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Well, after seven days out of the office, I am back here, sitting at my desk with a dozen or so voicemail messages and 100 emails to answer. I already weeded out the spam, newsletters, advertisements, etc…
Isn’t that the fun part of going on vacation?? 🙂
No, that’s not. But I must say that playing football any time of the day with my boys, or reading books with them, or playing anything with Kirstie, or just having fun with Julia or going out to Skyline as a family, or staying up till 1:30 in the morning chatting with good friends, or spending some relaxing time (mostly) with my parents and other extended family… it was all great.
When we got home Monday night, we hosted Wayne Jacobsen for a couple nights, and invited a few “out of the box” friends over to have dinner and just get to chat about our various experiences with God in his kingdom. It was a PACKED house, but tons of fun… lots of good conversations. Great to spend some time with Wayne (especially before and after the little soirée). We have many similar experiences I think, so it was cool to share stories and thoughts on life with God together.
Now I’m back, and I must say that although there was SO MUCH great stuff we did… do you know what was the most amazing thing I did on vacation?
Ate at Skyline Chili a record FOUR times in one trip? No…
Played hours and hours of football and soccer with the boys? No….
Learned a lot about the Spanish-American war? No…
Polished off several pounds of chocolate? No…
Four blog posts in one night (after 2am, no less…) ??? No….
The MOST AMAZING thing that I did was…
I fixed our toilet. Seriously. Like… just me… with Wayne coaching from behind… with a couple wrenches… (and only a minor leak through the ceiling below… but we’ll just pretend that didn’t happen…)
I actually fixed our toilet.
Alright… time to get crackin on those emails…
More as the week progresses…