My Friday

4:45.

Yep. 4:45. AM.

Finley Grace Wright...up at 4:45am...ready to start her day.

So, I got up, filled her cup and put her back in bed. For fifteen minutes.

For the next hour or so, that's the little game we played - Dad trying desperately to put a child back to sleep. For an hour.

I've been a parent for six years. Not a long time, but long enough to know two things:

#1. Sometimes, you can get a kid back to sleep if you do it just right.
#2. Sometimes, they are not going back to sleep short of having their sippy cup spiked with Benadryl.

Since we didn't have any Benadryl (No, Kristen...I didn't actually look for some,) we had lots of fun "playing" while Daddy laid on the carpet and dozed.

Kristen woke up at 7 and I laid back down for a bit. Once everybody was up, we got to work! Krist and I began washing every clothing item we own so we can pack as much as possible. We also washed dishes and packed them up and then cleaned out our closets of lots of clothes we don't use anymore. (It's horrible how much stuff we have that we don't use. Don't tell Shaun Groves.)

After some work, Jonah ran into town for some errands. We hit the bank, the grocery store, then grabbed some lunch for the family. After we got home, Kristen and I were about to tackle one of the porches when Finley woke up. As you can probably see from the video below, Finley wasn't feeling well on Friday, so she had napped much earlier than usual.

We did some more work around the house, filling boxes, picking up clutter and then it was time to get ready for our party!

We dropped off Jonah at his cousin's house and then to Finley to Sugar's. Tonight we had dinner with the FUMC praise band at Chris Caraway's house. It was a great time - good food, lots of laughter and memories about our journey together as we've led worship. It was a sad parting for me...I'll see most of those folks on Sunday, but the whole leaving thing is really sinking in this weekend.

We left the party and little after 9, picked up kids and got home to put them straight into bed. We were pretty worn out so we hit the sack a little earlier than usual!

Tomorrow - more packing!

Other Fridays:
Ross
Artie