Over the weekend I got an unexpected (but very welcomed) phone call for an interview. Right at the time I was really getting down about not being hired and accepting the fact that I would sub all year, God provided me encouragement with this possibility. It was this morning at a middle school in Northside for a 6th and 8th grade Reading position. While I am still trusting that the Lord has a plan and will provide me the right teaching position in His timing, I'm excited to say at least that it went really well this morning! I have felt like previous interviews have gone really well... with nothing coming from them. But then obviously those weren't the jobs God has prepared for me. I guess I won't know if this one is or isn't for a of couple days ... until I either do get a phone call, or accept that I won't. It did go really well and I felt like they liked me. Everyone at the school that I encountered was extremely friendly, even on such a dreary day. They said they would make a decision within a couple days, and even if this doesn't turn out to be where I end up, at least I am grateful to know that I did my best and to have gotten the opportunity to interview. That in itself was encouraging at this point. So. Thank you all for prayers and support with my seemingly-endless job search! I'll keep everyone updated with whatever develops through all of this.
PS -Sorry the last post was crazy long! I didn't realize how lengthy it got until I had published it. Thanks for sticking with me if you read it to the end!
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Friday, September 3, 2010
Nerf Guns & Yahtzee
Well week 2 of school is coming to a close. Cody is extremely excited for the 3 day weekend! (I am too; I feel like I haven't seen him all week.) I think so far (granted this is me judging from how he acts and what he says... not actually being in his head and truly knowing) school is going well for Cody. There were a couple stressful points this week, but they were dealt with and the small situations improved. Definitely compared to last year, these two weeks have been good! I know that at least. It's amazing what just having that first year under your belt does I guess. While yes he's still working a crazy amount, he's not as constantly stressed or overwhelmed as last year. He's more confident going into each lesson and each day. I'm so proud of my husband! He's doing a wonderful job! -and some of his students have even been telling him that he's a good teacher. I guess we'll see what week three brings, but for now, it's all going well, and we're both very thankful.
As you can probably guess since I'm writing this new post mid-morning today, I did not get a sub job as I was hoping. I really hoped that I would today... now that two weeks of school are almost done, and it's a Friday, I thought something would come up. Nope. I did get a call for an afternoon job -but it was bilingual and I had to speak Spanish... and well, I don't. However, I was slightly encouraged yesterday. This week a couple days I went out to some schools and put my sub card in lots of teacher mailboxes and then yesterday I compiled lists of teachers from other schools and sent them a brief email introducing myself and saying I'm available as a sub and telling them my qualifications/certifications and such. I got a call yesterday evening for a sub job next Wednesday from a teacher who read my email; one of the schools is having an in-service day then. And I got a call later last night, and a call at 6:30 this morning from teachers from the same school asking about the same in-service day. If only I could sub multiple jobs on the same day! Oh well. I was encouraged that I know at least 3 teachers read my email and were willing to use me! ...I am hoping more than just those three will call eventually lol. Anyways. I don't know if that really counts as an update... nothing really new, but that's what's going on with subbing.
Oh, very briefly, a while ago I mentioned I had started working out (haha) and said I hoped sharing it on our blog would keep me motivated to continue... well, it did for about 2 weeks. And I haven't since. My 2 week kick was ended during our South Padre trip, and for the sake of honesty and since I did mention it before, I thought I'd just share that, well, it didn't last. I'm not broken up about it.
-Cooking Experiment: Success or Failure-
While I'm sure this isn't anything new to most people, it was new to me. This week I made chicken with an Italian Dressing flavoring (thank you to Kari for that idea a while back!). And it was amazing! -If I do say so myself, actually, Cody said so too! I didn't cook the chicken in any different way than usual, I just smothered it in Italian Dressing as it cooked, and it turned out awesome. I will absolutely use that to flavor chicken a lot more often. (I do tend to make chicken a lot.) This was hands down a success.
