A trip to Nashville and JFFF Link-up!

It's FRIDAY! Just for Fun link-up!

Happy Friday, everyone!  I hope you are reading this blog at the end of a good week, ready to relax and have some quality family time or even quality ME time this weekend!  Make sure the link-ups at the bottom of the page are part of your relaxing weekend.  I always find such interesting things in the link-ups, I'm loving finding new people to get to know!

This week I am in Nashville at the National Collegiate Ministry Summit enjoying some down time while my husband goes to lots of meetings.  I've made a few appearances, but mostly I've gotten to hang out with good friends and lay around in a hotel room - BLISS. 

Me, Kaye, Mrs. Kathy, and Angie

The maid-of-honor in my wedding, one of my favorite people ever created by God lives in Nashville.  She and her husband moved here less than a year ago to work at Lifeway, he's a new Lifeway Vice President bigwig.  It's kinda funny to me because I still feel like we are all 19 year old kids and NONE of us should be old enough to write books and be VP's of companies and know people I only know from the jackets of books. 

Another highlight of my week was this picture on the right.  This was a night I got to sit around a dinner table with some of the funniest, most interesting people I know.  Kaye and Eric who have been pastoring in Miami for years and now are at Lifeway, Todd and Angie who are are Collegiate Ministers in Louisiana, and Mrs. Kathy - the woman who changed all of our lives.  For real.  We were all together at the Baptist Student Union in college (what WE knew it as, now it's BCM and a daily part of my life!) and Mrs. Kathy was our director.  She was our mentor and is still the one I will run to when I need HELP!  Just being around this woman will change you, she is the Proverbs 31 woman I aspire to be.  It is terrifying to think that I am now "Mrs. Kathy" to the college students we work with.  It's alot to live up to! 

I don't know if you remember the last time I left my children to go away with my husband, but I don't do it easily.  I did have a panic attack on day one, spent the day of driving here in a panic-sick haze and hating that I can't control my dang bodily reactions.  BUT, God is good and it has lessened as the week went on and I am having a great time.  Even though my daughter is at the doctor right now with my Mother, has had a fever all week and is going to miss her first ever sleepover at a friends house.  I am fine.  I am.  FINE. 

What's on the agenda for today?  Lying around the hotel until noon, meeting all the Arkansas Baptist Collegiate Ministers for an amazing lunch and then shopping with the wives all afternoon.  Back to the room to nap, then a date with my husband in Nashville!  It's gonna be a GOOD DAY!!!!

Now it's your turn!  I have plenty of time to lay around and read what your week was like!!!  Link-up your favorite posts from the week, as many as you like!  Make sure you link directly to that POST and not just to your blog so that we can always find it.  Link back here so we can keep the party going!  Feel free to grab the button (it's hangin out on the right of the page, just waiting for you...)and share the fun.