Yesterday we went to 1st Tuesday at the Austin Stone for the first time. It was wonderful! The Kitty Cat went into childcare and said she enjoyed it and would go again. The Transformer went into the Perspectives class, which is for elementary-aged children, and said he really enjoyed it and would go again. Kirk didn't go because he had a bad toothache, which he is recovering from after treatment this morning.

I ended up running into someone I know from Community Group! We sat together and were grateful to have found each other because each of us was attending for the first time. We prayed, sang, prayed, had communion, sang some more, then had a corporate prayer before being dismissed. It lasted 1.5 hours. We got there late so I'm not sure how it started out.

Well, from there we got a list of needed items for many people in the St. John neighborhood in north Austin who had lost their homes and possessions in an apartment fire Monday. So today, instead of having school, I had the kids help me pull together some items that we could donate to the victims. We are planning to drive them up to the receiving center tomorrow.