"" show me what its like, to dream in black and white...""

doing: in between laundry loads
feeling: a little tired but doing okay

this morning i got up and went to swim. out of all the exercising i can do, the only thing that makes me feel like i'm actually getting anything out of it is swimming. so i found out a way and got a pass to the rec. now i just need to make myself get in the habit of it! i'm planning to go 3 times a week. hopefully someday i can go every day though! that would be great!

i love swimming because everything is tuned out. although i do wish i could get some music going, its nice to just tune completely out! i'm only left with my thoughts, and when i'm in the water i have an easier time shutting those down too. you don't hear anyone around you so its less distracting.

i love that first 50-75 yards (for me right now thats about as far as i can get!), when it just feels like you are flying through the water. nothings choppy, my muscles arent tired yet, and i feel like i could go forever! of course i cant... i get to 100 yards and my muscles are on fire! oohh how i wish i was still in shape like i was in high school! where's Post and his crazy workouts when i need him!?


so, we're still trying to sell our house. and we've now buried a statue of St. Joseph in our front yard, facing our house, under our "for sale" sign. i've gotten numerous snickers from people when i told them i was going to do this. mostly it was followed by the comment, "isn't that superstition?" to which i reply, "no, its faith!" we've been trying to sell for 2 years so any little bit will help! and i'm sure St. Joseph is thrilled about being buried in peoples yards upsidedown... so he MIGHT just take an extra look at our house now! :)

last night my Mom came over and helped me weed my flowers in the front yard. yes, they get overgrown.... and yes i dont realize it until its too late, and yes i dont go out as much as i should. but we cleared them all out! it actually looks a little bare! hehe! and Matt and i talked and we have a new plan for the front. re-planting some flowers, re-doing our rock area. hopefully it will cut down on weeds and make the front look a little nicer. Mom says before she leaves, "just make a big plan to move and re-do stuff and the house will sell!"

as for the rest of the days plans. Ethan will be spending the day at the Russell's house with his cousins and i will be sorting through my last weeks worth of notes and books! i also have to sit down and make some lists of what i want to do this year, what i have to do this year, and who i need to talk to about all of this! i sorta wish it wasn't August already... i feel like i always need more time to plan these church things! of course,... i've had all summer to get the start of the year planned... but it just goes by too darn quickly!

now, another load of laundry and getting my kiddo to clean up some toys!


he gives me the best smiles when hes 1-dirty or 2-holding something odd in front of him!


hes too funny when he sleeps! i thought having my suitcase still on the bed would deter him from going in there... apparently not.

""Mommie, i like the Bible stories""

good morning world!

the title is a quote from my little man! makes me a proud Mama!

today its 8:08 when i'm finally up and moving. i dont have to make it in time for breakfast, i'm not showered, and i didn't have to deal with a power outage! its wonderful to be home!!!

yesterday was the longest day of the conference. we still got some good information and had some good discussion. but they could see that we were all burnt out! so it was a slower day with not too much going on. the conference ended at 3:00 and sadly, i had to get in my taxi by 3:15. so i had to say quick goodbyes and rush out. that was sort of okay because i started to get teary! i made some good friends, i know i keep saying that, but i really did! we all just connected on both a spititual level and a "were all going through the same thing" level.

its funny because the 2 girls i spent the most time with were from Mississippi so now my inner monolog has a sounther accent! i also spent time talking with Father Dan who came over from England. so that british accent keeps coming up too! Father Dan is a hoot too! hes so quick and witty, we laughed at him SO much!

after saying my goodbyes i hopped in the taxi. luckily i had another lady, Virginia, that had a flight shortly after mine. so we rode together. the 12 mile trip to the airport takes about 45 minutes..... and thats one big fat reason i dont want to live in a big city anymore! once i got there getting through security was quick and easy and i just had about 20 minutes to wait to get onto my flight. the flight home was cool because we flew most of the way up above the clouds! they just surrounded us and it was so awesome! i had turned my phone totally off, otherwise i'd have a sweet picture to show you. :(

i got back into Des Monies about 7:00. Matt and Ethan were there to greet me! after stopping off to grab me some dinner we headed back to home sweet home! it was so nice to sleep in my own bed! however, i don't miss having to share a bed with someone!!

