MitchRoss.com
Pastor's Husband, Geek Dad

Hey there fellow PH. If you're here, you probably know that finding forums that discus the quirks we run into are rare. While our wife's job doesn't define us, it does impact us. And boy, does it impact our evenings & weekends.

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Looking for Mitch Ross? I happened to grab "MitchRoss.com" first, yet there are a lot of other people by the same name out on the Internet. Tons of us, actually.

As a service to my fellow Mitch Ross's, here's some of the more notable people who you might be looking for. I plan on keeping this post current with regular updates. At the very least, it may help weary Google travelers to find the right person they're looking for.

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Today on the way home, I got a phone call. The first person on the line was my 4 year old son.

Dada? I wanna play shooting game.
(translation: he wants to play an arcade game called Assault we have in the basement)

So when I got home, we played the game. Moma had to run off to lead a Bible study, so it was guy night at home. My son plays the first few levels, then he insists that I take over.

Today, for the first time in years, I won the last level in our favorite arcade game. I'm not sure who was more excited...

After that, it was bed time. All the way he was talking about "we won!" and "we got the next level!"
At the door to his bedroom, we had a little conversation:

Dada? Am I 5?
No son, you're 4.
Dada, are you 5?
No, I'm 35.
I wanna be 35.
Why?
I wanna be like you.
[[big hug]]

It was hard not to cry.

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Well, lookie there... another Pastor's Husband blog appeared on the net while I wasn't looking.

Go check out "My Wife is a Youth Pastor".

Also check out "Married To A Youth Pastor". Not a PH blog, but there's enough youthful energy over there to make it a fun read.

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A while back I rented a storage unit. There's tons of these places around, so one is as good an another, right? I stored some stuff there. Time went by. I paid on time. Every now and then, I would go to the unit and slowly move stuff back out.

What could possibly go wrong?

Well, one day I dropped by with my truck & trailer, ready to do a major move out from my storage unit.

I pull up to my unit, and... that's odd, that's not my lock. I tried the key anyway, just for kicks. Obviously it didn't work.

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Each year for Mother's day, our church has been doing something cool. We go out on the streets and give out flowers. Each flower has a tag that says "Happy Mother's Day from The Assembly". No invite, no "Are you going to heaven?". On the back of the card, in small print is our address.

This year we gave out 350 flowers in about 2 hours. Groups of people leave them on door handles, and in person to any people we see. One year we stood in a grocery store parking lot, handing them out to cars as they pulled out.

We find that mid-way through each year's give away, people are tracking us down to get a flower!

Of course, about 2% of the people we meet think we're selling them or have other nefarious motives, and turn us down.

The vast majority are surprised and happy. And that's the point.

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Recently my employer had an on-line "health & wellness" program, which included a form where you fill out stats about yourself, and it gives back a proposed diet & exercise plan. I entered my stats. Height, weight, gender, yadda, yadda.

According to the first steps of their analysis, they said that I was moderately active and slightly underweight. That's not news to me - I've never in my life weighed over 145 lbs.

I went through the rest of the on-line process, and it had a plan all laid out for me. The web site was going to change my lifestyle for the better. Change my diet this way, exercise that amount, and after 12 months I should reach my goal of losing 18 pounds.

Wait a minute - I'm underweight, and they want me to lose 18 pounds?!?

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I'd like to welcome another Pastor's Husband Blog to the Internet- Tessellated Geek! With a name that cool, you just know there's good stuff over there.

Check out his site, he's got some good stuff there already. Be sure to check out his "My Wife's Sermons are powered by chocolate" posts.

Right now, that makes just 3 total of us Pastor's Husbands that I know about. As always, if you know of any others, drop me a line. I'd love to link to them!

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