All year long we, as a family, are always on the go. With three children, it is rare that we have a night at home where we have nothing to do during the school year. Soccer, swim, dance, dr appointments, youth group meetings, etc etc etc. Throw in some extra things like back to school nights and bake sales for added spice just to keep us on our toes!! So by the end of June we are often ready to collapse! Come July we take a break from everything and every activity and spend most of the summer doing summer things and being together as a family. This includes but is not limited to church. It isn't unheard of for the Chapman pew to be empty for the months of July and August.
Tonight, Todd and I sat to discuss our plans for tomorrow....which is, of course, Sunday! Should we just sleep in one last weekend? Do something? Go somewhere? One last trip to the shore before vacation? Cause once we return from vacation ( which is in 5 days in case you aren't counting with me) everything will be starting back up again. As we sat discussing which direction we should head in, Ryan comes in to ask if he can go to the movies tomorrow. I tell him that we are doing something as a family and that is exactly what Dad and I were talking about.
Ryan huffs in his lovely 16 year old way, like I am going to make him do something horrible and life altering like go to the mall for back to school clothes or something and then asks what we have to do. I just could not resist and told him "It is Sunday and we are going to church!"
"Not 'ah!!" he tells me in a shocked and disbeliving tone. "It isn't September yet!"
Todd, who decided he wanted to get in the torture, says "God doesn't take off Sunday!"
Ryans reply?
"Come on! What does He do all day long? Sit around up there and watch us eat, sleep, walk, go to the bathroom............??? So if we aren't doing much of anything, He doesn't have anything to do on Sunday either!!!!!!"
Ok.....one can't really argue with that!
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