Beginnings
Fresh Starts
New Life
New Jobs
New Location
Prayer Answered: Even if not in the way expected.... I have a teaching job. A first grade teacher since Aug 25. Relocated from PA to NC. I applied for the job on a whim - a why not - moment. And 5 days later the phone rings. It's a principal who wants to interview me from a job I didn't even apply for but she found and saw my application on the state's database, liked what she saw, and called me! Amazing what God does when we let go.... still learning that one every day.... so she interviewed me on Skype for and an hour and a half on a Thursday (Aug 4) - the weekend was spent calling back and forth with her trying to get in touch with my references - Monday (Aug 8) HR offered me the position...Tuesday (Aug 9) I drove down with all I could get in my car - leaving my husband and 2 puppies behind (still can't believe I lived through that), and started orientation Wednesday (Aug 10)... and lived with a relative about 50 min away from school for about a month. Praise God for technology so I could keep in touch every night with my husband. It was a leap of faith..... Again the "for we walk by faith not by sight," 2 Corinthians 5:7 always jumps out to me......Sept 24 we moved our entire life down here.....God blessed us abundantly....My hubby has a job and starts Monday. That is in a nutshell.... a lot of growing and changing.....melting and molding....refining....
I have a sweet bundle of 20 first graders who come in every morning ready to learn and go, and sometimes lately I have fallen a step or two behind in the wonderful role of teacher.... that new teacher slump....or so it's called....but I know where my strength comes from....not me for sure....so one day at a time. So thankful, so tired, so stressed....so blessed.....
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Friday, May 20, 2011
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Precious Pieces
Let's pretend my last post wasn't from March and that I was indeed just in a writer's block state and couldn't possibly put words to a post because I had nothing to say...ok some of that is true - but it's mostly an excuse.
I have too much homework. I need to put laundry away. Dishes. Dogs. Dust. Clean. . . go ahead and fill in the blanks of things that always need to be done daily, weekly, monthly...and those things I have let be my priority. I have let things of little importance (okay, not the family and the dogs) take away pieces of me so that I am completely distracted from what truly matters. Pieces of my soul that need to breathe.
Sweet relief, joy, contentment, satisfaction, happiness, and maybe some sadness are all wrapped up inside me. They are all there for various reasons, some intertwined. School will be over in 4 days. 4. Is it wrong to count them down? Joy, relief, and satisfaction that I have finally come to this place of being finished (hopefully for a VERY long time), some sadness because there is a part of me that loves learning? I also think there is a bit of anxiety now; I am done, so that now means a full time job of some sort is expected by so many that love me dearly. Anxiety and fear that it will not happen is slowly crowding into my sweet relief that is overflowing because I am soooooo close to being done but sooooo far away from that end goal of a full time teaching job. . .
Why is it that our natural tendency is to worry over the things we have NO control of?
Precious pieces. . . of who I am . . . who God wants me to be. . . who I can be in Him. . . there is still so much room for change and growing and yet here I am in this place of feeling not like myself? Don't worry, I don't understand it either. Hopefully that will be remedied soon, but until it is, here I muddle in the thoughts and prayers -sometime silent- places in my heart that ponder that question above that I think may cause all this unnecessary muddling....
Temporary Fix; reading other friend's blogs, and some I am subscribed to but I do not really know them. It is like letting in some fresh air after the house has been closed up for a whole winter and it's finally warm enough to let in a breeze. I have found two in particular that are especially refreshing and encouraging and words cannot even begin to express my gratitude and thankfulness for their openness in their writing. A la Mode and ChattingAttheSky...thank you.
I have too much homework. I need to put laundry away. Dishes. Dogs. Dust. Clean. . . go ahead and fill in the blanks of things that always need to be done daily, weekly, monthly...and those things I have let be my priority. I have let things of little importance (okay, not the family and the dogs) take away pieces of me so that I am completely distracted from what truly matters. Pieces of my soul that need to breathe.
Sweet relief, joy, contentment, satisfaction, happiness, and maybe some sadness are all wrapped up inside me. They are all there for various reasons, some intertwined. School will be over in 4 days. 4. Is it wrong to count them down? Joy, relief, and satisfaction that I have finally come to this place of being finished (hopefully for a VERY long time), some sadness because there is a part of me that loves learning? I also think there is a bit of anxiety now; I am done, so that now means a full time job of some sort is expected by so many that love me dearly. Anxiety and fear that it will not happen is slowly crowding into my sweet relief that is overflowing because I am soooooo close to being done but sooooo far away from that end goal of a full time teaching job. . .
Why is it that our natural tendency is to worry over the things we have NO control of?
Precious pieces. . . of who I am . . . who God wants me to be. . . who I can be in Him. . . there is still so much room for change and growing and yet here I am in this place of feeling not like myself? Don't worry, I don't understand it either. Hopefully that will be remedied soon, but until it is, here I muddle in the thoughts and prayers -sometime silent- places in my heart that ponder that question above that I think may cause all this unnecessary muddling....
