A Little Bit of Culture...........LOL

We decided that the boys needed a little bit of culture in their life so we took them to a very important, prestigious event.

Roller Derby

Yes, folks, we took our impressionable teenage boys to go watch girls basically beat each other up. That was 1.5 hours of completely worth while time. It's time I will never get back! But really I believe there was another reason I was there and I'll share at another time. It's funny how God can use an event like that to spark something in us. Oh and before you ask, I'm NOT thinking of starting a Christian roller derby team.

Outward

I don't understand kids, but to be honest I don't understand most adults.....LOL. Anyway, this past week has been an event called Outward. It is a week long event where kids (teenagers) come together and serve their community. Outward was made up of 3 churchs, Compass here in Cincinnati and a church from Michigan and one from Pennsylvania. These 2 out of town churches are with a mission team called Powerplant. They go to different parts of the country and help new church plants. These kids are interested in either starting a church of their own someday or go into the mission field. They have a time of teaching and worship in the morning and then they head out to the church that they are here to help. In this case it was Compass. My boys went everyday this week and did outreach. They washed cars, gave out water, prayed for people and help put on an outdoor party. Cody and Austin loved it. But I did find out that Cody liked a girl so that meant come hell or high water, he was going.....LOL. I found out about this from the girl's mother but that's another post at another time. Honestly I don't care that he wanted to go to see a girl because regardless he still went out and did the outreaches and told the world that he is a christian. What more could a parent want, right? Austin loved it. He came home one day and told us that he actually got to pray for someone (he didn't do the praying but was with a group who did) and he was looking forward to Sunday to see if that person would come to church.

So they had a week like that but today, Friday, they are back to being demanding and self absorbed. I guess I was like that at their age. My mom was right, I would have children that behave like I did. Oh well, at least I can rest in the fact that God worked on them this week and it gives me hope that they will become men of God.

New Idea

So I've been trying to decide what I want this blog to be and it finally occured to me......write about my life with teenagers. It definitely has it's ups and downs, it's actually alot like living with toddlers. I really need to journal about this time because I am finding that it's a bit difficult. I want people to give me feedback on what they've done or just encouragement. And I need prayer. For those of you who have children, you know you pray more now than you ever have....LOL. But seriously I need prayer. The power of prayer is a beautiful thing.

So what's up with the name change "Are We There Yet?", well, we've all asked that question and I really want to know, are we at the end of the journey of teenagehood (is that a word?)?

Here are my buttheads, oops I mean my precious boys:

Austin is on the left, he's 13, and Cody is on the right, he'll be 15 on August 4th. This is not the best picture in the world but it does give you a frame of reference.

My boys will die of embarrassment when they know that I am blogging about them. Maybe they'll be on their best behaviour if they know that what they do will get out on the web. Maybe I should have talked about them sooner. We'll see.