Christian Momma

My days of being a mother of 2 are coming to an end. Michael and Noah will be back tomorrow. And I have missed them!

I have enjoyed my time with Daniel and Andrew. They haven’t messed my house up too much…not nearly as much as all 4 of them do when they are together! My laundry is caught up…for the moment, because you know when someone comes back from being away, they bring dirty laundry with them.

I didn’t realize how much Michael and Noah do around here when it comes to Daniel and Andrew. I’m not used to having to stop what I’m doing 20 times a day to fill up a cup, get Daniel and Andrew out of something they shouldn’t be in, etc. Michael and Noah do their fair share of helping out!

And what is it with boys and balls? Why is it every 20 minutes I have to tell them NOT to throw a ball in the house? Or stop running? Or stop jumping on the couch? I feel like I say that a billion times a day!

Ok, I just spilled my coffee down the front of me, I guess it’s time for me to get into the shower now!

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

It’s raining hard outside (not now, just setting the stage)…Daniel & Andrew start telling me…

“Mom, there’s turtles outside!”

I get this confused look on my face and say, “No, there aren’t any turtles outside.”

Andrew goes back to playing, believing mommy that there aren’t any turtles outside.  Daniel keeps looking out the window.  The news jumps into the programming to talk about the Thunderstorm warnings and Tornado watches.  Daniel turns and watches the news, then looks back outside.

He then turns to me and with the most serious look on his face, says, “Mom, there’s turtles outside!”

It clicks…I know what he’s talking about.  I looked at Daniel and said, “No, honey, there aren’t any tornados outside…just rain.”

In his head  Turtles = Tornados

Glad I figured that out…I’d hate to see all those turtles running around when it’s raining outside!

Michael & Noah have been staying at my sister’s house this whole week so they can go to her church’s VBS. I’m sure they are having a great time…who wouldn’t?

My sister lives on a farm, they get to ride the 4 wheeler, go outside and play (we live in a rental…real close to a major interstate, so going outside requires someone to watch them carefully like a hawk) in a wide open area. My parents live near by and I know they are going to their house and playing at the park that just so happens to be right next door. Life is good on a farm!

So, Tuesday night, my sister calls and says Michael broke…and she pauses! My heart sank! I thought for sure I would have to make a run 1 1/2 hours North to take my son to the hospital! No, Michael broke his glasses…she was wanting to know where I got his eyes checked to see if she could go to one near her house or run to WalMart to get some cheap frames.

Although I’m upset that he broke his glasses, I know that it wasn’t on purpose, but I was so thankful it wasn’t a bone! We are in need of both Michael & Noah to go and get their eyes checked this summer before school starts, so my sister is just going to get him some cheap frames to last through the summer!

We started a new Bible Study in our Monday night Bible Study. We are doing Beth Moore‘s Get Out Of That Pit.   We usually have a group on Monday nights of 6-9 women…last night we had 20!

I’m excited to be getting into another Beth Moore study…the last one we did (Jesus, The One and Only) , I learned a lot!

I sure do miss watching this cartoon! I used to enjoy watching it every day! I was so excited to see so many of the videos on You Tube! I’m going to have to search to see if they still run this on Nicktoons or somewhere!

I’m a member a numerous survey companies and take surveys online. Every time my husband sees me taking one, he always says “Would you like to take a Survey?” That would be from an Animaniac Cartoon…the sad reality is that Kevin and I used to watch that cartoon all the time…pre-children!  Here’s the cartoon if you are interested…

I do have a point here…

I just finished taking a survey, and was surprised at the content…it was about blogs! How cool is that?

Last night was our VBS Finale’! It went GREAT! We had those big blow up jumpy things (yeah…I don’t know what they are called), a tent for dinner, and a cotton candy machine!

I didn’t get a chance to eat…I had so much stuff I had to do…so much running from inside and out! When I got inside, they were having trouble with the cotton candy machine and since I was the only sucker one to learn how to run it, I had to go over and actually work the machine! I had cotton candy EVERYWHERE! I went home singing…I’m hot, sticky, sweet, from my head to my feet

Anyway, the children LOVED everything, I only heard good comments from parents and kids were asking where they could go for the next Power Lab!!

My staff…what can I say about a wonderful group of men and women who pour their whole heart and soul into doing God’s work. They were great, I couldn’t have run the week without them!

88 Children in 1 week went through our VBS. Let me just say, if your church is doing Group’s Power Lab, it will be a success! The children were absolutely loving it! I have heard a number of children talking about what other church in the area was doing Power Lab and which church they were going to next!

Last night was the Salvation message. I haven’t heard if any child was saved, however, I know the seed was planted. All the children knew the answers to the questions that our “characters” were asking them! They are getting it!!

I have been truly blessed by the volunteers and helpers! I couldn’t have done this without their help! Not to mention the Children’s Ministry Director…even if she couldn’t make it to Power Lab for more than 30 minutes a couple nights, it was great to have her support over the phone and throughout the process of getting things together!

Tonight is our last night…it’s Family night, so my job is very simple. We will have the normal opening and then have our “closer” come up and do an experiment (or 2) and then send the children outside for food and games. Our church had lined up those big blow-up bouncy things! The kids are going to love it!!

15 more children!! We had 83 children Tuesday night! Not to mention we had quite a few volunteers missing because Tuesday is church softball night and swim meet night! Talk about crazy!!

Things are still going smoothly…I’m so impressed at how my volunteers are not only excited, but getting into character! It’s really great to see! I have only heard wonderful things from the children and from their parents.

Even though I’m thoroughly exhausted, I’m having a great time…don’t tell the Children’s Ministry director, or I might have to do this again! LOL

Last night was so much easier than the 1st night. Things went smoothly…registration didn’t take much time, children knew what to expect, their anticipation was up. I didn’t need to run around as often as I did the 1st night.

We had 68 children last night…I was glad to see it grow!

I feel like there was a life changing moment that happened last night at the registration table.

I just happened to walk up to the registration table to give them more pens. A family with 2 young boys came up to the table to register. Let me remind you that we are running an Elementary only VBS. These 2 young boys were 3 and 5. As they turned away from the table to go back to their car, I had one of the registration people turn to me and ask if it was possible to bring in 2 preschoolers. I said Absolutely! We have a few crew leaders without a crew at the moment. The family was called back to the table, I looked at the mom (who was visibly upset) and said, “We’ll make room for them”. She thanked me over and over. She had told me that her boys were looking forward to this VBS for some time!

After they got the boys settled into the crews we chose for them, I went and pulled the registration papers to see if they had been to our church before. No church was listed on their papers.

I’m so glad we didn’t turn them away…who knows what type of seed had been planted into that family and how the adjustment for their children will affect them.

I talked to our pastor that night and informed him that I went ahead and put the 2 preschoolers in the VBS. He told me…”You saw a need and you filled it.” I just explained to him that I put myself into the mother’s shoes…I would have been heartbroken and bitter had my children been turned away from VBS!!