I also within the last week made my first double layered round cake (actually I made two back-to-back, but I'm only gonna talk about one, cause the second one didn't get icing). I know that's probably nothing new or special to most other people as well, but again, it was the first time I'd tried it. The double layered and round parts were easy enough, however the icing was another story. First off, I hardly ever make cakes because Cody doesn't really like cake. Secondly, whenever I do make cake, I don't ice it because he also doesn't like icing. So. Needless to say, I'm far from an expert as icing even a regular sheet cake. This double layered round cake was unexpectedly quite difficult! Seriously. I felt ridiculous getting icing everywhere and all over me... I couldn't figure out why it wasn't spreading smoothly as I wanted it to. I ran out of icing; there were bare patches all over lol. It was probably the funniest/worst looking cake you'd ever see! I will say it tasted wonderful though! Not a show cake by any means, but still delicious. Unfortunately I'm claiming that as a failure, because I've made cakes before, that was no big deal. My goal was a pretty and perfect iced double layered round cake... and I failed at making it pretty like I wanted! That was my main goal with that attempt, and I definitely failed. I will try again at some point. I need another birthday for someone who appreciates cake!
Now... to the title of this post. Recently Cody and I have been on a game kick again. We go through phases of finding a game we like, playing it every chance we get, and then burning ourselves out on it and not wanting to play that again for a year. But for now we're still in the 'play every chance we get' phase. And yes, believe it or not, we're playing Yahtzee! Also Ultimate Yahtzee, which I'd never heard of before. It does make the game much more strategic and exciting. I will also say, the dice absolutely like me better than Cody. I posted on Facebook a while back that I finally found something I'm better at than him! Sadly it's just a non-skill board game! We're having lots of fun with it though. It was a random purchase one day that I forced Cody to go with me to HEB. Of course it was him, not me, that saw it and grabbed it to add to our mass game collection. But we are enjoying it a lot, so I'm not really complaining about the impulse buy.
And now to the Nerf guns, which is probably way more exciting to read about than Yahtzee! This was something we did A LOT last summer, and played again for the first time in a long time this week. Hopefully (I have a feeling we will) we will start to play this again more often. So, last summer we bought two Nerf guns at Target, and we said it was the best buy all summer that we made! Anyways. Our Nerf gun fights have several varieties of style that we go through. We do duals, ranging from a full barrel of bullets to just one. We do minimal forts... where we have only a chair and toss pillow as protection. And we do fortified forts, which includes the basic chair and pillow, but then adds a bar stool, more pillows, possibly the bench and some couch cushions, and various other things we find and add to our barricades. Let me tell you, we highly recommend this activity if you your spouse (or just friend I guess) are bored and either happen to have Nerf guns, or have like $10 to go buy some. After building our forts we proceed to count off and start our fight. The first person to successfully shoot and hit the other one 5 times wins. A head (we don't aim for the face though it still accidentally happens) shot counts as 2 hits. Our rules are that you don't have to stay behind your fort, if you want to charge the other person's fort you can... it's just very risky. Unless they happen to be out of bullets, and you know it, which then makes it an easy and swift victory. Anyways! That's something we really enjoy and have recently rediscovered! Again, we highly recommend it to other couples who find themselves bored mid-afternoon or are just looking for something fun to do together. Seriously. It's way fun. You should go buy Nerf guns and try it out.
I guess that's it! I'm off to go eat breakfast/lunch and start being productive for the day. Thanks for reading!
As you can probably guess since I'm writing this new post mid-morning today, I did not get a sub job as I was hoping. I really hoped that I would today... now that two weeks of school are almost done, and it's a Friday, I thought something would come up. Nope. I did get a call for an afternoon job -but it was bilingual and I had to speak Spanish... and well, I don't. However, I was slightly encouraged yesterday. This week a couple days I went out to some schools and put my sub card in lots of teacher mailboxes and then yesterday I compiled lists of teachers from other schools and sent them a brief email introducing myself and saying I'm available as a sub and telling them my qualifications/certifications and such. I got a call yesterday evening for a sub job next Wednesday from a teacher who read my email; one of the schools is having an in-service day then. And I got a call later last night, and a call at 6:30 this morning from teachers from the same school asking about the same in-service day. If only I could sub multiple jobs on the same day! Oh well. I was encouraged that I know at least 3 teachers read my email and were willing to use me! ...I am hoping more than just those three will call eventually lol. Anyways. I don't know if that really counts as an update... nothing really new, but that's what's going on with subbing.
