I know its been a little while!! I'm so sorry for that. Well, maybe I'm not. Its been HECTIC getting back into work. Not that I dislike it, completely... but there are moments, that's for SURE. This last week, all told, I was doing three different people's jobs... and had trainings and all sorts of other things I had to deal with. Scenarios I can't even write about that were stressing me out... these last two weeks combined have been more stressful than I expected them to be. I'm up and getting ready before 6 am, out the door most days before 630, the latest is at 715. And the earliest I get home is around 3 in the afternoon, some days later than that. If Frank is working, then I get a little less than 4 hours before I have to go pick him up. I take around an hour of that to get home, unload my stuff, decompress and get some lunch. Then its nose to the grindstone to prepare the next day's lesson plans.. or running off to some church function that we have to do (confession, this week I was too tired... no Wednesday night church for me), or heading out to Frank's karate class. I have been neglecting house work (sadly, Frank's done more house duties than I have these last two weeks) and cooking and keeping up with friends... I only have two people that I talk to (outside of coworkers... seems there's not a day that goes by that I DON'T hear from someone at work, even on weekends) and that's Frank and Angela (my "best"). If you're not Frank or Angela, you may not have heard a peep from me in the last week or so. I'm so sorry if that's the case! Eventually life will calm down and I will have time. Maybe.
Anyways, so. I couldn't keep up with the fast. Trying to eat certain of the foods hurt way too much. I couldn't cut out popsicles and pudding cups or pbj's. But Frank has been keeping up with it. He's doing well. There's only one week left of it now, and he's definitely got a noticeable difference. And even though I haven't kept up with the diet part of the fast, we've both grown through this. We've somehow managed to get up under the scope of some firing squads, which was definitely not our plan, but I guess a side effect of growing closer to God is that you end up getting in the Devil's sights a little more.
On that note, an unexpected twist that has come along is that (for reasons I shall not post, but are still bogus) Frank has NOT been given the position of charge nurse. He was intentionally passed over for someone with less than half the experience. It's frustrating, but we're trusting that as Joseph said in Genesis 50:20, what others have meant for evil God will use for good. It's irritating and frustrating and hurtful and all kinds of other emotions (I had a full blown panic attack over the situation... thanks Angela for the talk-down!), but God is still in control and will lead us in the way we should go.
There are even more changes that may be on the horizon. We're still thinking and praying about moving out of our place (which after these last two weeks, being somewhere else and letting them cook for me would be STELLAR), but no decisions have been yet. And there are other things we're praying about and working towards. Eventually we'll share it all, but for now, we're keeping our cards close to our chest. :)
Hope you all are doing well!!! I'll try to update more before another two weeks passes. No promises though!
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