Worship

Today's schedule looked loosely like the following:
8:00a - Roll off the bunk after cracking lighthearted retort from a groggy stupor towards Wes who prepares breakfast more than...
8:05a - Pancakes
8:30a - Intercessory prayer for neighbors, neighborhood, and other loved ones.
9:00a - Swing by the office for a final run at lesson plans before being nearly late to the class I teach.
10:02a - Be nearly late for the class I teach.
10:03a-330p - Teach and talk, jest and joke with middle school students about causes and effects of both drug abuse and violence
4:00p - Home to make a third attempt (in as many weeks) to finish watching Ed Norton save Liv Tyler and the world as "The Incredible Hulk"
4:05p - Zzzzz
6:00p - Roll off the couch in the office, stumbling instead of standing only to flop and smash into nearly every wall or door on the way to the kitchen.
6:30p - Watch the procession of children march resolutely toward the house.
6:45p - Set up for dinner
6:55p - Corral everyone into the dining room for prayer
7:00p - Hold Donovan by the hand during prayer so he doesn't leap face, preventing disturbing amounts of forehead carpet-burn
7:01p - Remove someone else's cup from Donovan's hand, get him his own cup of water
7:05p - Toss D. over my shoulder in order to slop a spoonful of Speedy Gonzalez into bowl
7:15p - Finally arrive at the table, D. on knee placing a straw cornucopia bowl from his head to mine back to his on to Conner's finally back to his.
7:25p - After many surprisingly successful attempts at feeding, D. needs a new activity unrelated to the dinner table.
7:30p - Step inside to induce dance party, watch the nearly 3 year old Donovan commence various maneuvers similar to break dancing.
7:45p-9:00p - Follow in D.'s every footstep as he finds a skateboard to scoot up and down the driveway on, scoot under the picnic table on the patio, crawl up an incline and release into a board slide that would have otherwise been fearfully harmful had there not been supervision, attempt to ride the board out the door down an 18 in. fall onto concrete, play with the pieces from Sorry, Operation, and Connect Four, all among other less notable activities.
9:00p - Drag children out of the house back to their own home
9:15p - Drag children out of the yard back to their own home
9:30p - Drag ourselves away from the children, back to our house
9:45p - Relearn how to play 42 (dominoes)
11:30p - Realize I haven't eaten dinner
11:32p - Eat dinner while listening to Wes and Connor jam
11:45p - Rediscover Ariel's homemade Incredible Oatmeal Banana Bread
12:15a - Begin writing about the rich day in the Kingdom I was allowed
1:03a - Realize typing an "a" next to 12:15 means I should finish writing and fumble through the dark towards a bed.
1:04a - Shower and sleep, at the same time?