Oh, very briefly, a while ago I mentioned I had started working out (haha) and said I hoped sharing it on our blog would keep me motivated to continue... well, it did for about 2 weeks. And I haven't since. My 2 week kick was ended during our South Padre trip, and for the sake of honesty and since I did mention it before, I thought I'd just share that, well, it didn't last. I'm not broken up about it.
-Cooking Experiment: Success or Failure-
While I'm sure this isn't anything new to most people, it was new to me. This week I made chicken with an Italian Dressing flavoring (thank you to Kari for that idea a while back!). And it was amazing! -If I do say so myself, actually, Cody said so too! I didn't cook the chicken in any different way than usual, I just smothered it in Italian Dressing as it cooked, and it turned out awesome. I will absolutely use that to flavor chicken a lot more often. (I do tend to make chicken a lot.) This was hands down a success.
I also within the last week made my first double layered round cake (actually I made two back-to-back, but I'm only gonna talk about one, cause the second one didn't get icing). I know that's probably nothing new or special to most other people as well, but again, it was the first time I'd tried it. The double layered and round parts were easy enough, however the icing was another story. First off, I hardly ever make cakes because Cody doesn't really like cake. Secondly, whenever I do make cake, I don't ice it because he also doesn't like icing. So. Needless to say, I'm far from an expert as icing even a regular sheet cake. This double layered round cake was unexpectedly quite difficult! Seriously. I felt ridiculous getting icing everywhere and all over me... I couldn't figure out why it wasn't spreading smoothly as I wanted it to. I ran out of icing; there were bare patches all over lol. It was probably the funniest/worst looking cake you'd ever see! I will say it tasted wonderful though! Not a show cake by any means, but still delicious. Unfortunately I'm claiming that as a failure, because I've made cakes before, that was no big deal. My goal was a pretty and perfect iced double layered round cake... and I failed at making it pretty like I wanted! That was my main goal with that attempt, and I definitely failed. I will try again at some point. I need another birthday for someone who appreciates cake!
Now... to the title of this post. Recently Cody and I have been on a game kick again. We go through phases of finding a game we like, playing it every chance we get, and then burning ourselves out on it and not wanting to play that again for a year. But for now we're still in the 'play every chance we get' phase. And yes, believe it or not, we're playing Yahtzee! Also Ultimate Yahtzee, which I'd never heard of before. It does make the game much more strategic and exciting. I will also say, the dice absolutely like me better than Cody. I posted on Facebook a while back that I finally found something I'm better at than him! Sadly it's just a non-skill board game! We're having lots of fun with it though. It was a random purchase one day that I forced Cody to go with me to HEB. Of course it was him, not me, that saw it and grabbed it to add to our mass game collection. But we are enjoying it a lot, so I'm not really complaining about the impulse buy.
And now to the Nerf guns, which is probably way more exciting to read about than Yahtzee! This was something we did A LOT last summer, and played again for the first time in a long time this week. Hopefully (I have a feeling we will) we will start to play this again more often. So, last summer we bought two Nerf guns at Target, and we said it was the best buy all summer that we made! Anyways. Our Nerf gun fights have several varieties of style that we go through. We do duals, ranging from a full barrel of bullets to just one. We do minimal forts... where we have only a chair and toss pillow as protection. And we do fortified forts, which includes the basic chair and pillow, but then adds a bar stool, more pillows, possibly the bench and some couch cushions, and various other things we find and add to our barricades. Let me tell you, we highly recommend this activity if you your spouse (or just friend I guess) are bored and either happen to have Nerf guns, or have like $10 to go buy some. After building our forts we proceed to count off and start our fight. The first person to successfully shoot and hit the other one 5 times wins. A head (we don't aim for the face though it still accidentally happens) shot counts as 2 hits. Our rules are that you don't have to stay behind your fort, if you want to charge the other person's fort you can... it's just very risky. Unless they happen to be out of bullets, and you know it, which then makes it an easy and swift victory. Anyways! That's something we really enjoy and have recently rediscovered! Again, we highly recommend it to other couples who find themselves bored mid-afternoon or are just looking for something fun to do together. Seriously. It's way fun. You should go buy Nerf guns and try it out.
