It's barely still Monday, let along Morning. My apologies.
No school today. Kids had School Improvement Day. So Sal and the kids were at home. I love having them here, but I am a little selfish and miss my time alone like most Mondays. My folks are up in Omaha for the weekend so I told Sal my plan. I snuck out of the house; went to Casey's and got a Ruby Red Grapefruit drink and the paper; then broke into mom and dad's and did the Sudoku while watching SportsCenter. Ahhhhhh. Then everything was right in the world.
Was able to mow the yard, trim the bushes, spray some weeds and finish the trim on the garage. With that, the paint on the garage is officially done. PTL! Now I can get to work inside on a work bench. After that will be the all important running cable TV into it. I know...Sal doubts I will be "working" so much in the garage that I'll need TV, but it's good to have dreams.
Church has been crazy busy. Our interim pastor's time at our church came to a close at the end of October. JL and I have been working with the Joyce (worship coordinator) on our church participating in Advent Conspiracy for the Christmas Season. Youth group had a busy Saturday- we raked leaves throughout the community on Saturday morning and then ran the concession stand for the high school playoff football game in the evening. I love doing concession stand. Maybe even more than watching football. You get to talk to all kinds of people. Cassidy calls it "Creeping for Jesus". I've been called worse. :)
Sunday night I hosted a parent seminar called "Sex, Porn and Intimacy: talking to our kids about Godly relationships." I don't think we talk about intimacy enough in the Church and yet it seems we are all thinking about it...all the time. God created sex and He created it good. Real good. I think that's the part the scares us as parents sometimes- what if our kids find out? They'll start and never stop. The approach I take is a little more direct. For youth I call the seminar "God didn't create you to be a virgin". Well, He didn't, did He? We got the tools, the desire and the command to "be fruitful and multiply". As Driscoll would say, the question isn't, "Where do we draw the line (how far can I go)?" The question is, "Is it the right time (what does God say I should be doing)?" What I have found is that parents need the freedom to talk about these subjects. They love talking about them and the parents teach themselves more than I give them any infinite wisdom. We had a great time last night. I'm going to keep doing them.
Last thing. I loved today, but I hate this time of year. It was 76 and beautiful. Soon I won't be able to wear shorts and flip flops anymore. That's a sad, sad day. Tomorrow is to be the same and then the cold comes. Probably for good. On that day I put my flip flops away, I will dream of a time when I will take them out again and enjoy the humidity and 104 temperature. I love you sun!
