What a Sunday!
What a whirlwind Sunday turned into.
We all had a lovely morning hanging out together. Buds and I got in a workout before church. It’s one of the reasons we love that our church service doesn’t begin until 11 a.m. It makes for a relaxed way to ease into your Sunday.
Because once we got to church, the day didn’t stop.
It was one of the infrequent Sundays where Buds and I got to be in the sanctuary to hear the homily together. Normally one or both of us are teaching Religious Exploration, so this was a delight.
On top of that, one of our favorite guest speakers was presenting:
January 28, 2018 – Guest Speaker, Amy-Jill Levine, Ph.D. – A reflection on “The Parable of the Dishonest Steward” (Luke 16.1-9): The right thing for the wrong reasons? The wrong thing for the Right Reasons? How do we find a moral center?
A.J. presented her message as a talk-back session so there was lots of lively interaction, which our congregation loves. The nugget of the message was talking about how knotty a parable this one is, and what the heck was Jesus meaning?! There were also questions about how our morality is tied up with our perception of how much a person has. (Is it worse to steal from a rich person or a poor person? Should one truly be “better” than the other?)
That led to great discussion for Buds and me, but the discussion had to wait until later.
After church I had a Board Meeting and Monkey had agreed to provide childcare. I only got a picture of her with one of the children, but at one point she was entertaining six kids on the playground outside. She had brilliantly convinced them all to sit on a big swing together so she could keep them corralled.
After she was done she told me, “I’ll gladly babysit again, but I’m exhausted.”
While Monkey and I were taking care of business at church, Buds and the littles went to cousins’ house for crepes. It sounded like they had a delicious time there.
THEN, we met up at Aldi’s to get our family grocery shopping done. We love that little store, and the family was excited to tell me when we walked in that there was a queen-sized mattress for sale. Buds and I love our Aldi’s mattress, so Monkey got a new mattress, too. Luckily we had driven two cars to church so we had room for all the people, all the food, and the new mattress.
After we got home, Buds had a brilliant idea.
“Guys, remember how in the big yellow house and the Reston house we used to have the two mattresses side-by-side? Let’s do that for Family Book Club!”
Yes, we still had Family Book Club left for Sunday afternoon.
So while I grabbed some lunch, the rest of the crew got the new mattress all unpacked in our bedroom.
I’ll write about Family Book Club in a separate post, but to wrap things up here I searched up a picture of our old double mattress set up from the Reston house:
And seeing Buster sleeping like a zombie led me to another favorite sleeping picture:
I love old family photos.