Matt got up early to go help Bri Guy's mom roof her garage. they didnt do much of anything yesterday because of the "chance of rain". which sucked because yesterday would have been a perfect day for it! hopefully they'll get a good chunk done today!

other good news is that we have 2 showings of our house within a week! i got a call that someone wanted to come and look at it Friday morning, and then another that someone will come Monday afternoon! yeay!! Lexie(one of the southern girls) told me that if you bury, upsidedown, a statue of St. Joseph in your backyard its supposed to help you sell your house..... ssooo i need to find myself a St. Joseph statue!

Ethan and i are going to take a walk to see how the roofing is going!
have a great Saturday!

""when i wake in the morning, give me Jesus""

good morning all!

today i was pleasantly surprised when my clock read 6:35, instead of 5:53. one reason might be is that i was up until 11:30 last night and had a beer and a glass of wine. either way, i slept "in" sorta. and it was good!

obviously i'm blogging this morning because i crashed hard last night! my day yesterday was just as good as the others! we are all hitting the overwhelmed point now though. we have so many notes, ideas, and things to think about that we are all about to just shut down! but one more day of information-we think we can squeeze it in!

one very nice and totally awesome thing is that we've gotten a LOT of free material! St Marys Press and Ave Maria Press are 2 leading publishers in the Christian book writing world. they have, along with our speakers, sent numerous books as gifts for us! i seriously have like 7 books and 2 DVD's that i'm bringing home! PLUS 2 free 1-year subscriptions to online materials! HOW COOL IS THAT!??!!?

one thing that IS overwhelming is looking at reading materials from these publishers and deciding what to purchase. i'm spoiled in that fact that i can basically just call up Pat and he'll tell me what he thinks is the best and what he's seen work for others. since not everyone has a Pat like me, this is nice because now we have these new materials to read over, and if they are good then we can purchase more to use for our parishes!

Eric from Out of da Box productions did a little presentation for us last night. they are a production company-duh-that has written and produced a bunch of films that are relevant to Christian learning. some of them are super funny and some are super insightful! they just came out with a new DVD and the name is CateQUIZem. its, as you guessed, a quiz on catechises! this one just happens to cover the 4 things that OUR books have been covering over the last 4 years! (Divine intervention?) so he was nice enough to give us this dvd, plus 2 others AND a free subscription to their membership that will give us access too ALL of the videos they've ever filmed! we can then download these and use them in our parish as we wish!


on our evening break, before dinner, me and Kim and Lexie(2 girls i've been hanging out with from Mississippi) took a walk around the grounds here. they have a bunch of buildings, including the church buidling, and a couple ponds, a bridge, walking path. its simply beautiful! and it was so very nice yesterday(mid 80s) that we couldnt not be outside! after our walked we met up with Dominik(i know i didnt spell that right) and chatted with him for awhile. we then kept seeing girls with lacross gear walking past us. so we wandered over there because we were all interested in lacross! Dom pretended like he knew a bunch about it, but then kept saying "sure, i'm sure thats what its called!" so we talked to a couple of the girls and one very nice mother and found out a little more! if you've never seen lacross played its amazing. we only got to see them practice a little, but that was still crazy! Lexie and i wated to ask the girls if they'd teach us how to throw with the sticks,... but they were getting ready for some championship game, so we figured we shouldnt bother them. these girls were between 6th and 9th grades! i told Dom i hoped Ethan played lacross. it should be in Iowa by the time he's ready to play right!?

well, today is Friday. i'm happy and sad all at once. i get to go HOME today which i'm SO excited about! but i'm sad to have to leave all of my new friends. i've gotten close with quite a few of them! but we are getting everyone emails, facebooks, ect, so i know we'll all be keeping in close contact! its a wonderful feeling to know that you'll hear from more than just 1 person after leaving something like this!

bad news, i have to pack up all my crap and check out before 10..... so i have to find something to do with my suitcase so i dont have to take it to class!!

one more day then i'll be Iowa bound once again!

