Long Time, No Talk

For goodness sakes, it's been far too long since any of us have written in this blog! Let's not let it happen again. There aren't really a lot of updates on my life, but here are the latest happenings:

About a week ago, this past summer's WorX community met up in Pittsburgh for a reunion of sorts. It actually happened! I still can't believe it. It's weird to think that our '08 community never had an official reunion (our schedules were/are just too busy!) and we were together for an entire summer and the '09 community who was never together completely for even one week of the summer had one. There were 13 of us! Pretty crazy stuff. It was definitely God's plan that we all had that weekend free.

Anyway, Pittsburgh is a great city. I spent a week there this summer as a chaperone with Catholic Heart Work Camp--the camp that got Sean brainstorming up J-Worx--but I didn't really get to see the parts of the city that we all got to see last weekend. It was such a wonderfully random day where things just kept happening; everything fit together like a great big puzzle. It was perfect. The only sad thing was that it had to end. I LOVE the community that J-Worx has created. Why can't we all live closer to each other???? Oh well, maybe God will change that in time.

Enough reminising about that though...

As for my life in MI? It's good. It's so much better than last year! I felt like last year was one huge, difficult, stressful, etc.... year. It was definitely a learning experience. I'm just now starting to see how much I did grow even though it was so hard. God's preparing me for something. I just don't know what! Regardless, I love my job so much more this year. The kids are better, the subjects/curriculum is better, the staff is better--although a lot of that may be because I'm better/different. I feel a lot more confident and comfortable. I feel like I know how to balance the spiritual/fun/organized side of me with the professional/teacher-in-a-public-school side of me--or at least I'm getting better at it! God is so merciful.

I'm realizing more and more how much of a great community I have here as well. I don't think I realized it or believed it last year, but I do now. I love my family and my friends so much. I take them for granted too much.

Well, I have to go, but I miss all of you so much! If you get a chance sometime, give me a call. I'm not very good with phone calls, but I try to answer my phone when someone calls me!

God bless always,
Carolyn