Life

Life for me seems to be going in a million different directions. On one hand, there's work...this aspect of life is going pretty good, and isn't keeping me TOO busy. Since inventory a couple weeks ago, when I was putting in MANY more hours, life has slowed down and I'm back down to two/three half days a week. I enjoy work, and when there's so much to do, it's a nice break from life. I can just head to work and organize their paperwork for a few hours and then come home and feel organized, even if the house is a mess and I have twenty different things that I need to get done before winter.

Nathan is still enjoying youth. It will always keep us busy...as long as we're youth pastoring anyway. Yup, it will ALWAYS keep us busy! We just had a youth retreat last weekend and we both came home tired from it, but I also think it went well. I'm not much for youth retreats, especially ones that happen when it's less than 20 degrees outside, but as far as youth retreats go, it went pretty well. The youth had fun and we had a great speaker, so overall it was a success.

We are also STILL in the process of putting new siding on our house. It was been going since the weekend before Labor day long. We're mostly done the front though, so once that's done, I'll be ok with parking the project for winter and continuing in spring. I'm REALLY looking forward to getting all of the siding off of our driveway so that we can actually park the car with all four wheels on the concrete! Plus, I think it will do alot for my stress level to not see that stack every time I leave our house or come back.

In the back of my mind (rapidly coming to the forefront though) is a trip to California that my family is planning to take from November 10-18. It will be my parents, my sister, my brother, and Nathan and I. My uncle surprised my parents with the offer of their 2007 air miles and the use of their timeshare condo this spring, so now the trip is almost here! I can't wait to get away for a week! I'm really feeling like I need it.

I also feel like Nathan and I need to just get away together. It's relaxing to get away with the whole family (and I am looking forward to our trip VERY much) but there's something much more relaxing - perhaps less exciting - about taking off with just my husband to a place where we can forget about the rest of the world and just be us. No phone calls. No work. No expectations or visitors or adjenda! Nothing but us together. Mmm...that's what I really feel like I need right now. Oh well. Hopefully we'll be able to take off in the new year sometime! I don't really see it happening before then!

But yeah, that's life for us right now. We're busy and I'm getting tired. But that's life. I'll get my second wind and then two weeks from now, I'll be relaxing in Cali with my family! Whew. Sounds good.