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Summer 2019

I’m sure my husband would want to regrow his hair just so he can pull it out, if he lived with my family…so there, we’re even.  We’d be bald-headed together actually. Although this summer DID NOT go as planned, we survived.  We survived everything that life threw our way as we will continue to do.

There was so much that happened this summer and I haven’t written about nurthin!  Not a got dang thing!  For some reason I lost my motivation to share what was happening.  Thankfully, as teachers, my Huz-band and I get to have a summer break.  This year there wasn’t anything too exciting going on.  We did go putt-putt golfing, which was actually fun despite feeling as if we were playing golf in a sauna. I got my nose pierced, which is something I have wanted to do for a while.  It wasn’t planned, and the Huz-band did dare me so I had to do it.

I also got to watch Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix with a live Orchestra which is ALWAYS something to look forward too.  But those summer dreams that I had planned in my mind, didn’t happen.  They all melted away in the hot Texas heat.  Things happened, but not what I planned.  For example, the Huz-band and I unexpectedly had to move.  Thankfully we found a home in our neighborhood, so that worked out, but for three weeks this move allowed us to become closer as a family.  What I mean is, we had to stay with family :-).

Thankfully it worked out, but it was umm, an experience.  You know how in the Bible, Jesus promises his followers that he would never leave them nor forsake them? Well this felt like Jesus had let go of the wheel and was now trying to hitch-hike for another ride.  We stayed with the Huz-band’s family.  This isn’t a bad thing, but you know what it’s like to live with other adults.  Especially those you weren’t raised with, soooo yeah.  Nothing was wrong, it was just different.  They can tend to do things that are unfamiliar.  I am sometimes uncomfortable with change, and this was one of those times.  I’m sure my husband would want to regrow his hair just so he can pull it out, if he lived with my family…so there, we’re even.  We’d be bald-headed together actually.

 

We were able to get away for a little, little bit.  That was nice.  It was nowhere exotic or too exciting for some, but it was for me.  I got to visit Home, to the greatest city in the state!  We went shopping, visited my old stomping grounds, tried new restaurants, and was even able to visit a college buddy that recently moved back to the city.

Other things that happened this summer was my husband’s brother moved back to town from Florida with his wife and then school started.  In trying to find the positive from this summer, we were able to stay 3 weeks somewhere for free and at least the stress of the “last minute in a hurry packing” happened during the summer and not during the school year.  I just don’t know how that would have worked.   Brother and his wife were actually supposed to move sooner, and if they had, things would have been more chaotic because they were supposed to stay with the family member we stayed with. So I guess Jesus didn’t let go of the wheel after all.  

Although this summer DID NOT go as planned, we survived.  We survived everything that life threw our way as we will continue to do.  Even when it may not look like it, God still has a way of working things out.  I don’t understand why the things happened that happened, but I learned that all things really do work together for good, to them that love God (Romans 8:28).  Amen…God is Good!

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Hello SUMMER my Old Friend…

I wonder if the school year is 9 months to parallel the stages of pregnancy. In the first few months, teachers are excited about the new school year, like a mother after discovering she is with child.  Closer to the end of the pregnancy mothers become tired of being pregnant and begin to look forward to school being over, I mean having the baby.

Summer officially begins June 21, but for me it has already begun.  I am a teacher, so part of my job is to have a summer break.  Like I tell my students, we teachers, are more excited about summer break than students.  They, like the rest of non-educators, do not realize all that goes into the 9 months of the school year.

Side note: I wonder if the school year is 9 months to parallel the stages of pregnancy. In the first few months, teachers are excited about the new school year, like a mother after discovering she is with child.  Closer to the end of the pregnancy mothers become tired of being pregnant and begin to look forward to school being over, I mean having the baby.

For many educators, the school year may last longer than 9 months, because there are often Professional Developments (P.D.) that we are often encouraged to attend, and no they do not come with any extra pay.  Overtime??? Fuh-get-a-bout-it; unless you decide to teach summer school. ☹️…😭

Many teachers love their jobs and quietly deal with ALL that comes with the responsibility of dealing with a stranger’s child.  Some are here for the check (survival needs you know), and a few are still in search of why they stumbled into this career in the first place.  They are still searching for that “thing” that made them proudly want to proclaim, “Yes!  I want to be an educator!,” but that is another post, for another day….

So as I said, MY SUMMER HAS FINALLY BEGUN!!!!!  My plans you ask??? Uhhhh, to do absolutely nothing! Can’t you see my big Grinch smile slyly sliding across my face?  Usually my huz-band and I travel, by Cruise, Plane, Train, or Automobile during our summer break, but I am over traveling this year.  I would prefer to enjoy my home.  Last summer we had just moved into our new home in a new area.  Within a month we had visited family in Mississippi, Florida, and the Washington/D.C.-Baltimore area.  Now, I know that many of you thought, “Florida??? That’s a vacation right there.”  Normally that may be the case, but this time, it wasn’t. There was just too much happening down there for it to be a relaxing vacay.

Soon after our return home, we had to prepare for school.  School began with a lunar eclipse and Hurricane Harvey in the same week.  Harvey’s visit instantly led to me, my husband, and my 2 puppy boys sharing our brand-new home with my mother-in-law and lil’ sissy-in-law.  We were all together from September until about mid-January while the damages brought on to their home from the hurricane’s flooding had been repaired.  It was a very close time…for ALL of us.😇

So this summer, I would like to enjoy my home and get to know this new area I live in.  I can’t wait to have the time to read, write, sleep, workout, blog, and to Netflix.  I look forward to spending time with my huz-band and pups.  Most importantly, this summer I am excited to do whatever I want! (Grinch smile back in progress)

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