"" come on you can, count me in! ""

title song: Count Me In by Leeland

once again, its 10:53-ARG! i didnt realize it was THAT late!
i'm such a old fogie... i need to be in bed at 9 or i'm in trouble. ah well., i'll survive!

today was again great! we do a lot of laughing here, and thats wonderful! our speakers have been awesome! they give good information, they tell heartwarming stories, and they have a wonderful way of making us crack up!

we had 3 great speakers today. Ela Milewska does our opening prayer and worship. she then talked to us about re-thinking some adolecent catechesis. she had some great ideas and information. some different approaches to things that i hadnt thought of. and she had us make lists of questions, pertaining to different categories, so that whatever we didn't touch on in these 2 days she would get to talk about on Friday. so thats great! at least we'll all get our questions answered!

we then had Mike Patin - Part 1. Mike is SO funny! he told some amazing stories that had me tearing up, and then he'd yell out something to wake us all up! he mainly talked about how to get and hold on to volunteers. because, we all need volunteers!! its just that getting them is hard. he talked about approaching them with a different .... way, i guess you'd say. picking out their personal stregnths and asking them in a new way to use those to help our youth grow in their faith.

i wish i'd brought a highlighter so every night i could have gone through my notes to highlight what i really wanted myself to remember! i'll have to just do that as soon as i get back!

our final speaker was Michael Novelli. he talked to us about Storytelling. yes, its exactly as it sounds! he has this awesome approach to scripture!! if you've ever sat down and read the Bible, its a little daunting... and sometimes really hard to understand even what you are reading. he's taken parts-stories-and reworded them in a way thats easy to understand. tonight we did an excersise and he used the Creation Story - but only up until the part where God created Eve, nothing past that. no snake, no tree, no fruit. so he had us get comfy, close our eyes or whatever we wanted to do so we could stay focued on him. he told this story - it took about 5 mintues or so maybe - and then asked us a few questions about it. we discussed this short story for 45 minutes! it was amazing to hear everyone talking about what they saw in their heads as he read this story. what we never noticed before about the story and what we felt when we heard it! everyone had different answers, but in a way they were all sort of the same.

i'm really excited about this particular excersise because i immediatley thought of an adult that would be so perfect to run sessions on these! Michael told us he ran numerous sessions using this sort of storytelling and the kids really got into it! its something about a story that makes people relate to it easier and better.

okay, its after 11. i could write much more but i really need my sleep! otherwise i'll be useless tomorrow!!
night everyone!

"" holy, holy, holy ""

doing: getting ready for BED!
feeling: great!!

after all the apprehension about this week. the not wanting to go, then the can't wait to get there, then missing my boys... i'm here and i'm glad i came!

its a smaller group that we have here, about 30 including the speakers/putter oners of the whole thing. so its been really nice to actually get to talk with everyone! i think theres only a couple people that i haven't actually talked to yet. since this is a conference for NEW youth ministers, everyone is - you guessed it - NEW! therefore, everyone is in the same boat as me. most of us are less than 3 years into the job, and all of us are still learning a LOT about it! its been awesome to make some new friends and talk to people that know what and where i'm coming from. i've met people from D.C. to Southern Cali. and everyone is eager to share their resources and their experiences with anyone who wants or needs the help.

its the end of the first day, we've only been together since 2:00 this afternoon and already we are getting along wonderfully! i know i'm going to come home with new ideas for the Youth Group and for myself. but also with some new friends, faces and email addresses!

its now 10:41, and since breakfast is at 8, and only 45 minutes long, i should go to bed....so i dont sleep through it!

good night friends!

"" your grace is enough..""

doing: relaxing in my hotel room
where: Chicago, well-a suburb of Chicago.
feeling: worn out already. and ready to get this shin-dig going!


this week..... will be different. i am currently sitting in Techny Towers (www.technytowers.org) in Techny, IL. a suburb of Chicago. i am getting ready to attend the Institute for New Youth Ministers. since i just signed on for my 2nd year of Youth Minister at our church this turned out to be the perfect convention for me to attend.

honestly at this very moment my heart isnt in it. i know that once everything gets started God will tap me on the head and i'll get into it! but after the long trip to get here i'm happily just sitting on my bed!

i am, however, looking forward to it. this last year has been a huge adjustment for my family, for me and for the church. for my family because now i'm always doing either photography stuff or church stuff. and for most of the church stuff i'm asking for Matt to help me! for me because, well, i've never done this before! theres lots of expectations that i dont feel like i'm meeting and lots of things i feel like i need and should be doing. and for the church because they havent had a true Youth Minister for quite some time now - and our High School program hasnt been that great for a number of years, until just a few short years ago.

i'm looking forward to this conference because i know it will give me some more ideas and some different approaches and perspectives to look at things. i have a great group of people helping me, but i dont always want to be relying on them. i like to bounch my ideas off of people, but again-i dont always want to be doing that. so hopefully these 4 days will gear me up for a new year and fill my brain with new ideas. i'm hoping to get some ideas on how to get more kids involved in activities as well as our Sunday night gatherings.

