(because I needed an excuse to post this cute pic...)
I think it's safe to say I won't be winning any blogging awards. ;)
I think it's safe to say I won't be winning any blogging awards. ;)
So much time between posts. Holy moly. Disgraceful.
Sometimes I find myself writing posts in my head. Thoughts and feelings and the things I really like keeping here. I am sure that the number of people reading my mumbo jumbo has dropped to virtually nothing. But I still hope to write here--and I love to look back and read our life story.
Hmm...so where to start?
Should I start by filling details of our move? The difficult 2 weeks I was without Brandon right after we moved, alone with 5 kids in a new place? Should I start with our trip to Idaho filled with cousins and fun? Or how life was adjusting to Brandon being home almost every day while we waiting anxiously for any word that would allow him to be able to start work?
So much to say...
Perhaps just a brief update today?
Okay.
Here's a little "where are we now" for ya...
Brandon FINALLY got the green light and is working himself into a full schedule.
Amarillo Foot Specialists is a legit company now, and Brandon is the newest podiatrist in town. Word is spreading quickly, and it's strange to hear when people I randomly meet have heard he is coming. Coming upon this opportunity felt, at the time, like our last resort. Remember, he didn't know about it and come to Amarillo till the week Josie was born...6 weeks before we were scheduled to move. And after we had committed to coming here, he got job news/opportunities from a few other places that had fallen through previously. But as we have settled in, and started trying to learn the ropes of what this new job means for us, working with the doctor who will be leaving the practice (he is so generous and helpful, and a complete superstar! We feel VERY blessed to be working with him) it has become incredibly apparent that this was absolutely not God's backup plan for us. This is right. This is for us. And this is the door Heavenly Father was waiting to open after a long, difficult year of waiting for the right opportunity.
School started and I am working my way back to a regular schedule. I've been able to succeed at waking early the majority of the time, but am very grateful Brandon is here many mornings (hallelujah for being done with residency!) just in case I have slept through the alarm . Yep, it's happened a time or two. Getting older and having a baby awake in the night has been hard on my sleep habits! :) I am a creature of consistency and really thrive on knowing what will happen each day. I suppose I am finding myself stuck between the world of not beating myself up when things do go exactly as I want them to in my mind, and accepting that right now it may just be a little bit of flying by the seat of our pants, so to speak. I have started back to WW meetings to lose this pregnancy weight. So far down 12 pounds since I started back. It feels like it's going MUCH slower than it did before, but I am trying to hang in there and just continue to plug along. I know someday I will look back and see how all the little numbers add up, but it's hard not to compare to my last weight loss effort. Just doing what I can. Dealing with schedules and school and getting people here and there, on little sleep. Slowly but surely, I hope to work back into my full-fledged feel good routine.
2 weeks after we moved in, I was called into the Young Women's presidency. This was quite the shock to my system, because I have been in Relief Society callings, with the exception of a short stint in Primary for a bit, for a very long time. It will be a calling I will have much to learn from...this I know. I am grateful for this opportunity, but I have definitely felt inadequate. I really hope to be able to connect with these girls and help it be the complete opposite of the experience I had during my teen years.
I have a million other emotions--and feel like I could write all afternoon.
But this afternoon, I mainly feel grateful. Grateful for a new week, and for opportunities to grow even when it feels hard, and to see God's plan unfold as we continue to move forward.
Happy Sunday.
Should I start by filling details of our move? The difficult 2 weeks I was without Brandon right after we moved, alone with 5 kids in a new place? Should I start with our trip to Idaho filled with cousins and fun? Or how life was adjusting to Brandon being home almost every day while we waiting anxiously for any word that would allow him to be able to start work?
So much to say...
Perhaps just a brief update today?
Okay.
Here's a little "where are we now" for ya...
Brandon FINALLY got the green light and is working himself into a full schedule.
Amarillo Foot Specialists is a legit company now, and Brandon is the newest podiatrist in town. Word is spreading quickly, and it's strange to hear when people I randomly meet have heard he is coming. Coming upon this opportunity felt, at the time, like our last resort. Remember, he didn't know about it and come to Amarillo till the week Josie was born...6 weeks before we were scheduled to move. And after we had committed to coming here, he got job news/opportunities from a few other places that had fallen through previously. But as we have settled in, and started trying to learn the ropes of what this new job means for us, working with the doctor who will be leaving the practice (he is so generous and helpful, and a complete superstar! We feel VERY blessed to be working with him) it has become incredibly apparent that this was absolutely not God's backup plan for us. This is right. This is for us. And this is the door Heavenly Father was waiting to open after a long, difficult year of waiting for the right opportunity.
School started and I am working my way back to a regular schedule. I've been able to succeed at waking early the majority of the time, but am very grateful Brandon is here many mornings (hallelujah for being done with residency!) just in case I have slept through the alarm . Yep, it's happened a time or two. Getting older and having a baby awake in the night has been hard on my sleep habits! :) I am a creature of consistency and really thrive on knowing what will happen each day. I suppose I am finding myself stuck between the world of not beating myself up when things do go exactly as I want them to in my mind, and accepting that right now it may just be a little bit of flying by the seat of our pants, so to speak. I have started back to WW meetings to lose this pregnancy weight. So far down 12 pounds since I started back. It feels like it's going MUCH slower than it did before, but I am trying to hang in there and just continue to plug along. I know someday I will look back and see how all the little numbers add up, but it's hard not to compare to my last weight loss effort. Just doing what I can. Dealing with schedules and school and getting people here and there, on little sleep. Slowly but surely, I hope to work back into my full-fledged feel good routine.
2 weeks after we moved in, I was called into the Young Women's presidency. This was quite the shock to my system, because I have been in Relief Society callings, with the exception of a short stint in Primary for a bit, for a very long time. It will be a calling I will have much to learn from...this I know. I am grateful for this opportunity, but I have definitely felt inadequate. I really hope to be able to connect with these girls and help it be the complete opposite of the experience I had during my teen years.
I have a million other emotions--and feel like I could write all afternoon.
But this afternoon, I mainly feel grateful. Grateful for a new week, and for opportunities to grow even when it feels hard, and to see God's plan unfold as we continue to move forward.
Happy Sunday.
