General Update

I bought a car a few weeks ago. It rocks. I love driving a car that I can actually depend on to get me from my house to the high school, 5 miles away. I wasn't ever too sure I would make it with my old car. :)

We are two days away from the end of first trimester at school. Holy smokes! A LOT has to happen in the next 5 days between finishing this trimester and preparing for the next one. I'm not sure it's all going to get done, or how. Yikes. STMA hired a new math teacher part time for next tri, which means smaller class sizes for Kendra! Yay! Also - three preps for the first time ever..oh boy.

I'm going to be moving! SO happy. It's time. The Lord is good to provide roommates and an affordable place for us to live. I'm looking forward to this change. I'll be living with another math teacher who goes to my church and is in my small group, and one of her coworkers. I'm excited for the XBox Kinect and game nights and dancing to come!

I'll be coaching JO volleyball again this winter. It's my mission to set some boundaries for myself, but those 12 year olds are going to be worth my time, I can already tell.

Along the lines of setting boundaries, I want to learn to say no to some things. I won't be tutoring at Sylvan anymore. I'd like to be more involved with church stuff, but that might not be possible until after Christmas break. We'll see.

I feel like I will need to begin making some decisions pretty soon about what to do next year. I'm not sure if there will be a job opening in St. Michael, or if it would be a full time deal. I confess that the idea of living in Monticello, MN for the next 40 years and becoming a suburban mom doesn't sound super fun at the moment. I'll be honest-I'm not really convinced that I want to be a teacher for the next 40 years either. Maybe I'll get my Masters in guidance counseling. I'd like to maybe do something adventurous. Maybe. Or maybe I am a little bit terrified of that idea too. I'm not really sure what I want. In general, I feel kind of direction-less and that is probably the scariest part of all.

Oi. The past couple of months have been pretty stressful and I'm not always super thrilled about being an adult and making lots of decisions. It seems that it might get worse for a little bit before it gets better. I guess there's only one way to learn these kinds of things, and it's good to learn them. I just wish I was a little better at keeping up.