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It's 2:43 AM and I'm hiding in my basement storage room eating stale birthday cake with a plastic spoon because apparently when you accidentally teach children that the Son of God was basically doing content creation in ancient Palestine your brain demands carbs and dark

My kids hate Bible time. Like really hate it. Last week Emma asked if we could skip it and do math homework instead. When a kid prefers math over Bible stories you know you're doing something wrong. So I started trying games. Some work. Most don't.

So I'm sitting in my office after another VBS disaster trying figure out where everything went wrong and Tom walks in goes "You know there's actual tools that help with this stuff right?" I'm like what do you mean tools? I got

Found myself standing in the Hallmark aisle yesterday for twenty minutes trying to pick thank you cards. Twenty minutes. For cards. The problem isn't finding the right cards. Problem is I've been avoiding this for weeks and now it feels like this huge thing I'

Sitting here at 11:47 PM on Saturday night frantically googling "Bible lesson plans for kindergarteners" because I completely forgot to prep anything for tomorrow morning. This is my life apparently. Professional children's ministry leader who can't remember to plan lessons until the last

Last Christmas I made huge mistake. Planned this elaborate party with all these activities I found on Pinterest. Looked amazing online. Took me hours to prep everything. Kids show up and they're basically bored out of their minds within fifteen minutes. Games were too complicated. Instructions took forever.

So I'm telling the story of David and Goliath last month and I can see kids' eyes glazing over. Same old same old. Standing there talking while they sit there trying not to fidget. Then Emma raises her hand goes "Can we act it out instead?

So committee meeting last month and someone goes "We should do family movie night! Families love watching movies together!" I'm sitting there thinking sure sounds simple enough. Show movie. People watch. How hard could it be? Turns out way harder than just pressing play and hoping

Marcus threw his rainbow at my face yesterday and told me God sucks. Just stood there with paint dripping off my glasses thinking what the hell am I even doing with my life. Kid's seven. His rainbow looked like someone barfed crayons but honestly most second grader art