I guess that's it! I'm off to go eat breakfast/lunch and start being productive for the day. Thanks for reading!
Monday, August 30, 2010
And thus, school begins again
Week 1 of school: check! Second Monday of school: check! Who's already looking forward to the long Labor Day weekend? -My husband is. (I'm sure along with most other teachers.)
So Cody's starting year two of teaching, and I think his first week went pretty well. Thank you Lord : ) He did start to get exhausted and stressed towards the end of the week and over the weekend, I guess as to be expected. This year he has 3 preps instead of 2. He's teaching (I think I've already shared this with yall... but oh well) regular Geometry, Pre-AP Geometry, and Pre-AP Algebra II. He has some students again from last year... not repeats, just they had him for Algebra I and now for Geometry. He doesn't feel as prepared for this second week as the first week. I'm hoping and praying that he'll be able to stay organized and on top of grading and such throughout the year so that these 3 preps don't make it all too stressful. So far his favorite class is the Pre-AP Algebra II. I think he's really enjoying the ability to have real discussions with those classes and getting their brains thinking and sharing about it all. Hopefully that will continue.
I haven't had a sub job yet. I guess teachers make a real effort to not be absent at the beginning of the school year (-I guess it's understandable). Today I went to a couple schools (and if I don't have jobs during the rest of this week, I plan to continue) and dropped off some business cards with my contact info and certification areas in lots of teachers' mailboxes. Hopefully some of them will give me a call to sub for them. And then hopefully they like me and use me again, and share my name with other teachers, and I get very familiar with a couple schools, and then if either a long-term sub job opens up, or a full-time teaching position, the principal will consider me. Hopefully. I guess that's the new goal.
Filling some of my spare time at the moment, I've become a bit of a blog addict. I currently have four. This one (that obviously I don't need to tell you about) and a private blog that acts as my journal-thing, (I don't really like to say that I journal for some reason...) I've had for a while now. But after lunch with some friends from church on Sunday (yesterday), I decided to start two new ones... and that process kept me up later than I have been in quite a while. But I love it. I half feel bad because I'm sharing this... but I'm not going to tell you what/where they are. Sorry! One is under a different name so that I have anonymity to be completely open and honest and express myself through the outlet of blogging, and another was a suggestion of my friends at lunch... a writing blog. That one is also private (I might open it up later, not sure yet) and the focus there will be for me to have motivation to actually write something every now and then. I love writing and have a secret (guess it's not secret anymore) dream of being a writer -although I honestly don't think I have the talent to, it's still something I enjoy. So... sorry I tend to ramble. These two new blogs are sort of experiments. We'll see if they continue to develop and last for long. I hope they do... but you never know. Four blogs might just be too much!
Anyways. Gotta go help Cody grade some papers and figure out dinner plans. I had a new meal to try tonight that I was excited about... but another dumb headache that is very quickly worsening will probably get in the way of that. Maybe another night this week. We'll see.
PS - Happy birthday to my Dad! I'm glad you have leftover chocolate cake to enjoy today!
So Cody's starting year two of teaching, and I think his first week went pretty well. Thank you Lord : ) He did start to get exhausted and stressed towards the end of the week and over the weekend, I guess as to be expected. This year he has 3 preps instead of 2. He's teaching (I think I've already shared this with yall... but oh well) regular Geometry, Pre-AP Geometry, and Pre-AP Algebra II. He has some students again from last year... not repeats, just they had him for Algebra I and now for Geometry. He doesn't feel as prepared for this second week as the first week. I'm hoping and praying that he'll be able to stay organized and on top of grading and such throughout the year so that these 3 preps don't make it all too stressful. So far his favorite class is the Pre-AP Algebra II. I think he's really enjoying the ability to have real discussions with those classes and getting their brains thinking and sharing about it all. Hopefully that will continue.
