Changes

A few months ago I blogged about hating Tuesdays. I did hate them. I hated all the running around I had to do and how I just never seemed to get anything done at work. Well that is all about to change. Beginning August 7, Tuesday will be a day off for me. A couple of weeks back I aproached my boss about making Sunday a work day for me. For a long time now I have run the computer for our Sunday services and that has never bothered me and I always felt that it was my volunteer time. Slowly things have started to change on Sundays and I have started doing more work before the services start and people from the congregation want me to help them with something or ask questions things like that. My boss was all for me making Sundays a work day and then taking Tuesday off. The board agreed so now on Tuesday I will have some time with just Sophie once the kids are in school. We will save money not having to pay a babysitter. All around it is a great change.

Also on Tuesday, August 7, Justin will begin working at another Donato's location. He has not enjoyed the store that he has been at since late October last year. The store he's moving to is a smaller store and technically a step back, but it is half the distance than he is going now to work. It's in a much better area. He is very excited about the change.

We are still slowly working on getting our house ready to sell. Part of me keeps wondering if we are trying to rush God because this is what we want so much. I don't know. Both Justin and I have wanted out of the house we are sharing with his brother for a while now. The only way to do that is to sell the house because both of their names are on the mortgage. We could refinance but we would rather move somewhere a little more convenient to our jobs and family. We have been working toward getting our house up for sale most of the year. We are actually pretty close now. We are going to clean up the kids rooms and in the process of that move Sophie in with Abbie and give Kaleb his own room. The house won't be perfect but I think that it will be a great home for a family who needs an affordable 5 bedroom home. They are small rooms but the family room is very nice, I just don't spend anytime in it.

I need some pray for my attitude towards our Assistant Pastor here. Stan is a nice guy but when it comes to being an assistant pastor he just doesn't quiet get the job done. There are issues there with learning disabilities that I know I can't fault him for. The biggest problem several people keep having is that he doesn't really put the time in at church. He rarely spends 20 hours a week here and is not held accountable for what he is doing. Many people come to me and complain because I am here and I see things. I keep trying to take myself out of things because I have to work with Stan everyday. I have a hard time though when he complains about not getting full days off because he has to come in for a couple of hours on a friday, which could have been prevented had he spent more than 2 hours here the day before. See this is what I mean. I have a negative attitude toward him right now and it is so hard to change that. Also there are many people who would like to see him gone at the end of the year. There are several people on our governing board who have already told me they will not vote to keep him next year. This is causing other problems in our church and it is hard for me to watch it all and keep silent. The thing is I don't think Stan even knows that there is a problem.

Well I was really going to try to get through this blog without whinning but it didn't happen.

On a side note I was very happy to read in Joe Boyd's blog that he and Debbie will be moving to Cincinnati. That made my day today.

So Much to update

The past few months have been very busy and I think that I am finally seeing the end of it or is it just the beginning of life to come. Abbie graduated from Kindergarten on June 6. It was very cute they were caps and accepted little diplomas. Kaleb finished his first year of pre-school and is ready for Pre-K in the fall. Sophie just turned 2 last Thursday.

This year I was the director of our Vacation Bible School as well as working at the church part-time. It was a lot of time and work but it was all for a great cause. We had an average attendance of 65 kids each day and they had a blast. We do a penny challenge each year with the boys vs. girls to raise money for various outreaches. This year since our VBS was a sports theme we wanted a sport outreach. The kids raised over $1100 to give to Cincinnati CityCURE's D.R.E.A.M. team outreach. We are able to help several urban youth go to basketball camp and buy uniforms for the team. Former UC Bearcat Terry Nelson (he was part of the 92 team that went to the final four) is the director of the D.R.E.A.M. Team for CItyCURE, came and spoke at our closing program. He has a great testimony and is doing so much in the lives of urban youth. The hardest part of the whole week for me was getting up in front of everyone at the closing program. I hate to have all eyes on me but it was good to step out of my comfort zone.

Justin and I both took off work last week so we could get some work done around our house. We are putting it on the market and looking for something by ourselves. Many of you know that my brother-in-law lives with us. We are finally going to move into a house without anyone else living with us or vice versus. It really is a great feeling. Now if we can just find the right house. We took Abbie and Kaleb to King's Island last week too. That was so much fun. They are both able to ride all the kid's rides which there are a ton of. It was nice to get a chance to do something fun like that with them.

Life is crazy but it's good. I am posting several pictures on here. I am going to try harder to update more often.