Just over a week ago, Justin was interviewed for a job in Glenwood. On his way home from the interview, they called him on his cell phone and offered him the job! Woooohooooo!! We are so excited to finally have work! He’ll be teaching Grade 5 in Glenwood. Although he would prefer a couple grades higher, we are really excited he’s in the Westiwinds Division, as that is the division he really wants to teach in. So hopefully this is a good “foot in the door” job for him. He’s covering for a maternity leave, so it’s just contracted till the end of the school year. But that’s ok…its something! He’s been kept quite busy with subbing up until now as well…we’ve been SO blessed!
We don’t really want to take Russell out of school, and it is a temporary contract, so we will most likely not make any big moves. However if rent goes up too much here, we won’t be staying…at least in this house! We’ll see how it goes and make our decisions carefully and prayerfully. Just the fact that getting out of this tiny place is actually going to happen (even if it isn’t for a little while), makes living here more bearable! Like there’s light at the end of this very squishy tunnel! Things around here are really different (extra busy), as I’m trying to adjust to Justin’s 12 hour days. We hardly ever see him anymore! As soon as he gets home he tries to spend some time with the kids right before they have to go to bed, and then he’s back to work on the computer preparing. I expect it’ll be crazy like this for quite a while. This past week was especially hard though cause I was sick for 3-4 days. No, not with H1N1…just the regular flu. Bryn had some high fevers there for a little while too, and Russell and Asher had colds, but we are all feeling somewhat better now.
In other news…Russell made me proud the other day. In Kindergarten he’s been going to gymnastics – only 4 times, but I was a driver for their class, and it was a good thing. Russell is quite shy and needs a lot of encouraging to believe that he can do anything. Especially when it comes go going to new places and trying new things. Anyways, such was the case at gymnastics. Long story short, he absolutely refused to go in the foam pit every time…like he’d start crying even when I just wanted to talk to him about it. On his last day there, I got him to go in! Woohoo! (Ok, I’ll admit, part of the reason I wanted him to go in so bad is because that is the only way I would get to try it! And yes, it was fun…although since Russell would only stay in one place and hanging on to the foam blocks for dear life, I wasn’t able to climb around in it like I had hoped!) But on the other hand, I was actually really proud of him for going in and just trying it. Small as it seems, it was a big accomplishment for him! I only had my cell phone with me so the pics are pretty bad but it’s the best I could do.
Gymnastics - doing some stretching
In the foam pit!!! (If you look close at his hands you can tell he's hanging on for dear life!)
Getting his medal
Abby said
Hoooray!!!! Congrats on the job!!!! And Hooray for Russell!!!!!! (that sounds alot like Parker by the way)