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i didn't have to work today, so i spent a lot of time working on things around the house. in fact, i'm STILL working on our study...but just got to the point where it's totally overwhelming and decided to blog a bit. as we moved ourselves into each room in our house, all of our extra boxes came to the smallest room in our house: the study! so, now, trying to get things organized in here in just a huge headache. the problem is, it's a lot of study we'll need/want at some point or another. one major thing i just can't quite figure out a place for is all our notes from undergrad classes. honestly, i just threw some of them away, but some of the classes were lifechanging for ryan and i-and i feel like we might want to go back over those notes sometime!! i just came across a paper i wrote when i applied for the counseling program at sebc (in 2005!!). it was neat to read it and see the ways in which i've grown and changed since then..and the ways God has refined my future, too! the past few days, i've really been doing a lot of thinking about life matters, mostly graduate school and what i'm hoping to get out of it and what i'm hoping to do when i finish. my heart is really going two different places, which i have a feeling will connect at some point (though right now, my brain's having a hard time figuring out exactly how...): play therapy and hispanic counseling. i emailed with a very knowledgable source concerning play therapy this week and got some great advice. i had a bit of a freak out the other day at work when someone asked me what i'm studying in grad school. i said, "counseling licensure" and they went on and on about how they'd never heard of such a thing. i've been wondering if i need to be a little more specific in my studies.. but my knowledgable source seemed pretty positive about the track i'm on...i'll just need to take a few extra classes at another school at some point. but it's not a HUGE deal! the hispanic counseling is a little more tricky. the biggie right now is the language...which was so easy to learn while in guatemala, but not so much at home with the busyness of life. but every time i think about hispanic counseling, my heart just screams "yessss!!!" it's a little strange.. i'm not sure i've ever even heard of any counseling services specifically offered to hispanics, but there definitely should be one! they are dealing with some tough things; and those tough things are different in some ways than what "native" americans deal with. anyway, that's where i am right now...we'll see where the Lord leads. something kind of cool: i spoke with our professor at d.s. who is part Guatemalan and he gave me a little direction on us getting involved with a church that has hispanic ministry...so i'm pretty SIKED about that!!
other than my busy brain, things aren't too bad out here...though, don't be fooled! we still miss home terribly! ryan is still looking for a good job fit...he got offered a job at a local ymca yesterday, but the hours weren't really optimal. we are holding out, trusting that the Lord has something just right for him. :)
we were totally excited to find out earlier this week that we are going to be aunts! i have no idea what movie/tv show that came from, but if you've seen it-you surely know what i'm talking about. you know where someone is about to find out if they are going to have a boy or a girl and that person's brother says, "i can't wait to find out if i'm going to be an aunt or an uncle!!" (okay, note, much funnier if you actually see it!). so, yah, my sister-in-law is having a baby girl!!! we can now start planning and looking more specifically.. i almost had ryan talked into stopping by babies 'r us last night just to look for things! ALMOST!! :)
i am getting back into knitting.. i took some time off, especially since it's so warm out, but decided to jump back into it! i really do enjoy it so much. i'm working on my sweater still..hoping to finish it before winter comes! i started another project yesterday that i'm excited about, but frustrated with right now. i'm making some mittens for my sweet mimi for her birthday (sidenote: her birthday is in a few weeks and i know it's going to be WAY too warm for mittens, but she's always enjoyed homemade things...and since we are tight on money, i figured i could make a neat gift for her). i've gotten pretty far on my first mitten, but i'm stuck on the thumb. the pattern called for me to pretty much knit the whole thing and then come back to the thumb...well, now i'm there and i can't get it back going right! (help carol!!! ;))
well, i'm going to get back to my cleaning/organizing!
until next time..
ps check out this rainbow we saw yesterday! it is faint in this picture, but when we first saw it, it was HUGE and brilliant! such a beautiful thing... indeed God's promises are TRUE!!!