Our church has hired a college Freshmen from OCC to be a Youth Minister. Kolton must definitely be doing it for the experience because he sure isn't getting rich doing it. We are thankful for him doing this because he has been a great addition. Our church needed some new blood with some new ideas. Also...being 19 helps a lot to with carrying out those ideas...
Kolton wanted to have a Lock-in this past weekend. This is why having someone young is great. There is no way in the world I'd voluntarily throw a lock-in. I did not like them when I was young and I sure as heck don't like them 20 years later. But the kids loved it last night. I think we ended up with 7 kids total. Six of them were boys and 4 of those are 10. You can imagine what last night was like. I'm just glad the screams I heard last night were coming from the church basement and not my living room!
The lock-in started Friday night at 8:30 pm. Jay took Cade and another friend to the church and he also took Camryn. Taking Camryn had a dual purpose. I was trying to clean and he thought he could use her as an excuse to not stay all night....oh, I need to run Camryn home. We are not people who enjoy being up for 24+ hours straight. I would've gone but with Camryn not feeling good for 3 weeks my house had crossed over into the realm of absolutely disgusting. If given the choice between a public restroom and one of our bathrooms it would've been a tough choice. The only reason why I might have picked ours would've been because I was at least related to the germs.
There were so many little things that I hadn't done around our house for so long that I cleaned from 5pm to after 10:30pm. When I was done I realized that Jay wasn't home yet so I thought I'd better check on him. He might have been having so much fun that I needed to pick up Camryn.
Jay and I talked and we decided he'd stay longer and I'd come pick up Camryn. I told him I had to switch out some laundry and I'd be right there. I got started on the drive into town and I was very cautious about the area where there are always deer. I knew they'd be all stirred up. Then I was ready to turn onto 96 and I had to wait on several cars. Then when I got to crossroads I couldn't believe all the activity. There were a few cars at the gas station and a couple of cars on either side of 96 waiting to cross it. Since I had been trying to spot any cars driving erratically from either drinking or falling asleep at the wheel I was extremely put out by the number of cars I spotted. What kind of business did all of these people have being out so late????? Then I looked at the time on my car...10:55 pm. Good grief, I am old! I kind of laughed at myself and then tried to remember the last time I wasn't home before 10. It has been so long ago I don't remember. Once I got the church I did end up staying until almost 2am. It has been a very long time since I willingly was up at that time. At least I redeemed myself to myself a little bit....I was pretty glad though when Cade told me that they wanted to play Hide and Seek in the Sanctuary but couldn't because Camryn was sleeping in a pew. I gladly took my leave at that time. But not before reminding Jay to watch for deer on the way home....
If I'm having a hard time with Cade, can you imagine what it will be like when Camryn has a lock in? Since I'll be eating dinner at 4:30 pm having to drop her off at 8:30pm will really cut in to my bed time. I remember being so put out with my dad when he said that there was nothing going to happen after midnight that I couldn't do before then. At least he said midnight. I'll be asking my kids why they want to go out after 7pm....
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