My dear friends and fellow bloggers,
Please accept my most profound apologies. I have disappeared for months. An event of which was not planned; life has simply run away from me and I have not been able to keep up. For whomever thinks that pastor's lives calm down in the summer, we have quickly learned that this is not the case. One might assume that, given the fact that a church "year" mimics that of a school "year", summers would be that time of quite and recuperation. I, a now "seasoned" (of two years) pastor's wife, can tell you without any hesitation that it is not, nor ever will be.
I wrote the above MORE than a month ago. Oh dear....
Now that the end of crazy summer has come and gone. Then came the start of the "new" year at church. This involved a lot of things for us this year. Not only was it just getting a special lunch planned for the first Sunday after labor day, but Joseph started going to "school" the week before, I spent full days worth of hours at the church doing all sorts of stuff. And now we're still just getting into our new fall schedules.
This is also going to be compounded by the fact that I am starting not one, but 2 new part time jobs this week.
Yes, I know...crazy! But it actually all works out PERFECTLY.
So, since I've been bad and haven't written and desperately want to get back into it. I'm going to have to accept the fact that I have to give you all readers digest versions of what's happened and what's going on. Don't be surprised though if you see a more "full length version" of an event that happened months ago appearing in the next few weeks of blogging.
Summer included:
A short road trip vacation to Maryland to see one of my best friends from High School get married on the beach just before sunset. Jon and I drove down, stayed two nights in a room with a 180 degrees of ocean view. Hammered crab out of its shell for dinner and drank a lot of Yeungling. And drove home. My mom stayed with Joseph.
A MAJOR makeover to the church's library. Which included real cleaning, a lot of painting and reorganizing books. Add in the new outlets and throw pillows and it looks fabulous! Thanks to lots of help from my dear friend Flavia!
Speaking of Flavia...she is a real estate lawyer who has been working for herself for several years. She has a 4 year old (Marco) and a 2 year old (Matteo). She was hired for a temporary job to work on a case due to her skills in being fluent in Portuguese. She asked me if I would be able/willing to watch her youngest a couple days a week while she took this job, as she couldn't get him in any more days at the boy's daycare. I said "Yes!" She paid me and it was great! Matteo and Joseph get along so well as they are very close in age. And the little extra money felt like a burden was lifted. I didn't have to talk myself out of getting something from the grocery store until "payday". It was great! This was for 3 weeks in July. About 2 weeks later, she interviewed for another "temporary" job at a different firm, much closer to home. This was a 30 day contract while the firm decided who they wanted to bring on permanently full time to replace a lawyer that left. She was hired for the 30 days, again I watched Matteo 2 days a week, and at the end she was offered exactly what she was going to ask for as a full time lawyer. She works 4 days and I will be watching her boy(s) 2-3 times a week (we're still figuring out if taking both boys will work well, or if it's better to just have Matteo).
In amidst all of that, I found a job posting at the library. I had an interview, almost a month later, finally got a call back. At this point I had already decided to watch Falvia's boy(s), so my "proposed schedule" for the library job was shot. When I finally did talk with the director, she said "I think this might work better for you. It's not much of a job, but it would be a 3 hour shift once a week and then other shifts sortof on-call." If they need help, they'll offer me when they need help and I"ll be free to accept or decline. This is exactly what I was hoping to convince them to give me. It's perfect!!!!!! I went in this afternoon (yes, I wrote some of this blog earlier today) for an hour of training in the children's room.
I know that sounds like not so much for 4 months of silence...but trust me, it was crazy.
Consider this my return to blogging. If I'm bad again, feel free to yell at me.
