Intro to blogland

I made a “to-do” list for my vacation last week. At the bottom of the list was “start a blog”. It’s a week and a half late but here I am.

I’ve been particularly busy this week helping out at VBS. I’m one of the only male leaders in the whole program. I’ve been placed as the authority figure for a handful of grade 5 and 6 boys. At the start of the week I wasn’t too sure about how well we’d get along. Now, with only one day left I can safely say that they’ve wormed their way into my heart.

It’s funny. In only 3 days, a half-a-dozen boys with bad hair and weird ideas managed to change me, their leader. Who would have though that poorly behaved kids could have had such a profound effect on me. Makes me wonder how many adults felt like that about me when I was young.

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