The Progeny
The Humdinger Weekend
We will probably need several more days to recover.
Starting with Friday afternoon, we spent three consecutive days, at least 7 hours each day, at the church. To say it was a tough weekend for mothers with young children would be an understatement.
A pastor and his family, hailing from southwestern Kansas, came to visit our church. The intention being for both parties to see whether a "merger" would be advisable.
Our church has been without a pastor for...a while. In the meantime, several of the men have been taking turns preaching and teaching Sunday School. And a seminary professor from Dubuque has been over to preach, fairly regularly. There are benefits and disadvantages with this set-up, but we've managed to "get by."
It's a small church. There are...limitations.
But anyway, it was a jam-packed weekend, aimed to make the most of the time the Harmer family (pastor, wife and four adult children) could spend here.
Friday was a pizza-n-greet, followed by Lord's Table/prayer meeting and then outside games.
Saturday started before lunch with more games, a picnic style meal, and then a combined meeting where Mr. Harmer gave a presentation of his ministry and...let's see, did the men go off by themselves? It's hard to remember. At least it all broke up at the reasonable hour of 5, so they could eat with their host families (they were parceled amongst three homes); the rest of us crashed and prepared for the following day.
Sunday was the usual (plus, our family had special music), Mr. Harmer preaching and a potluck afterward. This was followed by more meetings: first altogether (with some repeat for the families that hadn't been there on Saturday) then the men breaking off for a more extensive question and answer period. The ladies also met together where we heard in detail from Mrs. Harmer and her daughters. I'm afraid they put up with a lot of questions! And most graciously, too.
We got home at 5:30 on Sunday evening, leaving little time to recoup for a new week. But some is better than none, as they say.
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As for today....it didn't start off that hot. Three days of sitting, no exercise, and not enough rest don't make you feel very chipper. And despite only having half a math lesson, both boys managed to get totally frustrated, as did I. We worked our way through one or two things...bleah.
Presently, I am com-PLETE-ly bummed to realize we cannot finish school until sometime after Vacation Bible School and El Biggo Hoyto Reuniono, third week of June (which in itself will require several days of recovery. Reunions, camping, vacations in general are geared for the men to relax).
But in the meantime, new tactics. Tomorrow I'm going for an earlier start...we have got to get through more school subjects.
That's the plan, anyway.
And somewhere down the road I hope to reach a place where there isn't a near constant need for recuperative measures.
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Starting with Friday afternoon, we spent three consecutive days, at least 7 hours each day, at the church. To say it was a tough weekend for mothers with young children would be an understatement.
A pastor and his family, hailing from southwestern Kansas, came to visit our church. The intention being for both parties to see whether a "merger" would be advisable.
Our church has been without a pastor for...a while. In the meantime, several of the men have been taking turns preaching and teaching Sunday School. And a seminary professor from Dubuque has been over to preach, fairly regularly. There are benefits and disadvantages with this set-up, but we've managed to "get by."
It's a small church. There are...limitations.
But anyway, it was a jam-packed weekend, aimed to make the most of the time the Harmer family (pastor, wife and four adult children) could spend here.
Friday was a pizza-n-greet, followed by Lord's Table/prayer meeting and then outside games.
Saturday started before lunch with more games, a picnic style meal, and then a combined meeting where Mr. Harmer gave a presentation of his ministry and...let's see, did the men go off by themselves? It's hard to remember. At least it all broke up at the reasonable hour of 5, so they could eat with their host families (they were parceled amongst three homes); the rest of us crashed and prepared for the following day.
Sunday was the usual (plus, our family had special music), Mr. Harmer preaching and a potluck afterward. This was followed by more meetings: first altogether (with some repeat for the families that hadn't been there on Saturday) then the men breaking off for a more extensive question and answer period. The ladies also met together where we heard in detail from Mrs. Harmer and her daughters. I'm afraid they put up with a lot of questions! And most graciously, too.
We got home at 5:30 on Sunday evening, leaving little time to recoup for a new week. But some is better than none, as they say.
________________
As for today....it didn't start off that hot. Three days of sitting, no exercise, and not enough rest don't make you feel very chipper. And despite only having half a math lesson, both boys managed to get totally frustrated, as did I. We worked our way through one or two things...bleah.
Presently, I am com-PLETE-ly bummed to realize we cannot finish school until sometime after Vacation Bible School and El Biggo Hoyto Reuniono, third week of June (which in itself will require several days of recovery. Reunions, camping, vacations in general are geared for the men to relax).
But in the meantime, new tactics. Tomorrow I'm going for an earlier start...we have got to get through more school subjects.
That's the plan, anyway.
And somewhere down the road I hope to reach a place where there isn't a near constant need for recuperative measures.
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