Today was the first day of "Mondays are Fun Days" at the church and I think it actually went pretty well. My group consists of 11 kids-3 boys and 8 girls. One of the boys wasn't there today, so the boys were even more outnumbered than they usually would be. Pretty much everything went off without a hitch though. My girls are a bunch of sweethearts who became attached to me very quickly. They did have a hard time grasping the fact that Jonathan and I were married though; one girl said that I looked like I was 19, thanks, I think...

While we were there Jonathan got to talk to the leader of a ranch here in town that does therapy for children with special needs by letting them ride horses. It's an amazing ministry that God has really blessed in the past few years! They have been able to make huge strides in the lives of these kids not only physically, but also spiritually! Jonathan worked out there for a summer right after he graduated, and absolutely loved it, and has been interested in volunteering since then. After talking to Sam, (aforementioned leader at the ranch), we are now signed up to volunteer every Wednesday from 8:30-noon! We're both very excited to take on this ministry opportunity as well! We were talking in the car on the way home from the church this afternoon about how great we both feel about both of these opportunities we've taken on in the past week. Sometimes things just feel right!

Today I called one of the school districts I've applied for some jobs at to see if I could check the status of my application. AKA, calling to see if I could get them to check out my application to see if something on my resume would catch their attention. No such luck, the recruiter was out of the office until tomorrow. I left a message in my most professional phone voice, so hopefully, they'll hear it, see how fabulous I sound, check out my awesome resume and call me immediately to schedule an interview. Wishful thinking I'm sure, but hey, a girl can dream can't she?

Jonathan has apparently come down with a cold. He started complaining last night that his stomach didn't feel quite right, but he blamed it on the frozen pizza we had for dinner. This morning he got up and played his normal Monday morning golf game, but didn't feel well again at lunch time, once again blaming it on the leftover pizza he had for breakfast. We got home tonight and ate hot dogs for dinner, (I sound like an awful wife right about now feeding my husband that doesn't feel well pizza and hot dogs, wow), and afterwards he complained a little bit more about not feeling too well. Here's where I'm really going to sound like an awful wife, I really didn't pay too much attention to the poor guy. I guess maybe it's because I deal with stomach issues as part of my everyday life, I just take my medicine and learn to deal with them, that I never thought anything would actually be wrong with him. Well, fast forward about an hour, Jonathan came in here with a thermometer that read 100.3, and telling me how he was just sitting on the couch freezing, (its 78 in our apartment right now), while he was wrapped up in a blanket watching TV. I thought he was reenacting his freezing on the couch, but he could not stop shivering. So, I immediately ordered him to bed. Now, I am going to go try to redeem myself as a loving, caring person that I'm sure still exists down deep inside, and not some awful witch of a wife who has been ignoring her sick husband's complaining for the past 28 hours.

Goodnight and God Bless,
Jennifer

"Be the change you want to see in the world." - Mahatma Ghandi
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On the Bandwagon

Welcome! Hopefully I will be able to keep this blog up and running to keep people a little more informed about our lives. We both used to have xangas back in the day, and were decently good at keeping up with them until Facebook took over the world and Xanga took a backseat. I've been reading blogs of a few of our friends for a while, and finally decided I would hop on board! I think that keeping journals is a fantastic way to record memories for yourself and family; and if keeping an online journal makes things easier for me, then I'm up for the task!

Our life together has been really great lately. We have been blessed to be able to spend so much time together in the recent weeks, something that used to be unheard of for us! Jonathan is still working at the hospital and loving his job, and I am currently trying to find a new job. After not working full-time for a year now, (it's crazy how fast that FLEW by!), I'm ready to go back to work. We knew that when I quit my job last year that it would only be temporary and that I would go back to work when Jonathan's schedule finally straightened out and we would be able to see each other again. Well, now that he's only working Friday, Saturday and Sunday, I would definitely say that goal has been reached! It's been wonderful for him to be home with me 4 days a week, but it's time for me to get back to my life and career that I've had on hold for the past year. I'm excited about this transition, but also very nervous. The economy seems like it's number one on everyone's radar lately and I keep hearing about how people are losing their jobs all the time. We're just praying that I will be able to find something that I will love and still make some decent money at in the near future.

In the mean time I've been worknig at the church a lot more recently. Tomorrow begins "Mondays are Fun Days" where we bus some kids from a rougher part of town over to the church for an after school program Monday afternoons. We give them an activity to do, do some worship songs, have a Bible lesson, and feed them dinner, all within 2 hours! This is the 3rd year for the program, but for the past two years it has been at another church across town. Our church agreed to take ownership of the program this year because we have a great place to let the kids play, and have some great help. I've never helped with this before, and was somehow put in charge of a group of kids, so I'm incredibly nervous about tomorrow! This year we have over 60 children signed up for the program! It should be an experience trying to reach these kids because they come from such different backgrounds, but I have confidence that the Lord will work through this program to reach these kids! Last year 10 children came to know the Lord through the program and we are hoping and praying to reach even more this year! Please keep the church, these kids, and all the workers in your prayers as we attempt to take on this endeavor!

Well, for a first post I think this went pretty well. What do you think? I've always been able to write pretty easily about everything. Probably a little too easily, I tend to write entirely too much usually!!

"I see skies of blue, and clouds of white
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world."