Bad Answers

Okay, I just re-read what I wrote yesterday and realized I went against all I just had told you.  I applied for a job at the high school yesterday.  The job that I had just heard about last night that caused me immediate stomach squirming.  But after thinking about it all day, I think the immediate squirming sensation is from nerves.  The rest of the day I have been kind of excited about it.

I know I don't have a lock on this, but feel like it would be a good fit for me.  I enjoy the folks I'd be working with, and while I'd have preferred to work with (and learn from ) the gal that is leaving Monday I could get along there.  I will just have a LOT to learn!

And my PTA life will have to alter, I think.  I know some people can do it and work full time, and maybe there might be some room for concessions as I'll be at the high school already, but I don't want to take anything for granted. This might be the crisis for our board to step it up a bit more. But I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.

Did you hear that?  I sounded just like my mom.

I could have just as easily said "Fiddly-dee.  I think about that tomarrah."  But then I'd sound like Scarlett O'Hara and I don't generally do that.

Anyway.

I think The Boy and I have his schedule figured out for next year.  It is crazy to think he is going to be a junior.  I remember what Junior boys looked like--Keith, I am talking about you, and Kevin and Patrick, etc....and The Boy doesn't fit that in my head.  But it is hard for me to look at him and see beyond his little-boy expression or goofy accented voices he pulls for me.  His latest?  Bullwinkle, the Moose.  he had work to do on that one.

The Girl received another scholarship yesterday.  This was the one from a PGHS alum who also is a USU alum.  It is a $5,000, one-year non renewable, non-deferrable scholarship.  She did the math last night and figures the monetary value of the scholarships she has earned or received is close to $40K.  We are so blessed.  It is the perfect timing for that kind of blessing.  And she will do well with that kind of send off.  Tuition, books, housing, food and maybe a laptop or tablet computer will all be covered.

We are blessed.

And regardless of what comes with this job application, I feel a renewed hope that things will work out. They always have in the past.  We are doing what we feel the Lord wants us to do and striving to be obedient each day.  I know He blesses us and I know He has heard my prayers about our situation.  I read in the new Ensign yesterday a paragraph that struck me.  It says:

"...Now with that perspective I can look at difficulties with new understanding. I can see that God did provide miracles all along the way that have carried me through. He did not provide me with the miracles that I wanted; He provided me with the miracles that I needed."

Maybe this job opportunity is what I need, rather than what I want right now.   But either way, Iknow we are blessed.  And that is enough for now.