My husband is very funny. When he teaches he is clever and can drive a strong point home with great humor. He really is gifted. So, whenever I get introduced as …”This is our Youth Pastor Jeff Maguire’s wife, Amanda”, it is 99.9% usually followed with this comment, “Oh, Jeff Maguire’s wife! Your husband is so funny! You must laugh ALL the time!”
I 100% of the time smile and nod and say, “Yes, he is so great.” But in my head, 99.9% of the time I am thinking, “Are you nuts? Of course we don’t just laugh ALL the time. You’re ridiculous!”
Oh, ha ha ha, it’s 5am and you have to go to church early…he he he.
Whew, he he, a student backed into our minivan in the church parking lot, ha ha!
Oh, goodness, pizza again! …good one!
Come on people!
(We do often get a good laugh out of his paycheck).
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I’m Amanda Maguire and I have been “Married to a Youth Pastor” for almost 12 years now. We have 3 kids, Dylan (8) and Molly (6) and Scotty (3). I worked in full-time youth ministry for 4 years, got married and got a “real job”, allowing me to continue to be a volunteer in youth ministry for another 4 years. We started having kids and now I’m just married to the Youth Pastor. I have great friends and a fun life! I have a passion and a calling for wives just like me, married to a Youth Pastor.
I love to write.
I love to do creative activities.
I love to run.
I love to shop.
I love to dine out.
And I would love time to do any of these things more.
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This was classic!
Boy can I relate to that one. Most people find my husband funny, while my kids and I shake our heads. And what they consider “non-stop fun in the house” we consider him being a pest.
Oh my goodness! This happens to me pretty much every week. I don’t know about anyone else, but my husband thinks he is the funniest thing alive. If I was a middle school boy, I might agree. However, I don’t find bodily functions and destroying things terribly funny.
Hey Amanda! Thanks for starting this blog! I was in some of the sessions you and your husband spoke in at the NYMC in Ohio.
My husband is a youth minister as well. He’s awesome and yes our house is crazy and ministry is nuts, but it is so exciting to be in it together!
Ha, Ha! Love this site, so true, all of it!
Thank you for starting this blog! This is great, and I have been wanting to do something like this for FOREVER. I started a myspace group, but it never took off.
I get stuff like this about my hubby all the time. I’m with Crystal… if I was a middle school boy I might think “Yer mom” after every sentence was hysterical
I’m with you on the pizza thing. We served pizza and Dr. Pepper at our wedding as a (humorous) tribute to my husband’s career in youth ministry.
AMEN! I love this site and boy can I relate. My husband suggested I check this out. Your witty blog topics are so true. My husband’s a youth minister and I am a children’s minister at the same church so we know what it is like to be living La Vida Loca along with our 6month old.
My favorite post so far on your new blog!
Go AMANDA!
JG
brilliant!!! =)
I am a first time reader/ commenter AND a youth pastor’s wife and i literally LAUGHED. OUT. LOUD reading this (the kind of laugh where your neighbors wonder what the heck is going on at THAT house). Yes, it’s just a non-stop joy ride this ministry roller coaster.
and amen about the paycheck.
I was a youth minister for 3 years, had to leave the church in order to save my sanity and my marriage, didnt leave ministry though [long story], I love this blog, God Bless you
Umm yea…bodily functions are not so hilarious and the constant corny jokes don’t always draw up the laughter either. Thanks for this blog. It helps to know there are others out there who can relate.
SO great Amanda! What an awesome thing to connect us all together! We’ve recently started a youth pastors wives gathering in our town…it’s so nice to just “get” each other and know that I’m normal! Thanks for being so REAL in Ohio!
That’s so true! Everyone thinks my husband is so hilarious and wonder how I don’t die of laughter. But then I am just honest with them and say, “ya know, it’s so weird….he’s not at all like this at home!” They are simply shocked!
wow, yah, I can relate to this! More than just what they say after the introduction, but rather the introduction itself is what gets me. I’m known as “the Youth Pastor’s Wife”. No one has taken the chance to get to know me as myself. It’s sad really. Not sure how to get past my “title”