Oh What a Night

Tonight I did the only thing left on my "I will Never" list...I led Kids Club. I actually taught the lesson!! I probably shouldn't be writing this now, I haven't had a lot of time to process, but I guess here is my first impression.

To start with, I was ridiculously nervous. Not quite as nervous as I was when I preached at church, but a very close second. I was pretty much up front the entire time, and that is my least favorite thing to do. I really don't like being up front. That isn't so much a humility thing as it is an insecurity thing...although even at my most confident I still prefer to be behind the scenes. However, once I am up front I usually find myself pretty comfortable, which is what happened tonight. I hate going up front, but once I was there, I was fine.

I was pretty excited about the lesson I had planned and while I didn't do it exactly how I wanted to (I doubt I will ever get it perfect), overall I was happy with how it went. We talked about how Jesus lived before He was born...how He left heaven to be with us. I have no idea what the kids thought (they always seem to have the same look on their faces) but I made it through. It feels good to have done one and hopefully it will make the next one easier. I really just have to get past the looks on the kids faces, I always think they are annoyed and/or bored. I remember always being riveted by Carisa's lessons but seeing those same looks on the kids faces, and I know the kids love Carisa's lessons.

I don't know what the future holds for Kids Club, but although tonight went pretty well I am not feeling a pull to making this my new job. We'll see how the rest of the season goes. I really enjoyed being in the Reading Room tonight. We are doing Mad Libs with the kids, teaching them what verbs, nouns, adjectives, etc. are. It was really fun tonight!

Bonita and Linda are spending the night tonight, which is funny to me. On Kids Club nights they pretty much go straight to bed, but they still love to come over. Works for me, I don't have to do much!! We will be getting up very early tomorrow though. I have jury duty (AGAIN!!) and have to be downtown by 8 a.m. So, I have to drop the girls off at home by 7, which means we get up at 6:30. Whew!

I have a lot of work to do over the next week or so for my job with AIM, but it comes at a really good time because I don't have to prepare my next Kids Club lesson for 2 weeks; next Tuesday is Family Night.

So, now that clubs have started back up I am getting a real look at what the next few months are going to be like. I'm really glad I got to ease into it...starting with AIM before clubs start up and things going a little slow with AIM in the beginning. Its already starting to pick up and get busier, but I still feel really good about the way things are going. I'm really excited to make it to Saturday, Hershey Park!!!! (I love my days off!)

On a completely different note...I really like my neighbors but I don't enjoy their music 24/7.