What's up...

Just a quick "update" (they seem to be popular!!)

• trying hard to get back into the swing of things with school. I had gotten into the extremely bad habit of not getting up until about 7:30 or so, and it's killing me to get up at 5:00 or 6:00am.
• playing SCRAMBLE
• (still) trying to get the things done that I keep putting off. I guess if I stopped "trying" and just DID them, I would be much better off.
• started Awana on Sunday nights. This is Michael's third year doing it, and my first year not doing it. I didn't sign Daniel up this year so he and daddy can have some guy time. I wish I could just drop Michael off and leave without feeling guilty about not helping out somewhere...maybe it will come in a few weeks.
• I am starting tomorrow night with an Alpha course, and I am sooooo excited about it. I got a few friends of mine to sign up for it, too, so it should be great. I mean, it would be great without them, but they are just a bonus!
• playing SCRAMBLE
• I am starting a Beth Moore bible study next Tuesday. I've never done one, and I've heard hers are great, so I'm looking forward to it. It will be good to have homework....maybe that will be the motivation I need in my life to get it together!
• I am really starting to feel like a "grown up"....not that I haven't before, but recently even more so with some major life events (sudden death of a family friend, impending death of another family friend, etc.).
• I am finally making headway in my quest to declutter. My front step was littered with bags for freecyclers today. I have to quit hanging on to "things" that have no apparent value, monetary or sentimental. If I could get rid of my kids for a week or so, I would have it made. They definitely slow me down as while I'm doing one room, they are either in the same room, undoing it, or in another wreaking havoc.
• thinking that I can't wait to get together with my "old" friends again.....20 years is too long...heck, 5 years was too long.
• did I mention, playing SCRAMBLE.

Well, that about sums up what I've been doing, or not doing. In some ways I wish that I had a full time job vs. a part time job. I definitely think that a part time job has it's own unique challenges, especially when it comes to housekeeping. I'm here long enough to tear through it in the morning, leaving a trail of devastation behind me, but not here long enough in the afternoon before the hubby gets home to get rid of the "evidence". At least full time, everyone is gone from the house all day, so it (in theory) will stay neater. But, I only have until September 2010 until my baby is in kindergarten (Michael starts in September 2009, and Bryn graduates 2009), so I'm going to keep avoiding any talk of going back to work full time until at least then :-)