#6 Get Involved in a Longer Term Bible Study... CHECK!

This goal from my 101 goals in 1001 days list has technically been checked off for a while now, but I just forgot it was on my list! Ever since we moved back to Texas, we've been wanting to get involved in a Bible Study with other couples as the ones we had in Arizona were so meaningful to us. We started meeting with another couple, our neighbors from down the alley, last January. Then this summer, we had another neighborhood couple join the study as well!

We were meeting every other week at each other's houses sharing a meal and then putting the kids to bed to do our study. That worked well for a while, but the kids were not always cooperating with going to sleep! But we've finally stumbled up on a system that works well for parents of young children - so parents... listen up! The way our meeting schdule goes now is we eat dinner all together, play for a little bit, and then the moms barricade themselves in a back room for an hour and do their study while the dads play with the kids. Then the moms take the kids home, since they are all ready for bed by that point, and the dad's stay and do their study. We switch up too who goes first, the moms or dads. This works out especially well since we all live within walking distance of each other.

It has been so fun to learn more from the Bible and learn more about each other at the same time! We've been meeting for almost a year now and still plan to keep going and hopefully bring another family into our group soon as well.