Engaged - Incomplete

Friday night I got a text from my very good friend, Pam: "I'M ENGAGED!!!! :-)" She (and I) knew it would happen sometime this year, but she (we) was so surprised by this proposal. Alex flew out to Boston to surprise her and successfully came back engaged. They are a wonderful couple with God at the very center of their relationship. I love them both so much and I couldn't be happier for them.

Despite an overabundance of joy for my friends, I must confess that I did have to fight some feelings of being inadequate and incomplete in my singleness. I know these thoughts are lies; I have been made complete by Jesus' sacrifice on the Cross and I am accepted and loved by God (which I had to continually remind myself of this weekend). Nevertheless, these horrible thoughts entered my mind and I have been struggling to overcome them. It doesn't help that the world and everything around me tells me that I am incomplete as a single woman. But I am pushing through it and am trying to focus on the great things that God is doing around and through me; not to mention how happy I am for the soon to be Pam and Alex Vaughn.

Ring Around The Rosey

Life is in full swing right now and I don't really know where the time has gone... It's almost March and it's almost time for Spring Breaks... School has been going well so far. It's interesting shifting from taking pretty heavy Math loads to taking heavy everything else loads. Studying and learning stuff for Math classes is a totally different process for me then studying and learning stuff for any other class. It is nice to be tutoring though and keeping up with my upper division math memory. I do like my classes and I am looking forward to start doing my classroom observation hours (which I will start next week and try to complete within a span of about 3-4 weeks...).

When I am not at school, I have been doing a lot of babysitting which is a little surprising. The last two weeks in a row, I have spent the day with my 9 month old cousin Noah while his parents were at work. He's super cute and a fun age to play with.

I have also been watching my cousin's 3 month old baby Hailey. It's fun to see how much a couple of months can make in an infant. Hailey is at that stage where all she does is eat, sleep, smile, and then sleep some more.

But she is too cute so I can't really complain. Monday my parents were watching Hailey and her older brother Jameson so I took off school early to go hang out with them as well. Jameson LOVES his Uncle David so much and follows him around everywhere.

Whatever Uncle David does, he does. Whatever Uncle David eats, he wants to eat...

By the end of the day they both were so tired, they passed out on the floor. The kid is just too cute and it makes me very excited to see my parents as grandparents (excited... but I'm in no rush...)

It's been a fun break from school and work and I hope to have the opportunity to continue watching these kids.

Applied

Well, it's been awhile since I have updated this here blog of mine. I guess I've just been preoccupied with the new semester and trying to figure out all of my observation stuff (or I just haven't really had anything interesting to say...).

I had to take a minute though to let everyone know that yesterday I turned in my application to graduate Fall 2011. I am very excited at the prospect of finally graduating and am praying that there are no surprises in the courses that I think I have to take next semester.

As far as this semester goes, I am settling in nicely. 18 units is kinda a lot and I have kinda had a rough time getting myself motivated to do stuff (standard), but it's week 4 and it's time to get my butt in gear. After all, I'll be graduating soon...