I don't want this to sound all "feel bad for me" and angsty, but life has been busy lately. I like busy-ness, but the last thing I want is to feel like I'm not taking time to truly enjoy the things that are happening around me. Lately, it has felt like that.
I have had a lot of conversations with friends centered around this idea: Why are we even going to school? And really, why are we getting these college degrees that we may or may not even use? That's a tough one for me to wrap my mind around.
Every Tuesday, I take time out of my busy schedule and I get the honor of visiting... Wait for it... The one and only, West Middle School. I'm just kidding about "the one and only" part... What a generic name right? Whatever, it makes sense if you look at a map.
Anyway, every Tuesday I get to go help in a 6th grade social studies classroom filled with lots of little 11 and 12 year olds. Then I remember. THIS, my friends, is why I am shortening the length of my life and turning my hair gray. I am doing these things to get my degree so I can spend more than just an afternoon every Tuesday with some hormonal pre-teens. Ten years from now I will probably be complaining that these students are the ones turning my hair gray... Funny how that works right?
So that's my good thing. That's just one thing I wanted to share that has been really awesome in the last month and a half. Speaking of the last month and a half, my social media fast in September was awesome. I won't get into it too much, but it was really good to take that break.
ONE MORE GOOD THING. Kind of.
We had the fall retreat last weekend. What a good time to get away and spend with God and my awesome community. I was sick, which is why it was only kind of awesome. I came home with a fever and I'm still recovering, but regardless, it was awesome. Plus, Tyler brought me soup and put up with all of my coughing and sneezing. What a good guy right? To show off how good of a weekend it was, here are some pictures. Credit to Casey Batezel, Margaret Bedwell, and Sarah Bell. I'm not really sure who took which pictures.
