We've been busy busy, as you can tell from the lack of recent posts. Later this week I'll upload pictures and do a post on our trip to see Patrick and Kim, but for now I just wanted to throw a few things up:
It's hard to keep track of everything as it happens- my journals have been super sparse lately. We've both been trucking along in school and work; Kevin is finishing the second bench for our kitchen table, among other things, and I have my first morning back to my old schedule at work. The last two weeks I've been working full time subbing for a teacher who was in Mexico. It will be nice to have that paycheck come in, but I'm more and more mystified that anyone could do that all the time! It's hard enough trying to keep up our tiny little house, relationships with family and friends, personal sanity and time with God. I absolutely cannot imagine adding in a child or two on top of that schedule! But it was good for the time being. Now I'm determined to not lose the momentum I have of keeping busy, but excited to channel the energy into other priorities that have been neglected, especially recently.
My class started two weeks ago, and it's going pretty good. There was some confusion at first about how many students were officially registered and our room, but I think it's all settled now. We discussed peak oil the first week, the transition concept the second week, and this friday we'll be talking about food and medicine. We'll be meeting in our house, since we all hate the room they put us in on campus, at 6:30.
It's been great to spend the last few weekends with my family in Bremerton. Hanging out with Iris is always super fun, and every time I see her she's a little bigger. She has the most delightful personality I've seen in a three year old, and better words than most of them. Easter was nice to relax with family, in spite of the brother situation.
Our application for the position in Japan is underway somewhat: I've distributed most of the reference forms and have started gathering information.
It seems like a lot has happened, and I can't really process it all yet. Daddy gave me a copy of Randy Alcorn's Heaven after the reception when his brother died a month ago. I'd been thinking about heaven it seems like quite a bit before that, so it's been really helpful to read through that and organize my thoughts, have all the references in one place, and just let the vivid images sink in. I finished that this morning while Kevin was journalling, and it's been encouraging.
That's the summary.
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