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Oy. I think that's the longest I've gone without an update. Sorry, folks. I'm not dead, I promise!
Summer summary: work for Jess, unsuccessful job hunting for David mixed with temp jobs, swim classes and outdoors and video games for the kids. Didn't travel much at all this summer. Skipped both family reunions, didn't go to Rendezvous... Oh well.
Fall: Kyle is starting second grade. He has a good teacher who is communicating well with us and not letting him have his way, which is good because his behavior issues are continuing. At least he's consistent? Rachel is starting Kindergarten. Her teacher is 70 years old and is teaching because she wants to do so. I think she's nuts, but from what I've seen when I volunteer in her class she's very good at teaching. A lady came up to me in her class today and said, "Oh, you're the mom of the girl who reads already?" I'm both pleased with Rachel and alarmed that her test scores weren't kept secret. Maybe that's a hard secret to keep?
The heater is kicking on for the first time this fall/winter tonight. I'm sad the sunlight is fading. I'm listening to Linkin Park's new album, which is hit and miss for me like the last one was. I finished reading Terry Pratchett's new book The Long Earth. I hope he lives long enough and is coherent enough to finish the series. I am not happy settling into a year of working full time while David substitute teaches. I want him to get a job now! I am impatient to be settled into a place permanently (even though really nothing is permenent). I want out of this job because I live there more than I live at home and I miss working on homework with my kids. But I'm grateful we're housed and fed and relatively safe. David's going to sub for a lady who'll be out for surgery for 6 weeks. He's got to make a teaching unit for a book about the Great Depression. I read part of it. They were starving. There was no work. They would have taken anything. I'm glad we're getting by. I'd like to be more than getting by. Is that too greedy? To want some sort of payoff for all the years of work and stress to put David through school again. To hang pictures on my wall, not knowing if I'm going to move in a month.
I'm trying to be active in church again, even though it's so early in the morning. I think there may be no reconciliation for me between what the church teaches and what I feel. Mostly my issues hinge on gays, and my stance that I think people should find light and love wherever they can. It seems so unfair that a gay person must fight themselves, their beliefs, and everyone else for something that most of us take for granted. Something as simple as companionship.
Eh. I'm not being very coherent.
Anyway, so. I stay with the intention of having a social network of people with good intentions - to help each other and their neighbors. To become more Christlike (a good rolemodel for a person of any religion). I don't know. To try to be a better person.
On a completely unrelated note, I want to go run through the corn maze at night with friends, followed by hot chocolate. And possibly pie. The corn maze is open now.
Summer summary: work for Jess, unsuccessful job hunting for David mixed with temp jobs, swim classes and outdoors and video games for the kids. Didn't travel much at all this summer. Skipped both family reunions, didn't go to Rendezvous... Oh well.
Fall: Kyle is starting second grade. He has a good teacher who is communicating well with us and not letting him have his way, which is good because his behavior issues are continuing. At least he's consistent? Rachel is starting Kindergarten. Her teacher is 70 years old and is teaching because she wants to do so. I think she's nuts, but from what I've seen when I volunteer in her class she's very good at teaching. A lady came up to me in her class today and said, "Oh, you're the mom of the girl who reads already?" I'm both pleased with Rachel and alarmed that her test scores weren't kept secret. Maybe that's a hard secret to keep?
The heater is kicking on for the first time this fall/winter tonight. I'm sad the sunlight is fading. I'm listening to Linkin Park's new album, which is hit and miss for me like the last one was. I finished reading Terry Pratchett's new book The Long Earth. I hope he lives long enough and is coherent enough to finish the series. I am not happy settling into a year of working full time while David substitute teaches. I want him to get a job now! I am impatient to be settled into a place permanently (even though really nothing is permenent). I want out of this job because I live there more than I live at home and I miss working on homework with my kids. But I'm grateful we're housed and fed and relatively safe. David's going to sub for a lady who'll be out for surgery for 6 weeks. He's got to make a teaching unit for a book about the Great Depression. I read part of it. They were starving. There was no work. They would have taken anything. I'm glad we're getting by. I'd like to be more than getting by. Is that too greedy? To want some sort of payoff for all the years of work and stress to put David through school again. To hang pictures on my wall, not knowing if I'm going to move in a month.
I'm trying to be active in church again, even though it's so early in the morning. I think there may be no reconciliation for me between what the church teaches and what I feel. Mostly my issues hinge on gays, and my stance that I think people should find light and love wherever they can. It seems so unfair that a gay person must fight themselves, their beliefs, and everyone else for something that most of us take for granted. Something as simple as companionship.
Eh. I'm not being very coherent.
Anyway, so. I stay with the intention of having a social network of people with good intentions - to help each other and their neighbors. To become more Christlike (a good rolemodel for a person of any religion). I don't know. To try to be a better person.
On a completely unrelated note, I want to go run through the corn maze at night with friends, followed by hot chocolate. And possibly pie. The corn maze is open now.