About Last Weekend...

I'm new to this whole blogging thing, and I didn't realize that I had saved this post as a draft instead of publishing it. Better late than never, I suppose.
So last weekend, I had the pleasure of attending the Alberta-British Columbia District Convention, and discovered that not all conventions are tedious and boring - just most of them! Truthfully, once I had an idea of what was going on, it was actually quite interesting (now that I have admitted that, I'll probably be 'appointed' to a floor comittee at every convention from now till I die). Our committee dealt with business arising from the report of the Department of Outreach. Thrilling. There was some lively debate (along with some not-so-lively nitpicking regarding the wording of amendments to amendments and the placement of commas and other such nonsense), but everything we set out to do was accomplished. Way to be, floor committee #1!
Long days and late nights makes Nat a tired girl, so it will probably take a few days to recover.
It's nice to see people you don't get to see very often - is there such a thing as 'networking' in the church? Or is it always that Lutheran game of trying to figure out if you are in some way related to everyone present. We could call it "6 degrees of Martin Luther."
Anyway, the most exciting part of the weekend (besides seeing my parents - Hi mom and dad!) was hearing that my nephew was born on Sunday! Benjamin was born at 12:35 (just as we were lining up for the buffet). He's pretty cute, if you ask me...but I'm totally biased. We're heading to CowTown on the 13th for a little baby-shower action.