The day began with a twinge in my head, one of those little twinges that threatens to build up over time into a great, big twingy kind of pain in the middle of the head that just won't stop until you find yourself lying in a dark room.
But there was no time for dark rooms. It was Sunday, and Sunday means worship, and Junior Church, and lots of loud, energetic children in need of spiritual guidance.
As is my custom, I arose early (woke up at 5:30, but didn't crawl out of bed til nearly 6). Put the cat out, cleaned the bathroom of cat stuff, fed cats, fixed coffee, read the two important portions of the newspaper (comics and Parade; all the rest is fluff). Went downstairs and put together my Order of Worship for Open Skies (which is the 2nd service version of Junior Worship). Looked over my lesson plans for the first service class, and the second service class.
The girls woke up around 8, so I fixed them some yummy oatmeal for breakfast. They are my assistants during set-up time, so it is vitally important that they receive proper nutrition.
Left the house promptly at 8:30. Arrived at the building promptly at 8:35 -- I thoroughly enjoy living this close to church! -- and started setting up. Got the upstairs room prepped in about half an hour while the girls prepped the downstairs room. Had enough time to chat with a few folks as they were coming in.
First service Sunday School for the 4 yrs-thru-4th grade starts promptly at 9:45 (although kids appear anywhere from 9:30 up to about and 10:00 am). We had several tables set up with activities varying from puzzles to coloring pages to dominoes. The kids played until 10, and then we started class by watching the 2nd part of 4th DVD in the "What's in the Bible" series from Phil Vischer. (We'd started part 1 last week.) Had an interesting discussion of why there were Judges in the Bible, and what they did.
After Sunday School, we took the kids up to Open Skies, which is the second service Junior Worship time. There was a guest worship leader in the main auditorium, so we took the kids in there for the first few songs, then went back to our classroom right before Offering (since we do our own version of that). Then Miss Kourtney did the lesson for the 7, 8 & 9 year olds while I took the 4, 5 & 6 year olds downstairs. (We keep those kids a-movin'!)
When our lesson was done, we took the little kids back up to Open Skies to be picked up by their parents. Then it was time to clean up, which involves putting away all the things we'd set up prior to the beginning of Sunday School. There was a great deal of stuff to put back in place, especially since we'd put away some things for Super Start on Saturday that still weren't were they were supposed to be for Monday. Took about an hour or so.
I didn't get home til nearly 2 pm, then it was time to grab a quick lunch before heading out again to install a replacement window in the old Toyota (long story, maybe later). Returned home around 5, which gave me just enough time to eat a quick supper before heading out again to take the boys to High School Youth Group, and to our "Five Love Languages of Teenagers" class. That was from 6 pm to 8:30 pm.
Then it was time for our weekly Family Meeting, where we discussed (1) all the things on the calendar for the week; and (2) the Love Languages for each of the family members. Everyone was reminded that the purpose of knowing our Love Languages is not only so that others know how to love us, but so that we know how to love others.
This seems to be an especially hard concept for teenagers.
After all that, it was time to set up the cat's room for the evening, make the coffee, do the usual night-time tooth-brushing and face-shaving, and head to bed.
So that tomorrow, we can start all over again.
Only tomorrow, maybe I won't have to do it with a headache all day, like I did today.
3 comments:
I would have a headache just thinking about a day as busy as that.
But why do you have to set up the cat's room?
Sounds like a great day! Although I would leave the cat clean-up to someone besides the guy with the allergies, if I were you. Says the girl who went through five months of chemo cleaning catboxes that she wasn't supposed to touch. Oh well.
To answer your question concerning the cat's room:
We put the cat in the bathroom every night so that he will use his litterbox. Previously, when given access to the garage, where there were TWO (count them, TWO) litterboxes, he decided to use the concrete floor. And I got very tired of cleaning up after him. When confined to the bathroom - with litterbox, bed and food provided - he uses the litterbox.
I will never understand this weirdo cat.
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