Disclaimer

I just want to apologize for any grammar or spelling mistakes that their might be in my posts. I try to think through things as I write them, but if I went back and read through everything and tried to make it sound just right, I probably would never post anything at all, because it always sounds silly when I read back over it. I try to just write as I would talk. Which is probably why everything seems to just run on. Oh, and I don't know how to turn on spellcheck. Maybe I'll figure it out one day. Anyways, for what it's worth. :)

Job update

Well, Leigh had an interview on Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. When he first heard about the job it sounded like something that he would be very interested in and would enjoy doing. He actually turned in a resume to the company about a week before, but according to their website, they didn't have any openings. He was contacted by a recruiter and so everything is done through the recruiter as far as setting up interviews, etc. Needless to say it has been a lot of phone calls back and forth trying to get times to work and stuff for the company. After he was finished with the interview he wasn't sure whether they were still interested or not, but come to find out they are, SO on this Tuesday at 11:00a.m., he goes in for another interview. Please pray that everything will go smoothly and that this will be the job God has for him if it's His will. There's a requirement for the job that Leigh doesn't have, but he would enjoy learning about it, if they would be willing to train him. One of the things that he enjoyed so much about his job at PCC was the diversity of things they had to learn and be able to do.

Beginning of School/ First day off

 We started school on August 29, which seems really late to me because we usually start the last week or last partial week of July. So I have been trying to do some extra lessons and such to "catch up" so that we're not doing school until the end of May. I like to finish near the beginning of May, usually just because I start getting ancy to get other things done, and the beach craving sets in about March/April when the weather starts getting warmer. So this past Friday, Sept. 30, we finished our first six weeks!! WOOHOO!! I'm not cramming in lessons, it came out to one extra lesson a week, which was doable, especially since the first few weeks are a lot of review. As a reward we took yesterday off. It was so nice to have a day off. We don't take holidays, except for Thanksgiving and Christmas, so all our days off are based on what I need to get done, or when I decide to go visit someone, or someone's sick, etc. I found last year, that the kids really enjoy looking forward to having a day off, and since we don't take holidays, they were missing out, because I would plan my schedule and tentatively plan a day off here or there, but not tell them, in case I changed my mind or I was able to fit school in along with the other things. I didn't realize this until towards the end of the year, so they only had like one or two days to look forward to, so I decided this year to try to make them a little more planned. They had a Great day, even though I didn't plan anything special or anything, it was just a day off. L had asked for the trains and track to be brought out a couple weeks before so they could play with it, but I wanted to get their room cleaned and reorganized, so I could get the tub down and leave it down, so we did that Monday morning and they played in their room very happily with the trains and track most of the day. Which made it very nice for me because I was hoping to get some sewing done and I was able to, and even got more done than I had planned!! I needed to make Emily a slip to go under some of her dresses, because it is very difficult to find little girls slips, and when you do it's hard to know what size to buy because they make things so short, so that's been on my sewing list for quite a while, so I was able to get that done. Then Luke only had one pair of summer pajamas and I had put them in the laundry and they were stuck in the laundry for three days (usually I try to wash them and dry them in the same day, so he can wear them again, but I got behind) so I had already decided I was going to make him some more pajama pants. I had two remnants of material that I had picked up somewhere along the way and I thought one of them would be long enough-it was a full yard, but due to the stripes, it wouldn't work for pants, but it would work for shorts. So after looking at them both, it ended up that I would have enough to make Luke shorts and matching shorts for Josiah and Timothy. They turned out cute and I was able to finish all three of them!! Leigh  even gave himself a little less to do. He called his recruiters and did a few of his job emails/application/stuff and then he worked on the church's website. HE's been doing their website since they started, but he's had ideas and such that he's wanted to add, take down, change, etc and just hasn't had the time. He hasn't had the time, or some of the info, to do it, so he took a few hours yesterday and worked on it. He seemed pleased with how it was going. I told Mom he had changed it, but I didn't realize he hadn't put it live yet. So if you read this Mom, it won't look different yet. :)  Anyways, we had a nice, fun, relaxing, yet productive day!!

