update

Long time, no post

So what have I been up to, hmm where to start.

I have been accepted into the CLA REV Internship so will be busy with that for the next year. This last weekend we had a retreat together to get to know each other and what the Internship will involve. We went to Seymour - it was absolutely amazing and so much fun. So it looks like we will be in Langley Monday and Wednesday and in Maple Ridge on Thursdays and a combination of the two on Sunday's. I am so excited for the year and to see what God has in store for me and the others. I am looking forward to seeing where God will lead me as well as the others and to see how much we grow. I believe that God is going to take us farther than we can imagine. So stoked.

In other news I have been promoted to Grade 5 in Sunday school - which is exciting because I will have the same group of kids that I had this summer. I was just starting to get to know them and their personalities and am really looking forward to getting to know them more and watch them develop.

I spent today applying for jobs and was hired on the spot at A&W and start tomorrow. It will definatley be interesting. I will be starting in the kitchen but will also recieve training for the storefront. I am not really excited about the job so far but am going to still give it my all. I beleive that God has opened the door and given me this opportunity for a reason so I want to be obedient to His voice and leading. So I will stick it out until something else comes up and I know that I am to move on. Then again once I start I might find that I absolutely love it and never want to work anywhere else, but I am not going to hold my breath.

God bless all and I will update you more later. FYI - comments are appreciated

Where has the time gone

Wow I find it difficult to believe that it is already August. I am now settled in Maple Ridge again and am adjusting to living back with my parents. So far it has been pretty good but then I have not been home that much either. I spend most of my time at my sister's taking care of my nephew. I love spending my days with him, they are rarely boring or predictable. I feel very blessed to have been given this opportunity to spend time with him and bond with him since I missed so much of his first year.

I have started teaching sunday school again and am having a ball. I continue to be amazed at the wisdom of children, they can be so profound sometimes. This week coming up is VBS with the theme of Power Lab and I am so excited and glad to be helping out. Although I know that I will be exhasted by the end of the week with helping with the VBS in the mornings and then taking care of my nephew in the afternoons. But it will be fun and I will enjoy every minute of it.

I will crash on Saturday and sleep most of the day then head to REV camp on Sunday for six days. REV camp is the talk of the church in the summer and I am looking forward to going, as I have never been before. Since I am to old to actually go to camp I am going as a volunteer in the kitchen which will be great, reminicent of Timberline. Ahh memories.

September 5 I start the REV Internship that I applied for and I am so excited but also a little apprehensive as it will stretch me and challange me so much but I am ready. More info to follow on this program once I get started and settled into a routine.

Life is great and I am loving every minute of it. God Bless

hey from me and the kid

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hope everything is good with you. If this post id strange it is nn because my 1 year old nephew is helping me type.

I am doing great and am having a blast with him this summer. Tonight we are staying at my parents and will probably go to the water park tomorrow for the first time. He loves his pool and bath so he should have a good time. We have errands to do tomorrow as well. We will probably take the bus into town, which will be an adventure.

I started teaching Sunday School today and it was amazing. I ha0d 9 kids in grade 4 which was lots of fun. It is such a joy to teach them again. It is interesting mm nsince I had many of the same kids in my age 4 and 5 class that I taught before I moved away for school. 0.

Well the family is leaving for the night after a f2amily dinner for all the bir0th2017days aroun0d th2is 22222time. So we better go and say goodbye.

Talk to
you later. Love 5you a5trnd hhhhGodBless.

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settled and busy

Okay so I have been back for a week now and am finally feeling settled in. I spend three days last week with my nephew. It was a ton of fun although he is teething so is kinda cranky. I am looking forward to starting a regular schedual with him next week since last week was crazy and messed up with it being my sister's first week back at work and this week is messed up with the holiday. I am so busy the next few days I do not know when I will get all the errands done that I need to. Lets see here is my schedual, so far, for the next week.

Today - Canada Day - family BBQ from 2-5, also need to finish a paper
Tomorrow - help dad with papers during the day and REV in the evening
Thursday - meetings with Doug, Justin, and Pastor Antonio (hopefully I can catch all three) then to my sister's in the evening
Friday - babysit all day and spend the evening at my sister's
Saturday - scrapbooking for Autism with my sister
Sunday - Church then to my sister's for the night
Monday - Wednesday - babysitting all day and spending the nights at my sisters
Wednesday night - REV

Busy but should be fun. Sometime before saturday I need to get my Japan pictures printed and buy a scrapbook for them so that I can start it at the scrapbooking day. I also need to get into my storage unit and organize it as well as pick up some things that got dropped off there by mistake, such as my coffee cup, my jewlery, and all my hair stuff. I also need to apply for jobs. I am planning on working at Tim Hortons near my sister's house (since I have been told that I am basically guaranteed a job there) Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday nights since I will be in that area. Then I need to get another part time job closer to my parents for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday while I am in that area. Hopefully this will give me enough to put money into savings to start paying off student loans and to pay the bills in the fall cause if I get accepeted into the intership I will not be able to work more than 10 hours a week so need to save as much this summer as I possibly can.

Well I better go and work on my paper but I will touch base with you later. Love you and God Bless.

sorry

To my family

I am sorry if I hurt any of you in the last post. I was upset and frustrated and was not very nice. I am sorry. I love you all.

family frustrations

So I am moving in two days and it has been planned for three weeks that mom will come and help me on friday and dad and my brother will come on saturday to load and move everything. Well then my brothers girlfriend wanted to come and that meant three vehicles, so then mom wasn't going to come. Then this morning my mom calls to tell me she is coming even if it means that there will be 3 vehicles because she doesn't want to cause conflict and put my brother in the middle of it. But yet it is apparently okay to put me in the middle of it since I have recieved calls from basically every member of my family complaining about the situation and wanting me to deal with it even though I am no where near any of them. I also do not understand why my sister is involved and is so uptight and stressed about it when she has nothing to do with the moving and has never planned to come and help so it does not affect her plans at all. As much as I love my family there are times when I wish I could just walk away and no longer have a family. But then I miss them and I love them to much to leave them.

So I move in two days but I am not sure exactly how it will work or who will be here to help maybe I should just sell all my stuff and move back to the coast on the Greyhound so that there is no conflict for the family to deal with and no one is inconvienced or left out.

hurt and confused

I am amazed at how you can be friends with someone for years and then discover that they really do not know you at all. They have a version of you in their head and chose to remeber things that you say and do to support this vision rather than actually listen to what you are telling them. Since doscovering this I have been analysis my friendships and the views that I have of people and I can not honestly say that I know all are 100% acurate, but then I guess that is the thing - you do not realize you do not know someone until something happens. Although even with the events of the last while I do not know if this friend realize that the image held of me is not acurate. While I was enlightened that this person does not know the real me, is this person being enlightened that they do not really know me? I do not know. Sorry I realize this probably sounds very strange and crazy, but hey that is me so what do you expect.

I am reminded of the song by Jaci Velasquez that goes "This is the real me, am I the girl that you want me to be? This is the real me, Can you face it, Can you feel it, Can you take it, Can you deal with, The real me" (and yes for those of you who know the song there is a line missing because it does not fit with what I am saying). I have spent the last few years discovering for myself who the real me is and I must say I was rather hurt to discover that my friend (maybe more??) does not know who I am.

Now I must get back to packing, oh that is right I am going to watch a movie and have some fun instead. Take care and God bless.