Shaun Groves
My road manager is hot. Becky is with me today in Jefferson City, Tennessee. I’m speaking at Carson-Newman‘s chapel service this morning and then Becky and I drive back home again…without our kids. Conversation between adults without kids. Lunch together without kids. Just two big people talking about big people stuff. The kids are in heaven while we’re away, sleeping over at Aunt Amy’s house, with whom they’d live forever if they could (IS it wrong for a boy to have a crush on his aunt? It is Tennessee so…)
This afternoon Brian and Amy (Amy is Becky’s sister) take off for California together and we’ll watch their four kids for two days.
Becky got the best night of sleep she’s had in a while at the Hampton Inn here. And Amy, I’m sure, will catch up on rest while in California too. And that may be the greatest gift we could give our wives right now.
I don’t know how we’d get by without family so close by and willing to take care of us and our kids. Who do you have to lean on like that?
Andy Vandergriff says:
i hope yall have fun at my alma mater(or so to speak).
Tracy says:
My husband is a musician as well, and with that comes lots of travel. I don’t know what I would do without my brother and sister in law. They are the only family that lives close to us and have been such a blessing to us, always willing to help. I don’t know what I’d do without them!
Kim says:
We have wonderful neighbors in our cul-de-sac that we lean on… lets just call them Mr. and Mrs. Yummy!!
angie says:
My folks take my kiddos every Friday night! They (my kiddos) call it Friday Night Rumba–I have NO idea why!
It is such a blessing to us! We don’t always have a ‘date’, but we do always use complete sentences and finish WHOLE conversations, which certainly doesn’t happen the rest of the week with the three monkeys running around.
Enjoy your day with your sweetheart!
Anon says:
Brody is totally hot… oh wait, you were talking about Becky
Yeah.. I’ve been graduated from high school for a year and half, during which I’ve lived with my parents and two of my sisters. Next year I might even move in with my brother depending on if I go to Central Michigan University. My whole family is pretty cool like that ^_^
amy says:
Ah! I have this conversation once a week, I think. We have 12 family members living within 45 minutes of our family of four, totaling, obviously, a whopping 16 of us who can count on each other – not that it always works out that way. However, the flipside is: 16 birthday celebrations, 4 anniversaries, 6 soccer seasons/piano recitals/football games and 3 school schedules – working around 3 people who work in the same office and can’t all be out at the same time and 2 elderly matriarchs with the special needs that come with being 86. This amounts to (almost) weekly gatherings – the organizing of which feels like one of those IQ games about getting people across the river.
keith says:
Good question. Wish I could answer it.
Noelle says:
Hey Keith, I’ll be praying about you for that. That can be tough when you feel that you have no one to call on in times of trouble or just someone to talk to.
hollybird says:
we have our church family. there is a reason to go for ya!
Melissa Slater says:
I just wanted to let you know that I enjoyed you coming to Carson-Newman and speaking to us. You and your wife are amazing people. Keep it up!
Shawn Bashor says:
I have a bunch of really neat people that are truely like family. I mean I know anyone of them (I don’t want to list names, because God forbid forget one) would doing anything (within reason) for me.
Molly Ranae says:
My mom and I (we were just talking about this the other day) take turns being that for each other, since I am single and live at home, and we both have busy schedules (but who does not these days?). However a lot of what I do are things that only I can do(i.e. homework, classwork, work, etc…) but my mom tries to make my life less complicated as best as she can, helping out with laundry, cooking, and praying for me probably more than I know. I am so glad that God has given me to her, but cannot wait to see/am half terrified of what my life will look like as He moves me on (whenever that will be).
Alan says:
The closet family to us (my wife, myself, and our 2 kids) is three hours away. Luckily we have a great church family and some great friends that have really been there for us to help us out when we’ve needed it, or when we’ve just needed a night out away from the kids.
Kat says:
We don’t have any family nearby, but we do have some good friends whom we’ve known for at least 10 years. We trade date nights with one couple. One week, my friend will come over here after the kids go to sleep so that Jimmy and I can go out and then the next week I’ll go over to her house so that she and her husband can go out.
It’s been a wonderful arrangement for us.