Catching up in 2017
This year is my 10th anniversary of this Blog and to celebrate I have decided to begin posting again. I love Facebook, but find it very impersonal, and would love to be able to post in more detail about those things that are close to my heart, that stick in my mind and that I find fascinating. So here goes...
I will begin (again) by catching you up on our lives. We are still living in a little town, about an hour N of Spokane and I continue to enjoy my new career as a certified occupational therapist assistant. I work for a skilled nursing facility, helping geriatric patients regain their independence. My husband, Don, has been doing install work for a company in town, installing satellite TV/Internet, car stereo and alarms and even some home AV equipment. Recently though, he was offered and hired for a position as the facilities manger for our old church in Spokane. This is a new direction/opportunity that God has given us and we are not sure yet where it is leading us. We think possibly it means we are going to be moving back toward the Spokane area and closer to our friends and his job, but still within commuting distance for Bug and I. But I know how the saying goes, "we make plans and God laughs," so we are trying to be patient and wait on His timing and direction.
Speaking of Bug, he is now 14 years old and is finishing up his freshman year at a small christian private school in the next town over. He started there in the middle of last year (8th grade), we had gone back to homeschooling after his year at public school (7th grade), but due to many issues (poor motivation on his part, too much travelling on mine), he was beginning to fall behind so we enrolled him early at the private school, that we had been intending to enroll him in for high school. He is now loving it there, is doing well in school, has a great group of friends there and continues to be involved in many activities. He is still in boy-scouts and is now a First Class Scout and is hopefully going to make Star by his birthday. He participated in high school wrestling through the local public high school and although he enjoyed it, he has decided it was too time consuming to continue with next year. He is on his school's worship team and year book staff and is excited to be done for the year and ready to enjoy many adventures over the summer.
Sweetpea is still with us and will be turning 9 at the beginning of next month. She is a third grader at the local public elementary school and is doing very well academically. She is an excellent reader and has lately been obsessed with going to the library and finding new books and looking things up on the internet to try out new things. We took her out of gymnastics this year, but she enjoyed participating in choir and Awana and is looking forward to swimming at the local pool and participating in many camps over the summer. She is still not adopted, but I am no longer worried about this, she is a part of our family and we will continue to raise her until she is 18 ( and beyond).
Life is good up here in our beautiful small town and we are just waiting on the next adventure to come along and to see what God has planned for our lives next. Stick around and see what mischief we find.
I will begin (again) by catching you up on our lives. We are still living in a little town, about an hour N of Spokane and I continue to enjoy my new career as a certified occupational therapist assistant. I work for a skilled nursing facility, helping geriatric patients regain their independence. My husband, Don, has been doing install work for a company in town, installing satellite TV/Internet, car stereo and alarms and even some home AV equipment. Recently though, he was offered and hired for a position as the facilities manger for our old church in Spokane. This is a new direction/opportunity that God has given us and we are not sure yet where it is leading us. We think possibly it means we are going to be moving back toward the Spokane area and closer to our friends and his job, but still within commuting distance for Bug and I. But I know how the saying goes, "we make plans and God laughs," so we are trying to be patient and wait on His timing and direction.
Speaking of Bug, he is now 14 years old and is finishing up his freshman year at a small christian private school in the next town over. He started there in the middle of last year (8th grade), we had gone back to homeschooling after his year at public school (7th grade), but due to many issues (poor motivation on his part, too much travelling on mine), he was beginning to fall behind so we enrolled him early at the private school, that we had been intending to enroll him in for high school. He is now loving it there, is doing well in school, has a great group of friends there and continues to be involved in many activities. He is still in boy-scouts and is now a First Class Scout and is hopefully going to make Star by his birthday. He participated in high school wrestling through the local public high school and although he enjoyed it, he has decided it was too time consuming to continue with next year. He is on his school's worship team and year book staff and is excited to be done for the year and ready to enjoy many adventures over the summer.
Sweetpea is still with us and will be turning 9 at the beginning of next month. She is a third grader at the local public elementary school and is doing very well academically. She is an excellent reader and has lately been obsessed with going to the library and finding new books and looking things up on the internet to try out new things. We took her out of gymnastics this year, but she enjoyed participating in choir and Awana and is looking forward to swimming at the local pool and participating in many camps over the summer. She is still not adopted, but I am no longer worried about this, she is a part of our family and we will continue to raise her until she is 18 ( and beyond).
Life is good up here in our beautiful small town and we are just waiting on the next adventure to come along and to see what God has planned for our lives next. Stick around and see what mischief we find.
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