Last week was Vacation Bible School at our church.
To say we were busy would be a huge understatement.
We built an entire VBS program from the ground up (with advertising flyers, curriculum, handouts, craft and snack ideas, etc.), with the intent of doing a 'trial run' of it in our church to work out any kinks before marketing the entire thing as an inexpensive, self-explanatory package deal for small church use.
The whole process made demands of me that left me utterly spent at the end of each day, ready to fall into bed but needing to stay up late and rise early to get everything accomplished so that each evening's events could go off without a hitch.
I'm pleased to say that the Lord blessed, everything went smoothly and beautifully, and our efforts were greatly rewarded.
In the midst of all this, we somehow managed to wedge in viewings of some homes our realtor found for us to take a look at. We found a beautiful home and got all excited about it...only to learn it was already in escrow. Looking for houses is exhausting.
With all that was going on, our house fell into utter chaos.
I managed to keep up on the dishes, but the laundry fell woefully behind.
Our washing machine is on the blink again, in need of a repairman (which we couldn't be here to let in, seeing as they can never give you a definite 'window' of time they will be there).
My living room floor is currently covered with the tubs of stuff that we hauled back and forth each day, some of which can be packed up and reused another year, and then some of which I still need to work until the package deal is complete.
So, when I catch my breath again, make some headway on my house, get pictures from some of the others who took them for me, and catch up on my Google Reader, I'll be back. Probably for my birthday, and just in time for my one-year bloggoversary.
6 comments:
You certainly have been busy! Good luck on the house hunt. I know how stressfull that can be. It will be so exciting to be in a new house though:)
I must admit I'm relieved to hear that you were gone for some awesome reasons and not something ill-fated! I was beginning to worry (I know, I know... bad Joy!).
Take your time getting back with us! Sounds like you have a lot to swim through.
Great idea to use your hard work to benefit other churches who have to work on slim budgets! What a cool way to extend the blessing forward! I'm proud of you!
And, in one hour you will have your such-and-such-you-know-how-many-I-won't-tell-but-I-remember-it-so-well-birthday, so from somebody who knows your beginnings, and who has watched you grow into such a lovely person, truly, inside and out, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! I LOVE YOU!!
ugh. me. vbs. too. next. week. ugh.
Busy Busy lady! I love VBS, especially when you don't have to put it together! lol
We lucked out, er, I mean we unfortunately were gone this year for VBS. The first time ever we missed it. I thought it would be kind of nice, but now I find that I really, really missed it. Except I am tanned and relaxed. lol
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