Temporary Fix; reading other friend's blogs, and some I am subscribed to but I do not really know them. It is like letting in some fresh air after the house has been closed up for a whole winter and it's finally warm enough to let in a breeze. I have found two in particular that are especially refreshing and encouraging and words cannot even begin to express my gratitude and thankfulness for their openness in their writing. A la Mode and ChattingAttheSky...thank you.
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Bad blogger
I am such a bad blogger. Only 2 followers. Sigh.
Well - maybe if I was more diligent on updating the thing or had a more interesting life that follower status would change.
Currently - windows are open, dogs are snuggled, coffee is in my cute mug, and I'm avoiding homework...life is good. :)
Wondering how long it will take for Spring to finally show her lovely sunshine for than a day or two in a row.
Well - maybe if I was more diligent on updating the thing or had a more interesting life that follower status would change.
Currently - windows are open, dogs are snuggled, coffee is in my cute mug, and I'm avoiding homework...life is good. :)
Wondering how long it will take for Spring to finally show her lovely sunshine for than a day or two in a row.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Hello World
Traffic crawls
Cell Phone Calls
Talk radio screams at me through my tinted window
I see a little girl, rust red minivan
She's got chocolate on her face
Got little hands, and she waves at me, yeah she smiles at me.
Well Hello World
How you been?
Good to see you my old friend
Sometimes I feel, Cold as steel
Broken like I'm never gonna heal
I see a light, a little hope in a little girl, Well HELLO WORLD
Everyday I drive by a little white church,
its got these little white crosses like angels in the yard
Maybe I should stop on in, say a prayer
Maybe talk to God like he is there
Oh I know he's there, Yeah I know he's there
Well Hello World
How you been?
Good to see you my old friend,
Sometimes I feel as Cold as steel
And broken like I'm never gonna heal
I see a light, a little grace, little faith unfurl.
Well Hello World
Sometimes I forget what living's for, And i hear my life through my front door,
and I'll be there,
oh I'm home again
I See my wife, little boy, little girl, Hello World
Hello World
All the empty disappears
I remember why I'm here
Just surrender and believe
I fall down on my knees
Oh Hello World, Hello World, Hello World
by: Lady Antebellum
A song I have on repeat...I love it.
Cell Phone Calls
Talk radio screams at me through my tinted window
I see a little girl, rust red minivan
She's got chocolate on her face
Got little hands, and she waves at me, yeah she smiles at me.
Well Hello World
How you been?
Good to see you my old friend
Sometimes I feel, Cold as steel
Broken like I'm never gonna heal
I see a light, a little hope in a little girl, Well HELLO WORLD
Everyday I drive by a little white church,
its got these little white crosses like angels in the yard
Maybe I should stop on in, say a prayer
Maybe talk to God like he is there
Oh I know he's there, Yeah I know he's there
Well Hello World
How you been?
Good to see you my old friend,
Sometimes I feel as Cold as steel
And broken like I'm never gonna heal
I see a light, a little grace, little faith unfurl.
Well Hello World
Sometimes I forget what living's for, And i hear my life through my front door,
and I'll be there,
oh I'm home again
I See my wife, little boy, little girl, Hello World
Hello World
All the empty disappears
I remember why I'm here
Just surrender and believe
I fall down on my knees
Oh Hello World, Hello World, Hello World
by: Lady Antebellum
A song I have on repeat...I love it.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Fabulous Fall
Welcome cooler weather! Thank you for some relief! I cherish your refreshing effects, but I do wish you would remain all day and not disappear after 1pm. I truly love waking in the morning and needing to put a sweater on to walk the dogs in the morning. I have even managed to wear some scarfs with outfits for a few days. But I hate dressing in fall clothes only to become overheated in the afternoon because it becomes summer like weather again...Fall please come - you are desperately desired now. I want to wear my favorite things without having to shed layers! Stay cool and remain cool!!
Things I love in fall:
scarfs, boots, tights/leggings, sweaters, cardigans, jeans, apple cider, candles, fall colors, falling leaves, open windows, coffee, pumpkin spice creamer, pumpkins, darker nail polish, thanksgiving; biking, walking, roller-blading without dying of heat stroke, fire pits, camping, walking in the city. . . I could go on for sure, but you get the idea.
Back in the Groove:
Homework again - Class - Subbing -Tutoring - Babysitting our godson Chase - it's on!
Things I love in fall:
scarfs, boots, tights/leggings, sweaters, cardigans, jeans, apple cider, candles, fall colors, falling leaves, open windows, coffee, pumpkin spice creamer, pumpkins, darker nail polish, thanksgiving; biking, walking, roller-blading without dying of heat stroke, fire pits, camping, walking in the city. . . I could go on for sure, but you get the idea.
Back in the Groove:
Homework again - Class - Subbing -Tutoring - Babysitting our godson Chase - it's on!
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