So I’m working on my last half of a nerve, but luckily Jeff is coming home today!! I can barely remember what we were fighting about before he left (except that it is the post right before this). I’m just so glad to see him. His bus was suppose to come in around 4pm, the kids and I had a great plan to meet him at the church and take him to dinner for a welcome home surprise! But they were late leaving camp and won’t be in til 7pm, so we changed up our plans and will bring dinner to church and play til dad rolls in…good plan. Well, the traffic is bad it will be after 8pm. Okay, okay we will have our dinner and just play til he comes in and then take him home and go to bed. No problem. AND the bus breaks down so it will be well after 11pm.(uughh) New plan, on my own for dinner, baths, bedtime again and, “Welcome home dad! We are all asleep!”
Awesome!
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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.
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I love to dine out.
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ahhh yes, the joys of being flexible in ministry. And, if he’s like my husband there’s nothing he’d rather be doing more than being with you guys. Hey- a little quality time without your own kids in the midst when he gets home:) Could be good:)
Praying for you!
Funny how life seems to happen when I’ve made other plans
This is funny, only because it is now the day after you wrote this. I assume that he is home by now.
Training yourself to have zero expectations for the day of your husband’s return is next to impossible.
A few years ago I was waiting at the church for my husband to return when one of the other pastors called my cell phone. The conversation started with, “He is ok, but . . . ” My husband had been in a car wreck. The follow up for that one involved daily trips to the eye doctor for about two weeks.
I truly hope that you guys will have a restfull week of family time. Believe it or not, school has started here. This weekend is the fall retreat. Reading your last two posts reminds me that I prefer the fall routine to the summer insanity. Thanks for sharing with us. I hope that you have at least one night of uninterupted sleep this week.
Yes yes plans are made to be broken in our world. The awesome thing is when it is all said and done God is in control and it all unfolds the way he wants. Well that is what we are suppose to think….right… Oh well life on the battle field. Hope all is well. Been praying for you and will continue to.
God Bless you each day!!!
Oh how I laugh right now, because I just received a call from my husband with the story that his intern turned into a semi with kids in the car…everyone is fine, and it was slow moving, but they’ll be home late. PTL everyone is fine, but just late.
We’ll see what becomes of this one, but as far as expectations, I seem to set them for about 4 hours after the time he tells me and then am pleasantly surprised if he arrives early.
I know how this goes!
I often try to plan a special surprise when Tim comes home, but I’ve learned (for the most part)to have a plan B.
Still, plan B doesn’t stop me from being disappointed at times.
I hope you were able to get some quality time with your hubby by now!
Hey this is not on topic, but I have a question maybe somebody has some insight. Have any of you ever had faimly in the church that you were at? Were okay that’s not really the question I am sure most of you have at some time or another. Have you ever had family tell storys about you and your husbands that was not really true and did not paint a good picture of you? I feel I can be honest here. My mom lives with us and I truly am beganing to think she is crazy. We are building an addition on to our house for her. Due to some trouble with contractors we ran out of the money she had for it. Now we are trying to come up with it ourselves, but it is slow going. She makes very little money, like not even enough to pay her bills. You all know yp’s don’t make much so most everything is up to me and I can only work so many hours.
To explan here we moved her into our finished bedroom and she has the run of our down stairs. We are in a upstairs room that is not finished because we were remodleing when she moved in. So all most all bills paid finished down stairs and most of the time we are not home so the run of our house is hers. She has been telling people in our church she lives in a small room cramped room and that we have the supplies to finish hers but just won’t take the time. This is to the point that one church member took it on thier own to send out a email
to half a dozen other members saying this was serious and they need to pull to gather and come over for a day and finish it because we wouldn’t and she needed out of that little room. We in turn had to send one to everyone saying we did not have the needed supplies and one day was not near enough to finish it. We were as nice as we could be. Now I feel there are some in church thinking we are doing her wrong basIed on what she has said. It is a big mess. I don’t know what to say to them. Most of all to her. She has done nothing but put our efforts down. This is to the point of me wanting to tell her pack and make it on your own. There is much more bad history between her and I then I will go into. The point to all this my husband has even gotten upset with her because of her damaging his wittness. I don’t know what to say or do to any of them. Help!!!!! Any got advice?????
Hey this is not on topic, but I have a question maybe somebody has some insight. Have any of you ever had faimly in the church that you were at? Were okay that’s not really the question I am sure most of you have at some time or another. Have you ever had family tell storys about you and your husbands that was not really true and did not paint a good picture of you? I feel I can be honest here. My mom lives with us and I truly am beganing to think she is crazy. We are building an addition on to our house for her. Due to some trouble with contractors we ran out of the money she had for it. Now we are trying to come up with it ourselves, but it is slow going. She makes very little money, like not even enough to pay her bills. You all know yp’s don’t make much so most everything is up to me and I can only work so many hours.
To explan here we moved her into our finished bedroom and she has the run of our down stairs. We are in a upstairs room that is not finished because we were remodleing when she moved in. So all most all bills paid finished down stairs and most of the time we are not home so the run of our house is hers. She has been telling people in our church she lives in a small room cramped room and that we have the supplies to finish hers but just won’t take the time. This is to the point that one church member took it on thier own to send out a email
to half a dozen other members saying this was serious and they need to pull to gather and come over for a day and finish it because we wouldn’t and she needed out of that little room. We in turn had to send one to everyone saying we did not have the needed supplies and one day was not near enough to finish it. We were as nice as we could be. Now I feel there are some in church thinking we are doing her wrong basIed on what she has said. It is a big mess. I don’t know what to say to them. Most of all to her. She has done nothing but put our efforts down. This is to the point of me wanting to tell her pack and make it on your own. There is much more bad history between her and I then I will go into. The point to all this my husband has even gotten upset with her because of her damaging his wittness. I don’t know what to say or do to any of them. Help!!!!! AnyOne got advice?????