Family First weekend is a weekend dedicated to immediate family.... of course we are a church family and we all have extended family but, Family First is a time to just rest and enjoy immediate family. We have one weekend each month that we schedule in no events... we guard this weekend for families to enjoy!
Family is so overlooked now days with such busy schedules- and lets be honest here, we can not expect people to have healthy family lives if we do not give them time to do just that!
Our first ministry is FAMILY and sometimes that is the ministry we tend to overlook so, each month on my calendar there is a highlighted spot that I look forward to and guard with my life!
This weekend we decided we will take it a step further and not only learn to say "no" to non-emergency events but, we would take it even further than that and turn our phones off.
thats right people, I said it.... we turned the phones off! After figuring out HOW to turn the phone off (that speaks volumes huh) we left it off for 2 days..... of course we checked in for emergencies but during our down time and while the phones were off some crazy things happened;
The world continued to turn!!!
AND
we rested!!!
We had an amazing weekend. We slept in... ate a home cooked breakfast. Read. Napped. Went for a walk to get ice cream and then we went to the domain for dinner at California Pizza (we love that place) and visited the Mac store so we could dream... then we had coffee and thumbed through books at Borders on Saturday night.
I also took up a new hobby.... more on that later!
Anyways, I hope that your weekend was restful and wonderful and that your priorities and Gods priority matched up by you putting Family First everyday!
We will actually be celebrating our 8th anniversary next month and since we will be on a youth trip during that time we will be celebrating it with a trip for our next family first weekend (Aug)... Im excited!
Here is one of the songs I had on repeat this weekend:
Have a great day everyone!
-Melissa
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