1. Work- in October I started working at the Lake Geneva Pie Company. Samantha had been working there since August, but they really needed a dishwasher. So I applied for their busy season (until Christmas). I work Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday 12-6. It was hard the first few weeks. I was tired. I felt like I had no life outside work. It was annoying to have to ask off to do things I previously just, well, just did. But I got used to it, did more than wash dishes. After New Year's we (my parents, my boss, and I) agreed I'd work Monday 12-6 and Tuesday 11-6. So that is what I do. I don't mind working anymore. Yeah, sometimes I get tired of it, but as a whole, I don't mind. Now I do anything from washing dishes, mopping floors, ringing customers up, making cookies, breads, muffins, brownies, cleaning tile grout, baseboards, carts, tables, chairs. Pretty much anything that needs done. I've even babysat the one bosses baby for an hour or so...... =)
2. School-this year I have a pretty light load for school. My main focus is on English. Not my favorite subject! I don't enjoy all the writing assignments. I don't always remember what word in what sentence is what part. I don't agree when the teacher tells me how great it is that one word can be multiple parts of speech. But I do it. I get it done. I don't die. I don't even have serious problems from doing it. (Side note: I started school the very same day as I started work. THAT was an overload. Go from summertime nothingness to working 4 days a week, trying to get all your school done, adjusting to a new chore schedule that wasn't exactly planned for your work schedule.....it was long few weeks)
3.Camp-I've worked with Samantha at several different retreats though-out the fall and winter. Almost everytime there was a retreat, we were there. I even went once without Samantha. That was kinda strange.....being at camp without her. I really enjoy working at camp. It is especially fun since I've seen some of my friends that live far away several times too! And I see it as a ministry. Even if I don't see my friends. Even if it's a little boring. Even if I don't really get paid. I know at least one person is benifiting from it. And God is being honored. "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving." (Colossians 3:23-24) I know when I am serving God, He is being honored.
4. Family-I went to the state fair this year (well, actually last year....) with Samantha & Emily and Lauren. I've gone shopping with them, seen a movie with them, went to the fair with them, hung out in our room with them, argued with them, laughed with them, gotten angry with them, come up with some great ideas with them. Made memories with them. As a family we did our pre-fair judging, went to the fair, had Grandma Trish come for the first time in a year. The first time since her battle with cancer. What fun that was! She stayed for almost two weeks, taking Emily and Pete to VA with her, and allowing time for Mommy and Daddy to go Door County with only Lillian. We went to the fall work weekend at camp, we've gone to church, celebrated Thanksgiving, celebrated Christmas, celebrated birthdays. My 16th birthday in August, Grandma's in September when she was here, Laurel's 7th in November, Joy's 9th birthday on Christmas Eve, Daniel's 11th in January, Mommy's a few weeks ago, and soon it'll be Lillian's 2nd birthday. We've had our ups and downs, but we've done our school, laughed at the childish ways of our "baby" sister, been frustrated at each other, argued, laughed, and lived as a family of 11 does.
When I think back to July (the last time I posted), it almost seems like years ago.....so much has happened since then. So much to change us as people. So much to show us who we really are. And in reality, it's been half a year. February marks the halfway point to my birthday, the halfway point to when school starts again, the halfway point until summer is over. It marks the point when we begin to get excited about spring, when we start counting the lessons and days until we're done with school, when we plan what we want to do in the summer. It amazes me as I consider what I done, what I've learned, what I've disliked, what I've been frustrated about, what I've laughed about, what I've struggled with-how God was there, how God helped me and showed me His great power and awesomeness. I've had my times of great longing to know Him more and my times of carelessness with my relationship with Him. But through it all He has been there, has loved me, has cared for me.
Psalm 1
Blessed is the man
Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly,
Nor stands in the path of sinners,
Nor sits in the seat of the scornful,
But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
And in His law he meditates day and night,
He shall be like a tree
Planted by the rivers of water,
That brings forth its fruit in its season,
Whose leaf also shall not wither;
And whatever he does shall prosper.
The ungodly are not so,
But are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment,
Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
For the LORD knows the way of the righteous,
But the way of the ungodly shall perish.
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