 

Interesting Info.

South Florida traffic is the worst in the state, 15th in the U.S., and will get worse once the economy recovers.  How exciting!! Thankfully, we haven't experienced bad traffic, yet. Although, I'm sure when Leigh starts to work, he will eventually get stuck in it. :)

New places, new faces, cont.

We moved to Fort Lauderdale, FL on August 1, 2011. This was a move that had been in the "works" for quite a while. Some friends of ours started a church in May of 2006 and had been "pestering" us to move down and help them. I, personally, was not inclined to move anywhere. I liked where we lived, my sisters lived in town, and my parents weren't far away either. Leigh's family was only a days drive away and one of his  brothers had just moved down.
Everything I had ever heard about Fort Lauderdale was bad. "It's a wicked city", "there's blatant "sin" ", "there's awful stores on every street corner", etc. I'm also not a big fan of large cities and interstate driving to get to where I want to go. Some other questions consisted of  How do I shelter and protect my children the way I think I should, when there's other kids in the church who aren't taught to not use certain words, hand gestures, etc., or Will there be any kids in the church so my kids will even Have friends?, etc. etc..I don't know Your friends very well, I don't know anybody, etc.. I also had other questions, concerns, complaints, mostly excuses, as to why we Should Not move.
Of course I didn't know I had all these excuses, until my dear Leigh tells me one day in September of 2006 on our way home after Sunday night church, that he thought God wanted us to move to Fort Lauderdale. So, out came my "reasons" about why it was not a good idea and why we shouldn't move. I wasn't totally against it, to the point of saying , "No, I'm not going" I just wanted him to be sure and to hear my reasons as to why I didn't want to. We decided to test the waters so to speak and go down and visit and show our support for our friends endeavor. So we went down in October of 2006, saw their house, saw the church, met the people-the few that were there, went to a youth activity at the beach, rode the church van, attended a service with the pastor, his wife, and I think 4 or 5 other people.
We came home and I said, "When do we pack??" and Leigh said, "No, we're not supposed to move down there now." (We also went down in December of 2009, just to visit) So after that, every December, I asked Leigh if he would be resigning his contract in January, or if this would be the year that we would move. Well, last year, in October 2010, Leigh told me that he felt this year was the year that God wanted us to come down to Fort Lauderdale and try to be a help to his friend. So we waited until after contract signing came and went, because we wanted to make sure there weren't any red flags, to say for sure that we were moving. Our house went on the market in March and had a signed contract in May, even with the allowance that we would like to stay in it until the end of July; came to Lauderdale the second week of July to find somewhere to rent, signed a rent contract the day we left Lauderdale to come back to Pensacola, and moved down a week later, and closed on our house on Aug 8. So that is the where, when, how, and why we ended up down here. We both have a complete peace that this is where we are supposed to be. We're excited about what God's doing in our lives and in the church. And it's been neat to see how God has worked everything out so far. Since this has been rather long, I'll wait to share some other things for another post. :)

Funny kid

So, today after I finished my teaching for school, I started decorating J's birthday cake. It was before lunch and since we only had two pieces of bread left, I thought I would let J pick whether he wanted a sandwich or macaroni and cheese for lunch. He has had birthday on the mind this week because E had her birthday last Saturday, and his is the day after (although that doesn't quite register for him yet), and he was excited because I was making his cake. So I asked him, "J, would you like a sandwich or macaroni and cheese for lunch?" He gets a funny look on his face, like he's trying to decide, pauses for a few seconds, and says, "CAKE!!!!"  I told him he couldn't have cake, and asked him again and his answer was "nothing."  After a little more conversation he finally decided on a sandwich. :)

New places, new faces

So, it's been over a year, since I put anything on here. I think it's called getting to busy with things.....
Anyways, a lot has happened since my last post and we have moved to Fort Lauderale, Florida. The name of my blog use to be Ponderings from Pensacola, but obviously I had to come up with a new name. There are not any synonyms for Ponderings that start with F, hence the new title. We'll see if I can keep up with better. :)