Ten on Tuesday

Ten on Tuesday... Fall is here!

1. I'm beyond excited about tomorrow... about staff meeting, community, love, home. About conversations, preparations and planning. Tomorrow is the start of fall routine and I'm happy that is is here again.

2. It's quiet here at Sorrento Centre... here at home. The youth staff have left, the guests have left, the place is quiet. I miss the people who had gathered here, I miss the staff who are also my friends, but I'm also very excited for for the quiet and the slower pace.

3. I'm in teacher mode... and in sticky note planning mode... This is how I imagine planning children's ministry, youth ministry and young adults... will I still be using this organized and colourful system in a months time? Who knows...

4. I received an email this afternoon with an invitation that has me feeling like I can't say no (and I say this feeling honoured, not limited!). It sad the following, "I am writing to you today to invite you to accept to be nominated to serve..." and at the end of the email, "By this letter I am requesting you accept to service on the assembly..." Hehe... oh dear... I doubt I have a valid reason to say "no"!

5. I am waist deep in 2014 planning for Sorrento Centre... Summer has just ended, my fall programming soon to begin with 2014 already in the middle of it's planning. Wow!

6.  I have to decide in the next few days whether I'm going to a gathering with colleges, for a while I was thinking that I wouldn't because I'm already going to be away so much... but now I think that I might need that college time!

7. I spent my Saturday sick on the couch. But after one day I was back to (near) full functioning. It took: Emergen-C, Echinacea Water, cough drops, two boxes of kleenex, VapoRub and season 2 of Call the Midwife.

8. I discovered how lovely it is to have my radio in my living room rather than bedroom... CBC radio all the time! (yes... sometimes I'm like a 65 year old!)

9. I'm back to meal planning, life scheduling and ministry planning and dreaming. Love it.

10. 51 day until I leave for Busan...