What A Week

 

Halleluiah, it's Friday!

This week was a doozy.  First of all, and for some unknown reason, I had trouble falling asleep and staying asleep every night this week.  It's been difficult because I have to get up at 5:30am for work.  A reason unknown to me, they removed me from having to take the 12th grade boy to his tech school.  Immediately, I was given a different route.  I have to pick up a girl a half hour away in her temporary foster home and bring her back to this town for school.  She's in 10th grade like my son but they don't know each other.  She's a super sweet girl.  I enjoy our conversations and getting to know her.  It should only be for a few weeks until she's returned to her biological family.  I don't know the story behind it and I dare not ask but I do wish her well.  This long trip has made me late to the elementary school in the afternoon where I pick up two girls.  The school and their parents seem to be super understanding.  I really do love this job but I worry if it's financially enough for us.  

My kids were both sick with bronchitis and currently taking an antibiotic.  My daughter missed three days.  They are missing so much this year and I'm grateful for doctors notes that help us to not reach that dumb 10-day parent excused absence rule before the fines start rolling in.  Ugh!  They are both on the mend and back to school today.  In just a few hours we will have entered the weekend and I'm looking forward to it!  

We also experienced some snow yesterday morning.  Nothing that accumulated but it was a sample of what's probably to come.  I hear Pennsylvania will see a snowy winter this year.

The best thing of this week was my husband was sworn in as school board director.  I went to my first board meeting and it was pretty cool to see my man behind the desk.  Congratulations Rob!  Go do what God has called for you!  

As we're moving closer to Christmas I'm trying to keep myself from feeling too stressed.  This is a time of year that should be joyful and happy but I find myself scurrying and panicking that all the gifts haven't been purchased yet.  Then there's the planning on having family over.  One day with my parents, the other day with the in-laws.  Time with extended family should be fun and happy but for me it's a stresser, especially the in-laws who I can't seem to get along with.  I feel like I have to walk on eggshells around them because whatever I do and say will be judged.  It's been that way for over twenty years.  But I try to focus on what's truly important in this season, which is the gift of Jesus.  I also focus on making sure my children are happy and fulfilled.  Waking up early on Christmas Day watching as they open gifts is so magical and wonderful and I know time with them like this is dwindling down.  Someday they will leave, probably with their own spouses and kids, and I will no longer have Christmas mornings like this.  The older my kids get the more I realize this and it kind of hurts but I also realize these changes are what makes the circle of life keep going.

Well, that's it.  It's been a sleepless and hectic week but it's almost over.  Wishing you all a restful and blessed weekend.