went through an organization called SB2Wild.
I have decided/declared my life is crazy. I leave monday for the great escape to be gone another week. I feel like i barely even saw my wife this week.
On top of that we settle on our house tommorow. Which is insane. I don't know if I will sleep tonight. I am very excited but scared. Why does everything have to happen at once?
Personally, I feel great God has been using me a lot lately. I am going to attempt an update to tommrow. A shout out to man Chris, thanks for calling. Hopefully i will get you back this weekend.
So I am back to loving my job again. We went tubing down the delware at Bucks county river country. I love that place. They really take you for a ride finicially. But it is still awesome. Little thinks like they charge you to park.But you have no options to park anywhere else.What is with that. But we brought like 26 kids. It was awesome. Everyone kept flipping each other off the tube. So much fun. I got to give a shout to one of the new sixth graders that went, Kinsey. She is awesome. I kept flipping different kids. I did not want to flip her because I was not sure how comfortable she was in the water. She ends up chasing me down river and wants to know why i did not fip her. So i did. So much fun...
My awesome bride, she is like the queen of tubing. It took like 7 people to catch her, in order to flip her. well off to service, gifts of mens sunday..
So I am having one of those I hate my job moments. You know those moments, when you plan all this stuff and it just does not work right. It would be one of those moments. I have extra adults coming to help to tonight, who i evidently don't need because i just recieved several phone calls stating they suddenly no longer could come....this stuff sucks... i love my job, but sometimes it sucks