Hello Everyone!
This month has been a very busy one for me. I just took the second of two finals today, the other I did a few weeks ago. I think I’ll end up with a B in the class that I took the final for today. I hated that class and am glad to be done with it. It was supposed to be about Humanities, which to me is more a study of human history and behavior and how we developed and so forth. The course turned out to be almost like an art history course with a little history thrown in. It was quite stupid. On the 10th I started three new classes at Baker College over in Jackson. Technically I guess it’s only two because one is online. So far I am enjoying all three courses, which is nice because I spend quite a lot of my time doing work for them so I might as well enjoy it. I hate APA formatting though. I don’t know anyone who enjoys it, but having to use it to write paper after paper is especially not enjoyable.
Andrew sort of heard back about the job he wants. He was told that he is hired effective February 6th, but we don’t know a lot of details other than that. We know his first job is in Ohio, I forget the city and we are fairly sure he will be a supervisor, but we don’t know salary nor do we know anything about whether we need to get a 2nd car, if we’ll someday have insurance, if there is going to be extensive travel or only occasional or any of that kind of thing. We are waiting for them to let us know when they can meet with Andrew in order to work all of that out. It seems they are very excited to have him work there, but they sure aren’t good at the hiring process. I hope they are better after he starts working there. I’m not so big on all the uncertainty that has come so far from the whole thing thus far, but we both still feel really good about the job and feel that this is where he needs to be. I sure hope we are right.
January has been eventful for me as far as the Church is concerned too. I have a new calling now. I was the 2nd counselor in the Young Women presidency, but I have been asked to serve now as president. I can’t say that I’m excited for the change, but I’m grateful to be able to serve where the Lord needs me. Megan was almost happy when they released me as 2nd counselor, but then when I was called as president the excitement faded. I feel sorry for her because I’m sure it’s hard to always have Mom there and not be able to do whatever and say whatever. She says it’s cause I tease her (I do it good-naturedly) but I think she wishes she was in there without me sometimes. I can’t say that I blame her. I have two wonderful counselors, Ruth Montross and Sarah Sill. Both are very busy women, as am I, but I know that the Lord will work through us if we will let Him.
Megan turned 13 on the 9th, so she is an official teenager now. I don’t know why she thought it was such a big deal, but we all seem to at that age. It’s funny because later in life we don’t want to think about our birthdays at all if we can help it. I am at the point where I don’t care one way or the other about mine, but I realized that today marks four months till my next one and I can’t believe it has come around so fast.
We went sledding a few times and that was fun for Andrew and Megan more than it was for me. I’m not much on climbing hills and then sometimes they go so fast they scare me. I’m not big on being scared, so I don’t do much sledding.
I hope your Christmas and New Year’s was nice. Ours was pretty good. We had the Elders here on Christmas Eve and had a good time visiting with them. We called my family on Christmas Eve and Andrew’s on Christmas. We really want to start doing that more often, but we haven’t done it since then so we aren’t doing too good at that.
I started a program to help me lose weight, there are nearly 99 of us in the program. It’s a different program than I have done before. As part of this program two local places are offering special membership prices. I can’t afford either right now, so I didn’t join either one. Maybe some other time. We all have to weigh-in on Mondays at one of the two places and we also are raising money for the American Cancer Society at the same time. If you would like to sponsor me you can do so by the pounds I lose or you can do a flat amount that you’d like to donate. The money is due the end of June and I will let you know what I’ve lost at that point. I’ve been working on losing weight for some time now, but I have been doing better since I started this program. I workout at home more often than I’ve done before, so I think I might actually get much of my weight off that I need in order to be healthy. I certainly hope so. I plan to go to Girl’s Camp this summer, so I need to lose a bunch of weight before then so that it will be easier for me to get around when I get there. I’ll try to remember and keep you updated as I go.
I guess that’s it for this month. Love and miss you. You are in our thoughts and prayers often. We hope all is well.