i'm finally starting to hear people coming into rooms now. i was afraid i was the only one here! hehe! check in has starte(at noon) and i've had 2 poptarts today to eat. i might head on over there and check out the vending machines...yeah they dont start feeding us until tonight.

i'm already missing my Ethan. Matt will make fun of me but i dont care. i haven't ever been so far away from him for so long! sure Winter Convention is a Friday-Tuesday, but its only in Des Moines. i'm in Chicago now! i'm sure he'll be an angel for Matt(he usually is... then hes a monster for me). and i'm looking forward, already, to seeing his face when they come pick me up at the airport on Friday night! (see that Matt... SEE MY SON AT THE AIRPORT!!) ;)

i'm going to go see if i can meet some people!
adios!

"" love will hold us together, make us a shelter to weather the storm ""

doing: just got up. needing to do laundry but i'm just not ready to yet.
feeling: hungry!!
listening to: Ethan's cartoons


this week started out with a bang! well, okay not so much a bang as a 'i need to drag myself out of bed AGAIN'

we had a super long/hot and awesome wedding on Saturday up by Waterloo. 2 hour drive. we left eary and got home late. but all in all it was a great day!

on Sunday i took 3 high school girls to Catholics In Action. this retreat is held once a year in various places. this year we were in Iowa City. i'd never been to this retreat- not even in my high school time!- so it was a new experience for me all around! i wasn't quite sure what to expect. we left about 7:30 and started our exhausting 3 days! for this retreat each church group is scheduled to go to numerous different places around the city to help with yard work, painting, organizing and any other tast they find for us. the idea is to help others in need. pretty basic concept! and always a wonderful experience for both youth and adults combined! sometimes we get so held up on our own problems that we forget that there are actually people out there that do have it worse off than us. and that helping those people, even with the smallest of tasks, will put a smile on their faces and make us feel good about ourselves.


our group had some good places given to us. we did manual labor at all of them, but that was okay with us! we helped paint the Community Center on Sunday - everyone did that the first day.


painting


Monday we went to the Neighborhood Center and helped weed their garden and haul mulch. after that we got to spend some time with their daycare kids!


Alissa and Mandi with some of the day care kids

in the afternoon we went to the Ronald McDonald house and helped them do some cleaning and organizing and baking yummy treats!


Maria baking a cake!


on Monday evening we gathered again with everyone for a picnic and bonfire!


the girls with their friends from Davenport

finally it was Tuesday. we were all exhausted! up early, working all day in the heat and then to bed late is hard on you! but Tuesdays site is what we were excited about! a Habitat House! and since we were all over 16 we got to do the fun stuff like using hammers and saws and things! they had plenty for us to do and we could have easily been busy all day! we only worked from about 8:30 to noon though. we did some siding, cut some foam insulation and a few other smaller tasks. it was great!


i cut a super straight line! thats my tough face

we had mass on Tuesday afternoon and then we all headed home. we were very excited to go home, but also excited about the ideas and possibilities that the weekend brought us. they had us all brainstorm ideas that we could bring back to our own parish community. the girls came up with some great ideas that we are excited to get into action!

goal for next year... to have 6 kids going instead of 3!

"" your grace is enough, your grace is enough for me..."

last week, Nov 19-22, i had the privilege to attend NCYC (National Catholic Youth Conference) in Kansas City. we've been planning this pilgrimage since January. we took 7 youth and 4 adults. there was planning-oh the planning-and fund raising OH my!

in the end it came down to 4 days and it was amazing!

the kids that we took hadnt ever been to a retreat of this volume before, and actually neither had the adults! i hadn't ever been to NCYC, we went to Rome instead..... and since this time i was "in charge" it was new for everyone!!

we had a wonderful group! not too big, everyone listened and was well behaved! we fought the crowds, fought sleep, and scavenged for food! that was the toughest part. the rest was just amazing.

i've been trying to think of how exactly to put into words what we experienced so that you will KNOW. but i can't. i just can't.
the Sprint Center was where we had opening and closing ceremonies each day. this arena holds thousands. its built for concerts and basketball games and such. we packed it FULL! then there was an overflow of a couple hundred that were down the street in the Convention Center. there was somewhere around 22thousand in attendance!
its always a shock to see SO many people loving the same thing that you do. if you go to an Aerosmith concert or an accounting convention! either one, its fun and easy to talk about the thing that you love. but to come together, with that many people, to talk about and praise God... is a different level! this is a high school retreat. so the majority of these in attendance were high school age, that makes it even better!

there were keynote speakers, MC's, bands and more! the bands were my favorite part! plus we all got to stand and wave our hands around and clap to the beat! its the best!

i have a feeling i could go on and on... but i'll just say again. it was a wonderful experience. i just pray that one of my youth came back with that "oh WOW"! (mine was Rome... that was my "oh WOW"!)