I haven't had a sub job yet. I guess teachers make a real effort to not be absent at the beginning of the school year (-I guess it's understandable). Today I went to a couple schools (and if I don't have jobs during the rest of this week, I plan to continue) and dropped off some business cards with my contact info and certification areas in lots of teachers' mailboxes. Hopefully some of them will give me a call to sub for them. And then hopefully they like me and use me again, and share my name with other teachers, and I get very familiar with a couple schools, and then if either a long-term sub job opens up, or a full-time teaching position, the principal will consider me. Hopefully. I guess that's the new goal.
Filling some of my spare time at the moment, I've become a bit of a blog addict. I currently have four. This one (that obviously I don't need to tell you about) and a private blog that acts as my journal-thing, (I don't really like to say that I journal for some reason...) I've had for a while now. But after lunch with some friends from church on Sunday (yesterday), I decided to start two new ones... and that process kept me up later than I have been in quite a while. But I love it. I half feel bad because I'm sharing this... but I'm not going to tell you what/where they are. Sorry! One is under a different name so that I have anonymity to be completely open and honest and express myself through the outlet of blogging, and another was a suggestion of my friends at lunch... a writing blog. That one is also private (I might open it up later, not sure yet) and the focus there will be for me to have motivation to actually write something every now and then. I love writing and have a secret (guess it's not secret anymore) dream of being a writer -although I honestly don't think I have the talent to, it's still something I enjoy. So... sorry I tend to ramble. These two new blogs are sort of experiments. We'll see if they continue to develop and last for long. I hope they do... but you never know. Four blogs might just be too much!
Anyways. Gotta go help Cody grade some papers and figure out dinner plans. I had a new meal to try tonight that I was excited about... but another dumb headache that is very quickly worsening will probably get in the way of that. Maybe another night this week. We'll see.
PS - Happy birthday to my Dad! I'm glad you have leftover chocolate cake to enjoy today!
Thursday, August 26, 2010
So, what did we do at South Padre?
Even though this was three weeks ago now... I'm finally going to fill everyone in on what all we did on our South Padre trip with my family. We were there for a week at the beginning of August and it was a great trip! The only thing missing from the trip was Ryan not being there. Hopefully next time. Anyways, so...
Obviously as it was a beach trip, we spent lots of time relaxing out on the sand and in the water. Amazingly, the whole time we were there the water was super clear and clean with no fish/animals that would freak me out in the water, no seaweed... no anything in the water! It was perfect. I was actually able to get in the water without constantly searching around me for anything that might brush up against me and freak me out. Also, Cody has a neat two handle kite that you can attempt to do tricks with that he loves and we all took turns trying out on the beach. It was pretty neat. I mastered making it do a big loop without crashing pretty quickly. We also spent a lot of time at the pool the second half of the week, and I think every evening my brothers and Cody and my dad went to the game room in the hotel place and played Pinball and Foosball.
One night we did Go Karts and one afternoon we rented two Paddle Boards that were a lot of fun actually. You stand (we also sat or stood on our knees) and paddle around on a massive board. We really enjoyed it. We also went to Schlitterbahn one afternoon. We rode every ride in the park and did the lazy river thing multiple times. It was relaxing and fun except that I had to loose both contacts due to sunscreen in my eyes which caused them to feel like they were on fire. It was an interesting experience being blind at the water park. I literally had to hold someone's tub in the river to stay with our group, and a couple times I passed right by my dad without recognizing him. My vision is extremely bad lol. Another day we rented these electric Mopeds and toured the island. It was fun... until my skin was cooking in the sun. I hadn't gotten burned the whole trip (this was one of the last days), and I thought I could go one hour in the sun without lotion... however it ended up being a two hour tour, and it was absolutely the worst sunburn I have ever gotten in my life. Oh well... as it's now three weeks later... I don't need to complain about it too much since I'm finally fully recovered and done peeling.
