Happy New Year! I now believe that Courtney has out-bloggeed me. Tears of sorrow and joy run down my face! Who would’ve thought she’d find as much time to blog as she has. (Well, I guess that is a relative term as we are still pretty infrequent). 2011 brought us, amongst others, Asher Benjamin, born June 30th. As I write this he is playing like crazy in his bouncer while his brother looks on. They’re both a joy.
The holiday season this year was one of those once-every-seven-or-so where Christmas Day and New Year’s Day were both on Sunday, leading to church services both times; but it also leads to some weird holiday rhythms where we have to play musical days off with the schedule. Since it is hard to head out of town when holidays fall on one of the most valuable days of the week for a pastor, I’ve had some time at home to mess with the blog layout. (Courtney, I’m still working on the logo at the top. I know it looks lame to just have “The Googers” written.) It brought me back to a blog post I wrote a year ago with my goals for 2011. What would a blog be without a review of things such as that? Continue Reading…
