A month later...

It's been a month (and a few days) since my last post.

Life has been really busy lately. Lets mention the latest happenings:
1. The Bridge Youth Group has started back up.  I don't have much responsibility with this, except keep the house clean and get snacks when youth is at our house. I think I still carry the weight of it a little bit, though. I worry about it: how many people will be there. What will be discussed? How are the kids getting along? Are they learning? ....my mind keeps going.

I've clearly not learned to give these things completely over to God. I'm continually working towards it though.  By blogging it is helping me to see that I'm holding onto it even though I want to let it go. So decision made - I'm letting it go. For Real!

Side Note: I'm super proud of Adam and his ability to connect with youth. I don't have the patience...but it is purely a joy to see him connect with them.

2. House Projects - We've been spending any free evenings or weekend days to work on some house projects. The biggest project has been our yard this year. We had the landscape in the front removed...we're working a bit on the back yard. This past week, we planted grass seed to shrink our flower beds in the front. They were HUGE and way too much for us to manage.  Fortunately it has been raining this week so the "keep the ground wet" thing is working great for us.  Unfortunately, it is raining A LOT and there is some retaining water in the area where we planted seed.  Hopefully we'll start to see sprouts in some areas and figure out where we need to reseed.

This has been a huge project for us. We're doing a lot of the work on our own, trying to save money.  It's been some hard labor, though. Once again, I'm grateful Adam is so willing to help...well really, take control of this project. It's fun to be doing it together. I'm sure at the end of all this, we'll look back and be so thankful for the experience and what we accomplished.

3. Fall break is this week.  Adam's Fall Break is Friday and Monday. I'm excited because I took those two days off work too. We're going to work on an indoor project Friday and hopefully have a completely lazy day Monday with our two pooches. I'm looking forward to a little time off and away from work. Work has been pretty busy for me and a mental break is needed.

So I guess that's the short and sweet of what's been going on.

I need to update on our fertility journey, our 2012 trips and also a conversation I had with my cousin, Lindsay. Mental note for next time. :)