The Jozen One

On Sunday my family gathered slowly and with much coffee to the place where we've gathered nearly every Sunday since March of 2020, the couch.  Our once, "excited to go to church in jammies", moods have now melted down into, "thank God no one can see my bed head and if we ever get back to normal, will we have forgotten that we can't fart whenever it happens upon us?" I know. Silly, but let's be honest, it will be weird.  Pastor Shawn kicked off this week with a fun title: If you Snooze, You Lose. He proceeded to share his lesson on time management < self management and challenged us to assess how we spend our time on social media and with television. This lesson piqued my interest most especially because I did not feel guilty AT ALL about how much social media time I've spent in the past week. So I eagerly opened up my settings and the family shared our "time spent" information with one another.  Although I was not feeling guilty, I did ...

When we are small, we don't know yet that the relationships we see in our adult overlords...are something we can have one day. Think about it. It was not a clear concept to me that I would grow up to be one of those adults. In fact, as odd as it may seem, I didn't realize until I was about 15 years old that that's where I was headed and that I might have some input on what that adulty phase would look like. In my ignorance, there was just this idea that adulting and life would just happen to me.  Expectations are interesting things. Sometimes we don't have them until it's too late to reasonably ask that they be met. Many decisions would have been differently, if I knew that having my own expectation was ok. Yes, I certainly had it in my mind that I would make a home, raise the children, manage the house, handle the social affairs, cook, clean, organize...you know....but, I didn't think that I'd have to go get a job after the kids went to school, grew up, or ...

Never a dull moment with these rockstars🤘