I'm sure that Brothers Estep and Mullins and the rest of you Christmas freaks out there will be pleased to hear that I gave in. Just the tiniest little bit, mind you, but knowing James I would guess that this minute compromise will soon take on a snowball affect. Before you all start shouting "HYPOCRITE!," let me explain.
This coming Monday-Wednesday, James will be in Lubbock for training for his new job. He'll have Thanksgiving weekend off, then begins full time at Mardel (anybody know what that is?) down in Odessa the following Tuesday. He'll be working a full time job now (probably more than full time throughout the holidays) along with his Overseer responsibilities until he's able to go back into "full time" church work. (Please help us pray about that!) My point is this: between the church work, a full time job, and the 40 mile drive to Odessa and back each day, James is going to have much less leisure time this holiday season. As we are all aware, James is somewhat fond of Christmas. *clearing throat & rolling eyes* Sooooo... being the kind, thoughtful wife that I am, I told him that I was going out to the shed to find the box of Christmas music and movies (if I didn't pack them away, they would be airing nightly throughout the year) so he could watch the Christmas movie of his choice. I wish you could have seen his response. It was as surprised and joyous--almost downright giddy--as any Choleric could possibly muster. Rather cute, really. ;-) We put the kids to bed, James built a nice, cozy fire (it is truly cold here tonight! Wa-Hoo!), and watched Holiday Inn. I'm ashamed, but honest enough to admit that I enjoyed it. Eight days early. Whatever you do, don't tell my kids--they'll be begging for Rudolph and Frosty day in and day out if they know that Mom watched a Christmas show before Thanksgiving! It'll just be our little secret. HA! A secret -- in Blogland!!! That's a good one.
Other and more important news includes a three day Revival in Andrews this past weekend! Keven Lewis and family came from Colorado and we were so blessed to have them! The Revivial was good and already has me looking forward to the next one. (Hear that, Brother Sam?!) And we sooooo enjoyed having Keven & Michele and the kids here. They stayed with Sam & Tammy, naturally, but we were able to have them over for dinner a few times and spend some time with them. I loved it!!! My kids had a BLAST hanging out with their crew (Sam told me, "I found a friend in Malachi!" -- He's crazy about him!) and it was just so great to be able to fellowship with all of them. I love them so much! Here are a few pictures.
This coming Monday-Wednesday, James will be in Lubbock for training for his new job. He'll have Thanksgiving weekend off, then begins full time at Mardel (anybody know what that is?) down in Odessa the following Tuesday. He'll be working a full time job now (probably more than full time throughout the holidays) along with his Overseer responsibilities until he's able to go back into "full time" church work. (Please help us pray about that!) My point is this: between the church work, a full time job, and the 40 mile drive to Odessa and back each day, James is going to have much less leisure time this holiday season. As we are all aware, James is somewhat fond of Christmas. *clearing throat & rolling eyes* Sooooo... being the kind, thoughtful wife that I am, I told him that I was going out to the shed to find the box of Christmas music and movies (if I didn't pack them away, they would be airing nightly throughout the year) so he could watch the Christmas movie of his choice. I wish you could have seen his response. It was as surprised and joyous--almost downright giddy--as any Choleric could possibly muster. Rather cute, really. ;-) We put the kids to bed, James built a nice, cozy fire (it is truly cold here tonight! Wa-Hoo!), and watched Holiday Inn. I'm ashamed, but honest enough to admit that I enjoyed it. Eight days early. Whatever you do, don't tell my kids--they'll be begging for Rudolph and Frosty day in and day out if they know that Mom watched a Christmas show before Thanksgiving! It'll just be our little secret. HA! A secret -- in Blogland!!! That's a good one.
Other and more important news includes a three day Revival in Andrews this past weekend! Keven Lewis and family came from Colorado and we were so blessed to have them! The Revivial was good and already has me looking forward to the next one. (Hear that, Brother Sam?!) And we sooooo enjoyed having Keven & Michele and the kids here. They stayed with Sam & Tammy, naturally, but we were able to have them over for dinner a few times and spend some time with them. I loved it!!! My kids had a BLAST hanging out with their crew (Sam told me, "I found a friend in Malachi!" -- He's crazy about him!) and it was just so great to be able to fellowship with all of them. I love them so much! Here are a few pictures.
Brother Keven, preparing for the evening service. *ahem*
My Sunday School class, minus Sam. (He's not much of a "large crowd" person and wasn't about to be included in the picture.)The Lewises (is that right?!) stayed through Sunday morning service and had lunch with us--a big delicious one, complete with homemade hot rolls and pumpkin pie--then drove home Sunday afternoon.
That night we had a special service for Ellis and Elizabeth Poole, the old couple who got baptized last week. They wanted to renew their wedding vows, so we had a special little ceremony for them concluding with (insert drum roll, please) administering the Church covenant!!! Isn't that just sooooo exciting?! The Church of God in Andrews, Texas has just grown by 20%! :-) God is sooooo good to us and we are just so thrilled. And so are they! Brother Ellis is so excited to be back in the Church again after all these years. (He was a member years ago, back in A.J. Tomlinson days. Remember, he's 94 years old!)
Here he is, joining God's Church!It was quite an exciting night. We had a nice little party for them afterwards, complete with a mini-wedding cake and a shattered punch bowl. No worries, though. We were able to salvage most of the punch and, to my knowlege, nobody ended up with a shard of glass stuck in their throat, so I'd say the whole evening was a tremendous success.
I know that several interesting or entertaining things have happened in the past few days, but I have forgotten them all. I will, however, post a picture of the fantastic card my littlest cowboy received from his Auntie Em a week or two ago...
Is that not the cutest card in the world?! For a cowboy, that is. I love it!!! Great job, Em. ;-)
Okay, that's it for tonight. While I'm thinking of it, thanks for the call the other day, Lyndi--you're the good one! It was great to talk to you. As for the rest of you out there, the least you could do is blog. ;-)
G'night,
~Bec~
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