I know I've been terribly lax on my blog. I haven't posted since May! I'll try
to catch up a bit on what I've been doing the last couple of months.
For
the most part I've been busy with school. I took three classes over the summer
again. I hadn't planned on it, but I looked at my transfer options and realized
that I had nearly maxed out how many credits I could transfer over to IU East.
There were a few more Gen Ed classes I needed, so I decided to go ahead and do
them at Ivy Tech this summer so I could transfer this fall. I had put off the
science classes until last, because they all had math prerequisites which I
didn't get finished until this spring. So this summer I took a chemistry class,
a biology class, and another math class. It about killed me. I am happy to say I
still managed A's in all them, but it was a ton of work trying to stay caught
up. I'm still unwinding from the stress of it all.
We didn't do very
much in 4-H this year. I let the kids decide if they wanted to do it or not, but
I told them they were going to have to take initiative to get it done
themselves. I didn't have the time to stand over them and make sure they got
their work done. Joy didn't do any projects, but the others did one each. Jay is
the only one who earned a champion this year. He made a beautiful lamp out of a
lighthouse bird feeder and it's at the state fair now. We'll go see it next
week.
Erick took a job for a few weeks at Fed Ex as a package handler,
but it bothered his elbow too much to continue. We didn't want to undo the
progress he's made from his surgery and waste everything he's gone through, so
he quit that. School will be starting back up again soon so he can go back to
substitute teaching, but what we are really praying for is a job as a teller
that he's applied for. It's in the same town as our church and we've felt for
quite some time that he should work in the community in which he pastors. He's
had two interviews for it, but we don't know yet if he'll get it.
Of
course we don't know how long our church is going to survive, either. It's been
really hard to keep people. We've had visitors who have actually come back, but
they end up going somewhere else where more is happening. When there are so many
other good, thriving churches in town, it's hard to keep people in a church with
a handful of elderly people. We're not quite ready to give up on it yet, but I
don't know what God's plan is for this church at this time.
I can't
think of anything else really important to post about. Oh, we did get some new
furniture the other day. Well, new to us, anyway. Our couches were all torn up,
so we bought some overstuffed leather couches from Craigslist. They are really
nice! We also got a couple of dressers. We put our old couches out on the curb
and someone else took them who didn't have any furniture and were happy to take
our old ones. We were just going to throw them out. I feel kind of bad that
someone is so bad off they are happy to take our trash.
I'll try to stay
more caught up on my blog. I'm only taking four classes this fall, so it
shouldn't be as difficult. They are all journalism-type classes, too, so no more
math or science! Woohoo! Well, eventually I will have one more I need to take,
but not this semester. I also will need one more semester of Spanish.
Today I'm going to be working on getting together the school schedule
for the kids. I've already done Jay's. He's in high school this year. It's hard
to believe I have a high schooler now. All of the kids are school age now, from
1st to 9th grade. This week he's up at my mom and dad's house working on their
barn. They got a lot of money when my great-grandpa died and so they are doing a
lot of remodeling. They are paying him $7.50 an hour to re-side the barn, which
is a pretty good deal for a 14 year old.
I guess I'll go for now. I know
this is a jumbled mess of thoughts, but at least I finally got around to
posting.
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