We've all heard it, we've all said it - Stop and smell the roses...just don't stay there all day! I started a great group at church tonight - and at the risk of sounding "too religious" I'm going to blog about it anyway!
I enjoy going to church. It's a choice I make now, instead of being forced every time the doors are open because the preacher is your dad! Some people are turned off for life, and I was for a few years. Thankfully my darling hubby likes it when we're in his "style" and we enjoy it.
Yep, we're dragging the kids! Funny enough, we don't have to drag them. The programs are interesting enough that they look forward to it as well. I'm happy about this. Every mom wants a family thing, and this is mine.
We're all in Scouting of some kind, but now that the boys are "of age" for Troop level, Grace can't tag along anymore, so thankfully she moved up into a more adventurous level this year as well, so her activities will be more in depth - it's still separate. Her dad has offered to take part with her and I help a little here and there with the boys, but it's not ALL of us-same place same time. At church, the kids have classes for their ages, but sometimes they opt to join us in the adult service because the preacher's funny and tells great stories.
Say what you please, I count this as a biggie for my family. We certainly haven't "arrived" to any special level - but we at least are showing some potential to treat one another a bit better than now. I do not like the sarcasm level in my house. They get enough of that at school. We all need a shove in the love direction...and most of the time it's easier to learn from someone to whom you are not related - ironic, but very true.
So, I'm taking a moment to be glad that for this moment, my family is in one building all heading in the same direction for a minimum of an hour a week. I can live with that for now. I spend some extra time enjoying a bible study, but you grow a family like you eat an elephant - one bite at a time =D
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Great post. Sounds like a wonderful church. Are you still going to Oasis? We need to find one like that.
We're at Real Life in Clermont. We moved from Oasis - not exactly on purpose - I took a break from the Praise team because of my dumb head and I have a hard time sitting still and feeling guilty I wasn't participating.... so Leif said he wanted to check out Real Life - we aren't so stressed out about church because my activities are on other days and the kids all like it - 9:30 service is great because you get home before everybody is starving for lunch! MAJOR perk! It's a big place, but well organized. Very cool and non-creepy, non-stuck up.
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