Sundays

After church - Sept. 23

Sunday's look different now for my family than they did just a few months ago. Trey leaves for church around 7:00, is robed for both services with Sunday School in between. He comes home for lunch and to help with naptime, then leaves again at 3:00 and comes home after youth that night, usually around 7:00, sometimes later.

This used to stress me out. I don't know why Sunday mornings can be stressful. I guess I feel the need to look put together and have Jones looking good and happy.

It can be exhausting, trying to fool everyone.

I have this pre-conceived notion that preachers wives should look and act a certain way. I do not fit that mold. This fact used to stress me out. Especially thinking about our future when Trey is an ordained Methodist minister. I think back to the preachers wives on my church growing up and our previous churches as a married couple. They have it together. I don't!

But I am learning to change that attitude. I am trying to be myself and not let Sundays stress me out.

I am starting to enjoy the one-on-one time with Jones. And I try not to fret about small things on Sunday mornings.

This past Sunday I didn't even shower before church. I doubt anyone even noticed.....or cared.

Trying to enjoy this season of our life and focus on the fact that God has brought us to this place for a purpose. And I doubt that purpose is for me to fit the "preachers wife" mold.