This will be an interesting couple of days...

As some of you know, I live with a family here in Arkansas. When I took this position at FCB I was already friends with the youth pastor. We have known each other since 1997 and he is the reason that they even considered me for this job. He offered to let me live with him, his wife and their 4 kids when I got here...so I moved in.

It is really a lot easier to live with them than people seem to think it would be. I have my own room, my door locks if I want it to and if I close the door I am normally left alone. The kids are great and James and his wife are old friends. It has been a pretty smooth transition so far.

Now the reason the next few days will be interesting is a combination of things. One thing is that I now officially have a girlfriend (that hasn't happened in a while) and James is out of town for the next three days. Now those may be two unrelated items but the fact that they happened at the same time makes it interesting around the house. I get to help with the kids at home a bit more than normal, obviously they still have their mother at home but I am going to do my best to pick up some of the slack while James is away and at the same time I am trying to do the things that a boyfriend is supposed to do.

Last night Ashley and I talked on the phone for a while but not until the kids were already in bed. I am going to take her out to dinner on Friday night and then she is going to come to my softball game...but we may try to stop by the house to make sure the kids are all in bed between dinner and game.

Also the office is very different without James here. He is the guy that a lot of people rely on to help get things done around here. I am just getting used to my job so I use him a lot for ideas, for help with projects...all kinds of stuff.

So he gets back Saturday night...let's see how it goes until then.

Trying to get back into the swing of things...

I was out of "the office" for two full weeks. I had youth camp, then I went to Denver the next day to help train the man who replaced me from my last job and then a quick stop in Washington for my cousins wedding. After all that I am back here in my office and apparently it was a pretty eventful time. I missed a lot of things that happened both in and out of the office that were interesting.

Now my goal is to get back into the mode I was in before I left! I need to plan events and come up with creative ways to help FCB grow and minister to as many people as possible. I haven't been sleeping very well and that isn't helping because when I am tired I am not able to organize my thoughts the way I normally would.

It is all ok, there are good things in store. I just have to make sure that I stay focused on the things that matter and let the other things go.