NCYC is in Indianapolis in 2011. AND World Youth Day (which is what my Rome was) is also in 2011 in Madrid, Spain. i have 4 sophmores that are telling me YES, we are going to Spain... eekkk!!
i'm ready!!


http://ow.ly/FGlO <-- Matt Maher Band.

Matt Maher is one of my new fave guys! he took time out of his tour to come and perform for us! he was amazing! this isn't the whole thing, but it will show you his song and also a glimps of the Sprint Center!!

"" rollin thunder, pourin rain...."

doing: work. working on my backup of wedding albums.....
listening to: whatever Pandora station Jeff left on. its got lots of Metallica on it.. i'm not too impressed
feeling: like crap! the soda i wanted is giving me a headache instead of an energy boost!

the weekend was good. we watched the Hawks game at our house on Saturday! i was really very happy that we got to stay home! mostly because the game was right in Ethan's nap time, so he go to actually take one. but also because i just really wanted to be home! i'm glad that we are basically a mobile group so we can watch together on almost all Saturdays! plus our tv freaking rocks!! HD Hawks?! hells yes!!

i got to do lots of nothing this weekend which i enjoyed. i like my down time. and i also enjoyed it more because i didn't have a pile of laundry to do and our house was basically clean! Matthew was super nice and cleaned and vacuumed both our cars out. mine needed it bad bad bad! i swear i kept meaning to do it, but then ended up working on something else!

Sunday at mass there was a blessing for those of us that are traveling to KC this week for NCYC! of course that involved me, since i'm going... duh. but also two of my senior girls gave a Stewardship Talk at mass. they did an EXCELLENT job! i was truly blown away! and seriously, if that talk didn't hit a couple high schoolers into re-thinking the youth group "thing" nothing will. excellent job!

Monday was a crazy day for me. well, not terribly crazy, but i had a specific list of things that i needed to get done regarding NCYC. i'm quite nervous about this trip mostly because i'm in charge! sure i've been to events like this before, but always as a pilgrim... not at the leader of the flock! of course, there are 21K people that will be there... so its not like we can get too lost or anything! its just keeping track of kids and keeping on our schedules. the kids we're taking are good kids, so i'm not really worried about them at all. i'm just worried about the schedule more than anything.

in the end i know it will be a fun weekend! i'm hoping that the kids come back with some sort of fire in their hearts! this should be a deep experience for some-if not all-of them!


my day started out decently. i'm still tired, but thats cause i stayed up late to watch E!'s Top 10 Vampires we Love! hehe! yes, i'd like to become a vampireologist! RobPat was #1! and why wouldn't he be?! Edward is pretty much the hottest fictional character EVER!

to that comment..... i am MISSING the opening of New Moon! i'm SO bummed!!! especially since this movie has like 100% more hype than Twilight! there are specials galore, red carpets and midnight showings.... that i won't get to partake in. some of my girls from church, that are going to NCYC, are super bummed about it too! we might have to plan a matinee trip when we get back to town on Sunday!


other than all of that my week is going to be pretty boring. i hope that i can get plenty of sleep, i remember to pack my underwear in my suitcase and i dont freak out before Thursday comes! i'll be golden!

well, back to work for a bit. its almost 4! i have an order and then i get to go home! i'm excited to go home! i want my sweatpants and a hot cup of tea!

