Jacob starting high school volleyball again

 A little pre-season activity.  The boys went 7-1 in sets, beating St. John’s and Taunton and split 1-1 with Milford.

Another comedy club try

 Awesome to spend an evening  with Dave and Eileen tonight….but, sadly, the comedy was TERRIBLE.  

The food was not great at Six Strings either…so I think we were 0-2 on the night…glad we were with friends :)

Honestly the funniest part of the evening was the comics having to deal with a woman who was celebrating her 40th birthday who got a little aggressive in her heckling….considering how un-funny they had been up to that point, we should have bought her a drink for giving them some material to talk about.

Kristen birthday - foot bridge

So, one of Kristen’s gift this year was this little foot bridge that I made today and then placed over our little “creek” in the backyard.

I moved some of the rocks to try to create a nice flat space and the. I supported it with rocks in hopes that it won’t get weak from walking over it, but I suppose time will tell.

Kristen birthday

 We celebrated Kristen’s birthday today and probably for the first time ever she enjoyed sharing it with St Patricks Day.  I think that was because we found the Reunion Tap and Table restaurant.  It had live music and was an awesome time as Kristen and I stayed after dinner with the boys to enjoy drinks and music.

She met another birthday girl and we even met a gentleman from church who is part owner of the location - he picked up the bar tab too!  Then we had Jacob act like an Uber driver and pick us back up to come home.

An awesome day and an awesome way to celebrate with Kristen.

Level up - follow up

Well, what an awesome moment to appreciate that God both honored our decision to help lead a workshop and to give us that desired feedback that helped affirm that we were helpful.

Paul Jackson, from church, came to a session and then shared one of our teachable moments with Rachel, his wife, that same day as they got home from the conference.  

The “protect your yes” segment actually played immediately into a situation with one of their children and they felt that it was helpful and impactful to their own discussion and decision making.

How wonderful that they then chose to share with us today as well.  

Leadership conference - level up

 

Kristen and I helped 2 breakout sessions at a leadership conference at the church this weekend.

We were asked to talk about influence in parenting and enjoyed spending time working it with the Coopriders.  The discussions were interesting and we are hopeful that God used the discussions to help soon-to-be parents, current parents, grand parents and even folks that just have kids around them.

I think we enjoyed and learned as well.  Kristen and I both loved one of the Coop’s points in our talk that spoke about knowing waiter/waitress’s names as a way of both showing our kids the importance of recognizing people around as as people that God knows and loves as well as making a point to not allowing people to blend into the background…just there to help serve us.

I imagine we will make a point of working on that ourselves.

I hope others took away things that will help them too.