So, I know it's been over a month since I last posted. Or at least I knew it had been a long time even if I didn't realize it had been quite so long until I got on here just now. I've been busy.
This summer I was working summer camp again and would usually come home from being in the heat all day exhausted to the point of not wanting to do anything but be a vegetable if I could at all help it.
I also went to the national conference for the direct-sell business I own. Loved it! It was like a three-day party in Chicago with several of the other girls on my team. Now I want to go every year.
Towards the end of July, my husband got a job. We will be moving four hours away to a town in Northeast Texas which I hear is very lovely and we'll love. So, in the last two weeks, a lot has happened. My mom and sis came down for a week and we stripped wallpaper, painted, trimmed, weeded, mulched, packed, cleaned, etc. I think you get the point. My house looks completely different and the same all at once. We've staged it in it's almost-empty state so potential buyers can see what a cute little house it is. As of Saturday, we're on the market and hoping to sell soon and get our asking price so we can have a little cushion as we get started. It's been chaos and I'm completely exhausted.
While all that was going on, my husband went ahead to the town and spent last week in inservice and preparing his classroom. He has five classes to prep for so he's busy, too. He came back for the weekend and that was lovely, but then went back up there Sunday afternoon again.
My mom has the cats and my husband is in the new town so I'm here in a big empty house trying to stay busy enough that I don't let myself get paranoid. The problem with that is that my craft stuff is mostly packed and I'm getting caught up on several other things I had been meaning to do and my book isn't holding my attention like it was for a while.
Meanwhile, I'm also worrying about money -- because I'm so good at it -- because my hubby doesn't get paid until September 20th! Yikes! My camp job is over and I'll get one more check from that as well as a few checks from my home business, but it's going to be a major stretch to make it through. Thank God for mom's who send checks saying that when they're old and gray you can take care of them. I'm not asking for more help. Just trying to let you know what's going on.
And I'm working this week and probably next back at the after-school job I had here so I can train my replacement. Isn't it funny how you want to quit a job so badly and then when you're handed the opportunity, you don't want to after all? Not sure what I'll do in the new town. I'm trying to get some new contacts up there now so I can just jump in and get started right away but still have a few parties to do down here, too. I'm feeling very unsettled right now.
And I haven't even been up to see the town yet! My husband has visited a couple congregations up there to start feeling out things and see where we might like to worship. And he's stayed with two different families from the school there and I think had more offers, too. I've been invited to join him this weekend and am thinking about it as I want to get a feel for the lay of the land and help look at places to rent and see where I'll be living. I just have to make it back here in time for my annual on Monday morning. Ick. Don't even want to think about that.
At least mostly this summer I haven't been worrying about those kinds of problems as much! Anyway, that's my crazy life right now.
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