"" drink... to all that we have lost. mistakes we have made... everything will change.....""

doing: at the church working for the day
feeling: tired... i almost fell asleep at lunch! that could have been bad!
listening to: VH1 online radio. my Pandora ran out of free time... yeah don't get me started on that. so i have to wait until tomorrow for my "free 40 hours" to start over!

i'm working really hard to get myself organized and "in the know" for this Youth Minister job. its really hard!! i keep looking at all these emails about events, all the paperwork, the schedules, the payments, ect, ect, and it boggles my brain as to how one single person can coordinate all this stuff!! i know its harder for me because i came into it when things are already happening around me. NCYC(National Catholic Youth Conference) is a big event in KC in November. well the first meeting was held in January. so i'm just taking over this planning with only the "im' a chaperons" knowledge. so again, i'm trying to get myself organized and stuff, but its almost too much.
there are lots of people around me that are helping with things! but its the fact that they've been doing it for a year or more and they know that this paper needs to be signed by this weekend and mailed in.... but they remind me about it on monday of that week.
i feel like i'm scrambling around for things, and i'm so afraid to miss something!
the smaller stuff i'm okay with, the KickOff party which is just grilling and games i'm good with! its the big stuff like the Youth Rally and NCYC that have me freaked out!!
i'll be fine, i know. i just need to get super organized (yes, i hear you all laughing cause that's NOT me)!

i'll get it together! i got some planners for this year and next to have on me at all times! i'm going to get some colored tabbys so i can start this color coding of things! i have to get a headstart on that because once Ethan starts school and sports and things i'm going to be lost!


in other news. i love this weather! if Fall was here forever i'd be happy happy happy!!

we did family pictures last night at Stalzer's studio. Kenzie and John were awesome! adn with 3 little ones i'm sure they-mostly Kenz-were exhausted afterwards!! but the kids ended up being really good! even after Ethan's meltdown, BEFORE the pictures even started! i'm so excited to see them! like, i wanted to go to work today and work on them!! i know everyone else in the world has to wait for theirs...so i'm not getting too out of hand. its just worse for me because i know they are on a card sitting on my desk just waiting!! yup, i'll be doing that in the morning!! haha!

i need to get some more work done. bad part about this laptop(at the church) is that i can't print from it. thats really what i need to do is print a few things. i might have to go find someone with a printer!!

have a good week! i might go home soon and take a nap... just so i can keep functioning!

"take this down Smee"

doing: getting a little work done
feeling: all around iffy
listening to: Ethan playing and Peter Pan running on my laptop (hence the title)

nothing terribly exciting has happenend lately. today were "sick" becuase Ethan woke up last night and was sick. it was great. i was NOT looking forward to my first puking experience. breast milk puke is MUCH different than solid food puke. i'm sure you all love that image! :) so Ethan needed a day off from the sitters and apparently i did too... we're at work right now because he's not even close to acting like he's sick! and i NEED to get some work done! (hence why i'm blogging!! haha!) i'm just working on some orders.

i've been drinking soda this week.... i dont know why but it tastes SO good! i've had two ENTIRE mt.dews. i never drink a whole can. and right now i'm on my third. i need to stop that.... but soda as opposed to water sounds so much better!!

we're having an open house one week from today. i'm still praying that the rigth person falls in love with the damn place so i can be rid of it forever! i'm just so grouchy because it seems like we'll never get it sold! fix it up you say? we don't have the money. burn it down you say? interesting....... ;) the cleaning and fixing tiny things needs to be done this weekend so we are ready for this open house deal. its so much work to clean.... i'm lazy, you know that!

i guess my biggest news is about church. i've been helping for about a year now with the Youth Group at my church (high school kids) and the church has been on an ongoing search for a Youth Ministry coordinator. of course all the adults have been telling ME that i should take the job. but with Ethan and my real job, working saturdays and all that i just couldnt wrap my head around it.
we recently had a meeting with the youth and asked them to sort of write a requirement sheet for this new YM. they came up with some great stuff! but the thing that got me thinking(again) was our group came up with and idea for a Committee to be in place for the YM. this means that there would be a list of people already in place to head service projects and teach classes and drive and on and on. and then God tapped me on the head and i realized this is what i would need! i could coordinate, but i would have never been able to do all the other stuff! so if i could walk in and have a great set of people willing to help out with all the extra (and fun) stuff then i'd be set! i honestly don't know why i didnt think of it before!!

so i thought hard about it, talked to Matt about it, and prayed about it. Matt was suprisingly on boared right away! it was really nice! and i've decided that its something that i would really love to do. it'll be hard to balance my life and then two demanding jobs... but my life is already so un-balanced that maybe this will somehow help! who knows! i just know that i think i'll be good at it., i hope i'll be good at it! and everyone is so excited that i'm considering it!

they don't have everything finalized as far as the job description yet, and they have to offer it to the parish first. but basically if nobody else comes forwards that wants it, its pry pretty much mine.


its almost nap time.... for Mommy and Ethan! so i should finish up my work and head out.

have a good one! :)