A Strong Tongue…

I’m in the throws of organizing VBS follow-up… it sounded great until Friday of VBS.  I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty much done with Friday hits… but I know this is important, it’s just that I’m up at 7:00 am on a Saturday, stink.
Just wanted to share a funny story…  we were enjoying [...]

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On a Lighter Note…

I actually walked to excersize tonight… I need to continue this.  Schwan’s comes in the morning bringing more blessed ice cream… I’m really into ice cream right now. 
I am on a mission to pump enough milk to cover while I’m with Stephen at camp… four days really doesn’t seem long until I started doing the [...]

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Not Alone…

I’m up in my favorite time of night and it’s raining outside big time… how much better could it get? My entries over the past couple weeks have been weak to say the least… On one hand, we’ve been extremely busy with VBS which could justify it… on the other hand, we’ve been extremely busy [...]

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Mark it Down!!!

Just an FYI…  For those of you that know me, I am a procrastinator… MAJORLY!  For those that don’t, you would say I’m an organized person that has it together.  I guess I’m a little of both (Okay, not that i have it together but I can organize anything… once!  I can’t stay organized to [...]

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Three Weeks Ago…

Here’s the water park that’s near Don & Linda’s house.  It’s really neat, it’s a community park that has lots of built in sprinklers all around.  The kids had a blast…

   
(Notice the kid’s clothes:  Charlie’s wearing shorts and Maddie’s wearing last year’s swim suit… it was an impromptu visit and this was what we [...]

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You Know What Stinks…

I mentioned in my previous post that I videotaped Maddie & Charlie in the VBS musical so that we could share their performances with grandparents who weren’t able to be here and it triggered in my mind another few thoughts that didn’t fit with that post so here’s what I think stinks…
I think it stinks [...]

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The Final Hallelujah!

VBS is over… and it was a success!  What makes VBS a success?!?  Here’s what I think:
1.  We had record attendance.  We over up about 7% on average per day.  Amazing!!!  And most of them were community kids…
2.  We had 39 decisions made during our Thursday presentation of the A, B, Cs.  These include kids [...]

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One More Thing…

I was sitting in our music time today (it’s all 1st-6th graders combined in the sanctuary practicing for the musical that’s performed on Family Night – THursday night)  anyways, I was sitting there and two things struck me.  #1 – This year one of my goals for VBS was to try to make it ‘cooler’ [...]

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I So Should…

I so should be in bed right now but I was typing out names, addresses, etc. off VBS registration cards so that I can start mapping out follow up visits when I got sucked into blurking…  If I blurked on your site tonight and you’re offended, I’m sorry. 
After reading BigMama’s blog I’m wishing I had [...]

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Day One…

Day one is down on the VBS count!  It went well.  My puppies are barking but it really did go well.  We are up 11% in attendance from last year’s first day.  The goal I gave our teachers is 20%.  I first said 10% but then I thought about it and realized that probably wasn’t [...]

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