The Saturday Morning Crew
On Saturday, the ladies from our church hosted a “Homeschool Mom Encouragement Day.” It was complete with fun discussions/seminars about homeschooling, a curriculum swap, a great catered lunch, free lattes at mid-morning, and just a bunch of good fellowship with other moms. The intent of the day was to encourage newer homeschooling moms by having seasoned moms share their joys, trials, struggles and successes (without having to feed kids/husbands for the day).
My best friend Eric (I’ve mentioned him before) and I helped our wives to get the church set-up and ready for the event with the famous “conquer and divide” technique. Early Saturday morning he drove over with the big boys to get tables up and sound/lights turned on, while I stayed home with the younger kids to feed them breakfast and watch reruns of Columbo.
Do the math with me here…we have 14 children between us…he took the top two boys…that left 12 (but the baby goes everywhere with mom, so that actually left 11) between the ages of twelve and one. The photo at the top are all of them waiting to eat breakfast…and the photo at the bottom is how I chose to feed the hungry mob.
Had you told me sixteen years ago that I would be feeding breakfast on a Saturday morning to nearly a dozen kids, I probably would have laughed (or ran away…). I also understand that caring and feeding for a herd of kids is not the highlight for most men’s Saturday morning…but in and amongst the donut swapping, juice spilling and funny discussions around our kitchen table, I clearly recognized God’s calling on my life.
Nothing fancy – donuts, fruit, Sunny D
P.s. Ek and Smidge…please watch what you eat and continue to take care of yourselves…I am not ready to do this every Saturday yet…
Quietly making noise,
Fletch
Posted on July 1st, 2007 by Fletch
Filed under: What I did this weekend
Looks like a well balanced meal to me!
Looks like a totally “Dad” kinda breakfast spread to me!
BTW, as just one mom of many who attended the aforementioned event, may I say a big THANK YOU to you as just one member of the session that pulled the day together for us? It was a first class event, all the way, and I left feeling not only encouraged, but pampered as well. Well done!
Shaking my head at the thought of a DENTIST feeding children glazed donuts and Sunny Delight for breakfast. Surely he at least insisted on them brushing immediately afterwards, right? LOL
(we won’t mention some of the things I’ve fed my own children for breakfast!)
man…i’ve been blitzed by copper’s women!
dani – not quite balanced…missing cinnamon rolls!
CW – glad to hear the day was a success…thanks for your part!
corin – i only play a dentist m-th. wait until i blog on “soda sundays” that will really get your fillings tingling…
Who knows how I found your blog but I’ve really been enjoying it. Especially your recent posts on kids in church and the pictures of your family (what we hope for one day). I literally laughed out loud at this one (well, it was sort of a “heh heh”). So…. are those Krispy Kremes?
cutzi…not sure how anyone finds this blog…i can just imagine the google search: “christian + dentist + buffett + bald”.
but, we are glad you found theMangoTimes…and no those are not KKdonuts…they are from our favorite local joint downtown. they always throw in free donut holes with any purchase…
fletch
In examining the photograph of the breakfast, I noticed something was missing. What was Dad/Dentist eating? The donut holes? Another melon?
Thanks for your families’ desire to equip and encourage others on the homeschooling path.
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