Cody bungee jumped for the second time! (Remember his first was at Victoria Falls during our summer mission trip in 2007.) This jump was at the Go Kart place on the island... it wasn't nearly as neat or big of a jump as Victoria Falls (I don't think he'll ever beat that one.), but it was a jump nonetheless... I couldn't do it. He was excited about it. I was sad I didn't get a good picture this time... for some reason I thought I had another minute before he jumped, so I backed up to get in line for a better view... and while I was backing up he jumped, so I missed the picture I was hoping for. Oh well. The Vic Falls pic is way more awesome anyways : )
We (aka everyone minus me) enjoyed a lot of seafood. Louie's Backyard was their favorite with the all you can eat seafood buffet. I got a nice pasta and tried to stay as far away as possible from the massive quantities of crab and shrimp that covered our table. It was a really enjoyable trip! I think everyone thoroughly enjoyed it. We loved time on the beach and enjoyed lots of other activities as well. Thanks Mom and Dad for the family vacation!
Obviously as it was a beach trip, we spent lots of time relaxing out on the sand and in the water. Amazingly, the whole time we were there the water was super clear and clean with no fish/animals that would freak me out in the water, no seaweed... no anything in the water! It was perfect. I was actually able to get in the water without constantly searching around me for anything that might brush up against me and freak me out. Also, Cody has a neat two handle kite that you can attempt to do tricks with that he loves and we all took turns trying out on the beach. It was pretty neat. I mastered making it do a big loop without crashing pretty quickly. We also spent a lot of time at the pool the second half of the week, and I think every evening my brothers and Cody and my dad went to the game room in the hotel place and played Pinball and Foosball.One night we did Go Karts and one afternoon we rented two Paddle Boards that were a lot of fun actually. You stand (we also sat or stood on our knees) and paddle around on a massive board. We really enjoyed it. We also went to Schlitterbahn one afternoon. We rode every ride in the park and did the lazy river thing multiple times. It was relaxing and fun except that I had to loose both contacts due to sunscreen in my eyes which caused them to feel like they were on fire. It was an interesting experience being blind at the water park. I literally had to hold someone's tub in the river to stay with our group, and a couple times I passed right by my dad without recognizing him. My vision is extremely bad lol. Another day we rented these electric Mopeds and toured the island. It was fun... until my skin was cooking in the sun. I hadn't gotten burned the whole trip (this was one of the last days), and I thought I could go one hour in the sun without lotion... however it ended up being a two hour tour, and it was absolutely the worst sunburn I have ever gotten in my life. Oh well... as it's now three weeks later... I don't need to complain about it too much since I'm finally fully recovered and done peeling.
Cody bungee jumped for the second time! (Remember his first was at Victoria Falls during our summer mission trip in 2007.) This jump was at the Go Kart place on the island... it wasn't nearly as neat or big of a jump as Victoria Falls (I don't think he'll ever beat that one.), but it was a jump nonetheless... I couldn't do it. He was excited about it. I was sad I didn't get a good picture this time... for some reason I thought I had another minute before he jumped, so I backed up to get in line for a better view... and while I was backing up he jumped, so I missed the picture I was hoping for. Oh well. The Vic Falls pic is way more awesome anyways : )
Buuungeeeee!!!
Monday, August 16, 2010
Mighty To Save
So I hated leaving our blog on such a negative note. Yes, we were really disappointed that I didn't get the position from my interview last week, but we know that the Lord will provide a job for me. Last night at The Gathering and today after lunch with a friend I am feeling encouraged and comforted, just trusting that God has a plan, even though as to what it is I am clueless. For now unless something comes up last minute, my plan is to start subbing as soon as school starts, and hope that will provide an opportunity. Please just continue to pray with us for a teaching position to be provided as soon as possible, and for us to continue to have peace in waiting. Thank you to everyone who has been praying about this for so long now : ) We really appreciate it.
Today was Cody's first official day back at work! He looked at me on Saturday and was like "Well, summer is officially over. This is now just another weekend before work." He's not stressed at all (yet!) as this week he's expecting to be fairly easy and relaxed as he just prepares for school to kick off. I'm sure he could use prayer once this week starts to end and the reality hits for students arriving next Monday. This year he'll be teaching 3 courses at Alamo Heights: Geometry, Pre-AP Geometry, and Pre-AP Algebra II. It'll be a totally different year going from low-level classes to dealing with Pre-AP students and parents! Hopefully it'll be a change he enjoys.
