Brandon is in full swing at camp now. He has a great (if slightly smaller than he'd like) staff, especially his program staff this summer. That has been a huge blessing to have those few people that he can trust to take control on a few things here and there. Not that that means he is working any less! He is once again going in at 8 a.m. and not returning until...well, I don't really know when he comes home, I am usually long gone into dream land.
The good news is that apparently no one told my professors this summer that this quarter is relaxed and fun, like I was told! I have already cried twice this first week of class, once actually in a class, for no apparent reason other than the stress is breaking me down, finally. On top of school stress I have also continued to receive "we're sorry but the position has been filled" notices across the board for the jobs I have applied for. There are still a few out there, but it is definitely beginning to look like I will be substituting next fall. I'll be honest, that makes it a little tough to get excited about writing papers about my classroom procedures! Oh, yeah, I started this paragraph saying this was all good news...it is, kind of, I don't notice that Brandon works until the wee hours of the morning because I am doing homework and then falling into bed in an emotional exhausted haze.
I am looking forward to reading this in a month when I am done and realizing that it wasn't all as bad as it looked at this point!
Keep us in your thoughts and prayers and we try to decipher what all of this means for our life over the next year. We are continuing to argue about who "has" to make the decision on where to live, what jobs we will each be doing, and so on and so on.
On a much brighter side here is a picture of me with my new "niece." My good friends Jon and Briana had their baby girl on June 11th, and I got to spend a week visiting them and Connor in Portland before my summer classes started. She is adorable, but the experience definitely left me feeling unprepared for any ideas of motherhood...even a baby as gorgeous and well-mannered as Kadyn made me feel incompetent and glad to not be the one getting up with her all night!
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Awe Kadyn is adorable how ironic is it that our names are so close. Carole you look like a natural. You should be drinking the water like the rest of us. Ha Ha
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