Business Meetings

I look to the left and have an old dieing nursery that went out of business six months ago. Smack dab behind me are offices and offices of all things dental. I have one book shelf with the top tier being children's books, middle being youth items, and the bottom containing...well I am not really sure, but there is one pair of my shoes sitting on something. I have three half-way working lamps and a lamp shade. A whole garbage bag of extremely thick, black out paper producing a lovely fragrance to the room. One lonesome chair for any passerbyers that would like to chat. I have an organ. Well, half of an organ with a bench. There is a box of paper towels and someone's coffee cup. I have a big box of pool noodle/light sabers and an entire crate of video games. Playing in the background of my room is but of course Pastor Andrew's latest message (You can enjoy it here: http://www.rccconline.com/online-messages/sunday-messages.html ) and I have my husbands orange electric with pedals. My desk is covered with youth to kid's paperwork, a chocolate mousse (thank you Kathy Bryson) and a cup full of crayons. 

This is my new work home. I have been exiled to the far corner of the sanctuary, but I have my own personal bathroom. This week we officially made transitions at work. I am no longer up front answering phones or checking emails. I am working away on kid's lessons, youth missions trips and brainstorming sanity relief for all my parents that have multiple children who just got out of school for the entire summer. I am not greeting people as they come in or dealing with pushy sales people. I am instead reading and organizing. I am allowing Pastor Jesse to do my old job and watching him excel at it, as he is allowing James and me to take over a portion of his job. This is the new life.

And in this humble abode, that in just two days, I have grown to love so much...completed my very first business meetings in ten minutes of each other. My first was a full intense debriefing from 3 of the Huson's. We had quite a bit to catch up on from their weekend and talk about summer plans. Of course, they had some opinions about my new office. Mighty walked into the bathroom and after a few minutes walked back out and told me it was really small in there and it was kind of stinky. As I asked him jokingly if he was the cause of the "stinkiness" a huge grin came across his face. Thank goodness the bathroom door is fairly thick. Then when they left to move onto the next exciting thing, Pastor Andrew came in to talk over some church business. He also had an opinion of my office...it was too messy. Apparently, before any further meetings with him I have to pick up a bit. Then my last, but certainly not least, Miss Elsie came back in to talk a little bit more about summer. She insisted that we arrange a date for Pinto and Lottie to meet up so we can comb their hair and dress them up.

I love the balance of business and fun my job has. I don't know of anyone else who could talk about planning major events, paying bills, coloring, and clowns all in the same day. I would not change my business meetings for any other kind of business meetings.

There's a tid-bit for you.