Derek

Two little known facts about my husband:
1. He is a real estate junkie. He gets on different MLS listing sites several times during the week and looks at homes for sale all over the place.


2. He likes to watch Antique Roadshow on PBS. I still don't get it.

Last week Derek was called into the bishopric of our ward as 2nd counselor. I am still not sure which light in which to view this development. Is this a good thing? Is this a punishment? Why us? Why NOW? Don't we have enough going on at this stage? Seriously?!?


In my mind, I have always viewed my family as being Moderately Mormon, occasionally tip-toeing into Jack. I am comfortable with this level. I have half-joked that I want to skate along on the fringe in order to avoid any major callings. This, by the way, has not worked for either one of us as we have still held rather weighty callings (I will remain in the primary presidency until after the program), but it still seems like a good theory to me. After he was put in as a counselor Derek informed me we might need to update our status to Mostly Mormon. Sigh...


I also quickly realized Derek and I have two different reactions to this. My immediate thought was of the enormous amount of time this would now occupy, as well as what in the world I was going to do with the kids during sacrament meeting. Derek's thoughts were somewhere along the lines of how can I do this and what will people think? I will be interested to see if the way people interact with him, or us, at church is different now with this calling. I suspect it might be.


When I found out about all of this I cried (and then I had to rush out of the room to go teach a Sharing Time on eternal families, where I was a total train wreck). When they asked if I'd support Derek in this calling I told them "No, but if I go home and pray about it I know what the answer will be, so I'll say yes now and deal with the rest later." Basically, I just want Derek's time and attention for myself and my kids. But for now, I guess I can share and I really am grateful for the quality man that I married (dang, I was smart).