I wanted to share my favorite worship song with everyone. We played it last night at The Gathering, and every time I hear it, it just reminds me that God is in control, and that it'll be okay -no matter what is ever going on at the time. And it reminds me to be thankful for everything I have and everyone I love. I truly love the lyrics to this song... I just wanted to share.
Today was Cody's first official day back at work! He looked at me on Saturday and was like "Well, summer is officially over. This is now just another weekend before work." He's not stressed at all (yet!) as this week he's expecting to be fairly easy and relaxed as he just prepares for school to kick off. I'm sure he could use prayer once this week starts to end and the reality hits for students arriving next Monday. This year he'll be teaching 3 courses at Alamo Heights: Geometry, Pre-AP Geometry, and Pre-AP Algebra II. It'll be a totally different year going from low-level classes to dealing with Pre-AP students and parents! Hopefully it'll be a change he enjoys.
I wanted to share my favorite worship song with everyone. We played it last night at The Gathering, and every time I hear it, it just reminds me that God is in control, and that it'll be okay -no matter what is ever going on at the time. And it reminds me to be thankful for everything I have and everyone I love. I truly love the lyrics to this song... I just wanted to share.
Everyone needs compassion.
Love that's never failing;
Let mercy fall on me.
Everyone needs forgiveness.
The kindness of a Saviour;
The Hope of nations.
Saviour, He can move the mountains.
My God is Mighty to save,
He is Mighty to save.
Forever, Author of salvation.
He rose and conquered the grave,
Jesus conquered the grave.
So take me as You find me.
All my fears and failures,
Fill my life again.
I give my life to follow.
Everything I believe in,
Now I surrender.
Saviour, He can move the mountains.
My God is Mighty to save,
He is Mighty to save.
Forever, Author of salvation.
He rose and conquered the grave,
Jesus conquered the grave.
Shine your light and let the whole world see,
We're singing for the glory of the risen King, Jesus.
Shine your light and let the whole world see,
We're singing for the glory of the risen King, Jesus.
My Saviour, He can move the mountains.
My God is Mighty to save,
He is Mighty to save.
Forever, Author of salvation.
He rose and conquered the grave,
Jesus conquered the grave.
Mighty To Save -By Hillsong
Saturday, August 14, 2010
honestly disappointed
This past Tuesday I had an interview at an elementary school in Southside ISD for a 1st grade position. Today I got the official phone call that I was not the applicant chosen. I feel like I've been doing good staying positive and hopeful and confident... but if I'm being honest, this was really disappointing and I'm having a hard time not getting discouraged. For this past interview, I was the most excited, the most confident, the most prepared I had been for ANY other interview. It was my A+ game plus some. I thought I was going to get a happier phone call. I would really appreciate prayers to stay enthusiastic and confident. It's hard feeling like that interview was better than I've done so far all summer... and therefore my best wasn't enough. I keep trying to remind myself that the Lord has a plan... we just really need for me to have a full-time teaching position this year, and well school starts in a week. Please pray for the position that God has in store for me to open up and to be made know soon. Pray for me to stop feeling down and being so negative with myself. Really any and all prayers with my non-job situation are welcomed! I just wanted to keep everyone up-to-date since I've been posting about the interviews and such as they come. Hopefully something else will come up quickly and hopefully I will be able to trust and remember that the Lord will provide, even if it's not in the timing we would choose.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Parkhills
So, a lot of stuff kinda has been going on lately with our church, and I guess I feel like sharing. About a year ago now, we started attending Parkhills Baptist Church here in San Antonio and around November we finished new member classes and officially joined. We're part of a Married-Twenty-Something's Bible Study group that we've really enjoyed on Tuesday nights. Also, this past spring we started attending FUEL -which is the middle and high school youth group- and helping out some. This summer (as has been mentioned at one point) Cody and I led a small student home group for students that just finished 9th or 10th grade on Wednesdays. We have really enjoyed meeting and getting to know these students! We had a small group, but they were great kids! -and we hope to continue to get to know them through FUEL as the school year starts back up. On that note, tonight was our last summer student home group! It all went by quickly and unfortunately we missed two weeks due to the Ohio trip. We ended up just hanging out and playing Catchphrase and Apples to Apples to end our summer with them tonight.
