No excuses! I just didn't do it. Since Facebook has entered my life I have just been ignoring my blog. It was really just for my anyway. There have been a few times I've thought of something to add. I try and keep Facebook not quite as real as life really is. I just update what we are up to. General comments really. So where does that leave us? We were always a little more real with each other. Not sure who checks in or why they would check in.
Life since February... Subbed a lot this spring. It was good and not so good. I liked subbing for the longer gigs. I could get to know the kids names. It was easier to manage the class. I meet a lot of people. I fretted a lot about a job. There were so many teachers jobs cut this last year. Normally teachers were being hired in March for the next school year. That was not the case this year. I did get hired at Irving but it was not until the last week of school. I had really prepared myself for the worse. I find it is easier to be a pessimist and be proven wrong than the other way around. It's so disappointing and I guess even at this older age I've not really learned to deal with disappointment. So now I teach 3rd grade. I love it. I love the kids and the teachers I work with. I really feel like I'm exactly where Gods wants me to be right now.
The kids. Well there is one with one foot out of high school and one with one foot in high school. Who knew how stressful the senior year could be. Where to go to school? How to pay for school? Which degree is best? Play volleyball or not play volleyball? Makayla would love for someone to tell her this is where she is going and how it will be paid for. I'm not going to do that. So we have spent a lot of time talking about options. I just think we need to get done with this season and then figure out what is going to happen. Hannah has slid right into her freshman year without skipping a beat. She seems to have worked the kinks out of her friendship issues in middle school. She has been playing on the varsity volleyball team. What a pleasure that has been. I never in my wildest dreams thought I would see Hannah and Makayla play on the same team and the same time. I feel like I won the lottery! Sweet baby Jordan is not such a baby anymore. He is only about an inch shorter that the girls now. It's really hard for this mom to see her baby so grown up. He has been showing some interest in girls. Oh my! Along with this new interest comes showers, actually hair styles, some attention to clothes, and even deodorant. All good things! He is still working hard on his Eagle Scout. This spring he went on his ordeal and joined the Arrow of Light. He is still sweet and thoughtful. He still gives me a hug and kiss every night before bed.
Really summing up 8 months of time is hard to do. Where we are now is no where I thought we would be 3 years ago. So many twist and turns. God stretching us. Always showing us He has a plan. He is in charge. He is taking care of us. There are still things I wonder about. I don't question them anymore. I just wonder how they will work out or why it had to happen the way it did. I'm also far enough away from the initial event that the pain has dulled and I love the new path. I don't hope for such a life altering shake up like that anytime soon but I also know if it should ever happen again, we will survive and we may even love the new path.
