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New kid showed up last week and just stood by door looking terrified while my regular kids completely ignored him. Felt horrible watching him stand there invisible while everyone played like he didn't exist. Tried saying "everyone include Jake" but that made it worse somehow. Kids

So I'm sitting in my car in the church parking lot at 11 PM on a Thursday, picking dried glue stick residue off my jeans and wondering what on earth possessed me to think organizing a kids ministry talent show was a good idea. Three months ago, it

Tom's yelling at kids again during craft time and I'm just sitting here pretending it's not happening. Like seriously what is wrong with me? Emma spills glue and he goes "Emma come on be more careful!" in this really sharp voice and

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.