November

November is somehow gone and it's December. There is snow on the ground and ice on the sidewalks and it's definitely winter. I'm just not sure what happened to November!

I had a lot of facilitator meetings in November, and a few that had to be rebooked until the end of the month (and one until December 1). The weather stayed pretty good all month, so that was nice. There were some colder days towards the end of the month, but not much snow until this week.

We started Christmas concert practices this month. This year I included a sign up deadline in the notice, so most people were signed up by the Monday before the first practice. Of course, I let in everyone else who wanted to sign up late, but that wasn't many people, and most of them were still before the practice. We have close to 90 children involved this year!

I had to talk to a couple of parents about their children misbehaving during practice. Granted, sitting still is tough for small boys (the entire role of the shepherd is summed up in "sit still and don't talk"), but there was some excessive movement and talking. The moms were really good about it, so we'll see how things go in the next practice.

Women's ministry finished up and we're on winter break. I have a few weeks off from reading and trivia games. I'm okay today (the first week off), but by January I'll be ready to be back with my lambs.

Helping with the little guys during support group continued to be enjoyable. I also helped with childcare for the AGM. This was more of a mix of children, ranging from around 3-12. There were only 9 children (although I had a baby to hold for part of the evening), and they mostly did their own thing. I had a tentative plan, but dumped it for letting them play and make up their own games.

November really wasn't that exciting. Nothing happened out of the normal, day-to-day stuff. It wasn't a bad month; it was just a month.