1. I got a job teaching 2nd grade. I may work 40 hours a week, but any teacher knows it's more like 60+ hours a week. It's never ending. You go to work and come home and do more work. You never stop thinking about the kids and ways to try and improve your teaching. You dream about the kids, you talk about school, you pinterest for school...your life if school! lol
2. I started baking a lot more and have been selling my goodies! This has been a great stress relief and good extra income! Check out Sweets by Jenn on facebook :)
3. I lead the 2-3 yr old class at church and even though it's hard sometimes I love those kids and I love telling them about Jesus every week!
4. My first year of teaching has been 1000 times harder than I ever thought it would be. I thought about blogging about this almost every week, but I don't want this blog to be a depressing place where I complain about my job. That's one big reason I haven't blogged in 7 months!
5. I started attending a great community group and have made some amazing new friends! :) I always look forward to Tuesdays now!
6. I miss my best friend like crazy, but we talk every single day!
7 It's been a major adjustment living at home, but I am 99.9% sure I'm moving in with a friend this summer. Yippie!! :)
8. I have lost 26 pounds since August. Eating healthy and working out baby! Still have quite a few pounds to go, but it's a journey that I take day by day, pound by pound!
9. I still want so badly to fall in love, get married, and have babies but I am actually content in that area of my life waiting on God's timing. I know that God will bring my husband into my life in His timing and not mine. Honestly, it's been good that I am so busy because I don't have much time to sit and think about how lonely I am and how nice it would be to have a man in my life. It WILL happen, but while I wait I'm just learning to trust God in the everyday things of life.
10. The real world is hard! lol These past 7 months have been very trying! Learning how to make and actually follow a budget is hard. I love to shop, and it's been an adjustments realizing I can't just go shopping when I have bills to pay! Learning how to manage my time to be able to work out, plan healthy meals, spend time with Jesus, have some sort of social life, and be a great teacher is hard. It's nothing like college was. It's so much better and not quite as good at the same time. I don't miss school, but I miss Gainesville, friends, staying up until the wee hours just watching TV with my roomies or baking cookies, going to football games, Mexico Lindo, Barnies, and First Assembly.
Well, I don't know if I succeeded in making that very short, but hey it's hard to sum up 7 months in a few paragraphs! I will definitely be back soon and it will not be 7 months before I post again! This teacher is tired and it is way past her bedtime! My prayer for you is that you are relentlessly pursing Jesus this week and laying down your life everyday. Make a conscious decision each morning that you will live your life for Him today and may your actions and words be used to glorify Him! Goodnight friends! Love ya'll! :)
