It is so good to have the better half back home. She went to TMEA (Texas Music Educators Association) convention in San Antonio last Tuesday and returned last night. Our middle J was there with his college choir. They were the talk of the convention. I got to hear them a couple of weeks ago at their pre-TMEA concert. While we were at that concert the better half whispered in my ear that she saw the two year old face of Jacob when she looked up on the stage. I glanced at him and totally lost it. She realized that when she said what she said that she could not look at me because then she would lose it. They grow up so fast.
While Cyndie was in San Antonio, I got to be Mr. Mom. I got to wake up every day at 5:30 to take Jay to school and do all of the other things that a good working wife does. In addition to these fun things, I got to host a birthday sleep over last Friday night. Jay’s birthday is this coming Saturday but we are headed to Florida that day and he wanted to have some of his closest friends over for some fun. One of his friends cooked red beans and rice and the other one brought cheese cake and cinnamon rolls. They had a blast until 2 pm on Saturday when I took the friends home.
Our 75,000 square foot church building situated on 15.5 acres of land was officially sold to the buyer that has been delaying the closing for almost 10 months. We are now renting from the owners and can stay in our current location for 12 months while we build our new building on the 92 acres we bought 4 years ago. The buyer was delaying so they could get all of the approvals from the city of Houston for the water they are going to need. They have bought properties all over the United States building their huge retail centers and have never bought a property without all of the permits and approvals in place until now. They still lack an approval for the water they need but bought the property hoping they would get what they need.
Work is going amazing. The account management group we are creating is shaping up just swell. We completed the first stage of training last week and the folks that went through it are catching on to their new duties quickly. We have more training going on this week for the folks that will start proactive account management. I am so pumped at how things are falling into place. Every day something else occurs to reinforce the efforts we are taking to improve the experience for our customers.
As for the walking by faith thing, it works. Try it, you will like it.
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Amen! Our church will soon start building too. It’s an exciting time for us. I’ll bet you did a terrific job as Mr. Mom.
Very excited for ya’ll about the church. I know ya’ll will do great things in the new building. It’s hard to believe that after 4 years it’s only gonna be 12 months ’til ya’ll are in the new place. God really does work wonders!