Routine –
Everyone seems to have it, it does not matter if you have a planned routine or not. What we do in life becomes a routine. This really became evident to me this morning when I woke up late. See when you have children you are use to not setting the alarm because more likely than not the kids are up at some crazy hour in the morning. But yesterday morning they slept in until 8:00am. This threw my routine off. I had to rush to get ready for work then I arrived at the office about 20 minutes later than I normally do. In doing so I missed three phone calls. But that’s not the biggest problem for me right now.
I don’t want to get into a bad routine which is something most pastors fall into easily. I don’t want to put my ministry and my family above my personal needs. I don’t want to have poor personal care habits which I have seen first hand over and over again….I also had terrible personal care habits while on internship. I want to be able to get up in the morning and go to the gym (once we find one to join) and I want to work out and then have a nice breakfast and work reasonable hours. I want to be able to recognize when I am at the church too long and I need to go home. I want this church to be “daddy’s church” for my children instead of “daddy’s home” which it was on internship.
It is easy to get into a bad routine — to get caught up in the work day and stop at McDonalds for lunch instead of eating the healthy lunch that is packed. It is easy to say that tomorrow I am going to start going to the gym instead of doing it NOW. It is easy to stay alittle later at the church to finish Sunday’s sermon instead of going home to put the kids to bed……It is harder to START a good routine but once it is started it will make a world of difference.
I think all the writing I did from the end of December until January 2nd really took a toll on my ability to sit and actually blog. Between assignments due for school and stuff for my approval interview next week I was actually constantly writing over my whole vacation. Don’t worry I did have some fun 
We had a great vacation. The first part was tricky with where we were going to stay and who we were going to see when, I guess that’s the trouble when you are dealing with divorced parents. I did get some time to have fun and some time to relax.
Now we are home and the reality of my class coming up hasn’t fully hit me yet. I have a class starting on the 21st. Now I was thinking that these next few weeks are going to be great. I am not going to have to do anything school wise and I can work some and play some and start actually cleaning out some rooms for our move (God only knows where) in May/June. However, I look up the class yesterday and I see that I need to read four books and write 2/ 600-word essays about two of the books that I read.
This class is a VERY intensive course. We meet for four days — three blocks a day for three hours each block. I don’t think it will be very exciting. Then by the middle of February we need to have a 15-page paper written. I do not want that paper to carry over into the next semester.
Today is Logan and Daddy day– this tradition started while I was on internship. To make sure I had quality time with my son I would keep him home from Day Care on my Days off. We would go swimming at the YMCA and then have pizza for lunch and then just hang out. Today we are playing video games, going to the library at the seminary and perhaps getting some pizza somewhere.
There is so much I want to talk about – Roger Clemens, the voting in Iowa, and maybe even a little NFL playoffs but Logan wants a new race car to play with on Need for Speed.
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