As the school year is about to start back up, Cody and I are going to be helping teach Sunday School for the first time. -I don't know about Cody, but I'm a little nervous about it! Some details could probably still change, but for now it looks like Cody will be teaching 6th Grade Boys all by himself, and I'll be joining to co-teach with a friend of mine from our Tuesday night group, and I think we'll have 9th and 10th grade girls. She taught this Sunday School class all last year (possibly before as well) and her husband is the semi-Youth Pastor, so she's very experienced with the youth group -and I'm very glad for that! I'm excited to start getting to know these girls more, to get more involved with the youth group, and to spend more time and get to know my friend (Linsay) even better.
This past Sunday our pastor, Robert Welch, was in a serious car accident on his way to our Children's Camp. Another driver coming the opposite direction crossed over the highway and hit him head on. The other driver passed away at the scene and Dr. Welch was airlifted to a hospital. They said due to the severity of the accident that it was amazing he survived. Thankfully he did and only suffered (I think) a broken heel, fractured pelvis, and two or three broken ribs. He's in a lot of pain and it will be a very long recovery, but he'll be okay. We'd ask you to please take a minute as you read this to pause and say a prayer for our pastor, for his recovery and pain, and for his wife (Ruth) as she helps him through it all.
Lastly I'd like to share about our Sunday nights at Parkhills. Whenever we can we've been attending this fairly new thing called The Gathering. It's a fairly small (hopefully to start growing) get-together of people who come together for about an hour and a half simply to be a community in prayer for one another and to praise our Lord. We sing and worship and take time to share what's going on in our lives and to pray for one another as people share prayer and praise requests. It's been an amazing picture of community that we are excited to be a part of, and we are excited to see how God will work through it and continue to deepen the relationships there. If you're ever in San Antonio and have a Sunday evening free, you should let us know and join us! It's really awesome, and anyone and everyone is welcome.
Anyways. It's almost 10 and we've yet to eat dinner. I should probably go cook something up! Just felt like sharing about what we've been doing with our church : )
As the school year is about to start back up, Cody and I are going to be helping teach Sunday School for the first time. -I don't know about Cody, but I'm a little nervous about it! Some details could probably still change, but for now it looks like Cody will be teaching 6th Grade Boys all by himself, and I'll be joining to co-teach with a friend of mine from our Tuesday night group, and I think we'll have 9th and 10th grade girls. She taught this Sunday School class all last year (possibly before as well) and her husband is the semi-Youth Pastor, so she's very experienced with the youth group -and I'm very glad for that! I'm excited to start getting to know these girls more, to get more involved with the youth group, and to spend more time and get to know my friend (Linsay) even better.
This past Sunday our pastor, Robert Welch, was in a serious car accident on his way to our Children's Camp. Another driver coming the opposite direction crossed over the highway and hit him head on. The other driver passed away at the scene and Dr. Welch was airlifted to a hospital. They said due to the severity of the accident that it was amazing he survived. Thankfully he did and only suffered (I think) a broken heel, fractured pelvis, and two or three broken ribs. He's in a lot of pain and it will be a very long recovery, but he'll be okay. We'd ask you to please take a minute as you read this to pause and say a prayer for our pastor, for his recovery and pain, and for his wife (Ruth) as she helps him through it all.
Lastly I'd like to share about our Sunday nights at Parkhills. Whenever we can we've been attending this fairly new thing called The Gathering. It's a fairly small (hopefully to start growing) get-together of people who come together for about an hour and a half simply to be a community in prayer for one another and to praise our Lord. We sing and worship and take time to share what's going on in our lives and to pray for one another as people share prayer and praise requests. It's been an amazing picture of community that we are excited to be a part of, and we are excited to see how God will work through it and continue to deepen the relationships there. If you're ever in San Antonio and have a Sunday evening free, you should let us know and join us! It's really awesome, and anyone and everyone is welcome.
Anyways. It's almost 10 and we've yet to eat dinner. I should probably go cook something up! Just felt like sharing about what we've been doing with our church : )
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