I’m speaking about blogging at the National Worship Leader Conference in Austin this week.  Becky’s here with me, savoring four days of sleeping in, eating out and doing whatever she wants whenever she wants.

My parents arrived yesterday to hang out with our kids for the week – drove all the way from Texas to Tennessee – I have incredibly generous parents.  And how did we repay them?  With a broken toilet.

Just before Becky left home for Austin, the kids’ toilet overflowed, brown water everywhere, every towel in the house used to corral it away from the hallway and neighboring bedrooms.  She plunged, Redneck Neighbor plunged – nothing worked. 

We phoned home this morning to see how life with no towels, three kids, two adults and one toilet was going.  My dad got a plumber out to the house and he found the problem: Thomas.  Yep, Thomas the tank engine was lodged deep in the potty.

Becky and I, on the other hand, are in a nice hotel with lots of towels, a working toilet and no children.  For fours days.

So, my blogging will likely be sporadic and not all that deep or entertaining this week.  It takes time to be consistent, deep(ish) and entertaining and, well, I’d rather spend those hours with Becky and lots of Tex-Mex right now.  Forgive me.  And come back when our four days of workation are up.