church

So not to fret, I’m feeling much better this morning than yesterday morning.  I think I was just running downhill from a very stressful week.  I am looking forward to my hour talk with the counselor this afternoon.  I’m sort of scared to talk about it but I’d like to hear a professional’s viewpoint.  I’m also staying an extra hour to sit with one of the youth members while she talks to her.  Same one that was going through some counseling last fall.

So Mom and Heather are busy all weekend with the local Italian festival so they can’t watch the kids for our women’s conference.  I think I’m just going to take the kids on Friday night.  And S volunteered to keep them until Scott got up on Saturday morning.  A very interesting concept and we’ll see how that one goes…I am very grateful though, I think it will be very good.

This weekend was nice.  Friday night we stopped at the local ice cream shop with a few kids from the youth and then spent an hour or so with a blanket on our hammock.  Very relaxing.  Saturday I cleaned and went to the gym.  The four of us went to the cafeteria for a very nice dinner Saturday night.  Sunday was spent at church and in between gparent houses for Mother’s Day.  I got a hot stone massage from a local spa and I plan to use that very soon. 

This weekend is a women’s conference at church.  I’m actually going to talk to the speaker on Thursday at one of her open counseling sessions.  Still dealing with residuals from last year’s “thing” at work.  I expect this weekend to be really great.  But Scott is working and hopefully I can figure out childcare.  I simply don’t understand why they don’t arrange childcare at our church any better.

So yesterday we went to church but Emma was still sick so she co-taught my Sunday School class with me.  Seriously, she sat like a big girl in the folding chair beside me and did not move and only spoke like 3 sentences.  I think she was intimdated by the 8 9th graders but either way, she was a good girl. 

I ended up watching some more One Tree Hill episodes before choir practice/church.  I had to teach the youth bible study last night since our youth pastor was out of town still.  I think it actually went well.  Much better than the trivia we did a few weeks ago where several youth ended up leaving early from.  I’m really starting to like this teaching though.  I end up learning so much more than what I actually teach and it’s good for me.

So after church, I finished up Season 2 Disc 1 of One Tree Hill.  So far I like season 1 better than season 2 but I know it’s probably a little slow since it’s the beginning of the season.

Work is still somewhat slow this week.  And S wants to work on the youth group’s web site this afternoon.  Not sure if I’m looking forward to that or not.  I have no problems updating a web site but coming up with an original design is hard for me. 

On another note, I’ve been having a time with getting this week’s sermon converted to the podcast. Wednesday night’s live capture’s sound got messed up.  The second time I tried, the mpg wouldn’t convert to mp3 or m4p.    The third time I captured it, the sound dropped out half-way through.  I don’t know. So far, this thing has been a lot of work.  Trouble doesn’t mean that it’s a bad thing, just I wish it was not so much trouble.  I’m supposed to go to the church tomorrow to test out the volume levels so we can capture it live.  Which I thought we did that last week so gah.

The end of last week and the weekend seemed busy.  I worked over on Thursday and Friday and in the evening Scott and I were having, uh, issues. I don’t really want to go into them but they weren’t fun and I was not happy.  We have worked through our issues over the weekend and while it’s not a non-issue yet, we have made steps to make it better.

Friday night the girls stayed with MIL and Saturday we woke up just in time to get up and go to the town parade. I’m not sure if I wrote about it last year but I complained about the parade last year.  It was so ridiculously short–like 8 minutes long.  The band was in jeans and t-shirts and it was just pathetic.  My article was actually published in the paper.  So I sort of HAD to go to the parade.  Especially since Emma was actually IN the parade this year.  She rode with my SIL and niece in the rescue squad suburban.  She seemed to have a good time.  But the parade was SO long with 99 entries and lasting 1 hour and 10 minutes.  Yeah.  So I don’t know if anyone read my article last year but it I’d like to think it helped.  It wa actually overwhelmingly long.  Even Mrs. South Carolina showed up.  All the local bands, girl/boy scout groups, rescue squads, fire stations, and even lots of businesses.  It was really great.

 So Saturday night we went to Jaynee’s Christmas party.  We didn’t know if we would go to the last minute.  I didn’t want to ask MIL to keep them since they had had them the past 24 hours and my mom and sister were working on their work party that was Sunday night.  I was going to go solo but MIL heard Scott and I talking about it at Target and volunteered to keep them, so we took advantage of it.  We had a good time.  The food was great and everyone seemed really nice.  I ended up with my own gift from the exchange but the gifts were slim pickins and I was next to last with only Scott’s gift left under the tree and my mugs being the only gift I wanted to steal so I went for it.  Scott ended up with a folksy-metal flower wall hanging which everyone laughed at but we now have hanging in the kids play room. Not sure what that means really but we think it’s cute.

Sunday was church as usual and also Mom’s Christmas party.  That was lots of good food too.  We left the girls there for about 1 1/2 hr while we went to a youth leaders meeting with the seniors in our group.  We had A LOT of fun.  They are old enough to pretty much be adults.  They only have 6 months left of high school but they are young enough to really let go still have fun.  I hope we get to go on the trip they are going on in Jan/Feb for the “top 15” (they earn points by attending, bringing friends, etc).

 Last night we also caught up on a few Season 1 episodes from The Office that Jaynee let us borrow. I laughed.  A lot.  It’s a great tv show.  After 3 episodes in a row though it was a little much.  Only can handle so much of all that GREAT comedy he does lol.  I definitely plan to catch up on all the seasons and watch the current ones too. 

 So this week will be REALLY busy with work.  I have so much to do.  Friday is a HUGE implementation.  We’ve been working on this project for well, years.  Part of it was implemented back in September but we are basically having to redo that part to fix some issues and then do the second part also.  It’s going to be a long, arduous process this weekend.

Also this week is Scott’s work party tomorrow night.  I have no idea what I’m wearing but I’d REALLY like to buy something new.  We are also having a catillion with the youth group that is formal and I’d REALLY like to buy a new dress.  We’ll see though.  It seems like we are running out of time before Christmas.  Exactly 3 weeks left!  Unbelievable!!