Heading into fall

Life update time!

Marriage: going well! We had a *ahem* rough week last week, between his funny work schedule, my computer and car troubles, and all around moodiness...it was...rough. Yay to a new week! Our September is going to be super busy, so just grateful for any downtime we get together.

Work: I have 3 lovely, spunky, sometimes mischevious one year olds that I watch for a couple hours each morning. I say only a couple hours, even though I work 6:30-10am, because in reality 6:30-7:30 is just watching the preschoolers and grade school kids until my kiddos start trickling in. Then there's breakfast, washing hands/changing diapers/cleaning up food spilt, attempting to herd them towards either the playground or the tumble room unless I really feel brave and try to let them in the classroom the whole time, and then more diaper changing/clean up until the main teacher gets there at 10. They can be stinkers and get the best of me, but their cuddles *do* make up for it, I confess. I wrote my dear friend Emily that this must be God's plan for helping me gain a bit of patience before we have children of our own...not that this is anywhere near parenthood, I know it's only a glimpse in the life, but still...it's definitely revealing of my patience level (or lack thereof).

Volunteering: It goes. I try to stay in the loop, but the doctor kinda does his own thing most of the time and forgets to let me do things for him. I try. I'm more personal assistant than researcher at the moment, which is fine...I just hope some research opportunity comes along at some point.

Le apartment: I'm heading to get my TB test for work, I'll (finally!) post pictures when I return, as I know there was some curiosity from at least one friend about what it looks like here.

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I'm back! Complete with a nice teensy bump on my arm. Anywho....apartment pictures. From one of those rarest of rarest times that things looked tidy all at once.

The living room

Dining room

Kitchen

Kitchen (admittedly, there is a dirty pot hiding behind the fridge in this picture)

Hallway

Desks. Perpetually cluttered, as I still haven't figured out quite how I want to organize my space.

A closer look at our "prayer corner." Of course, complete with our wedding kneeler :-)

Our bedroom

I was working on a puzzle in the office for a few days.

Our porch. If we're here next summer, I'd like to do some potted plants out here, as long as I can get rid of some of the carpenter bees/wasps that hang around.

We have a fireplace. Whether it's usable or not is quite questionable. I'm not sure I would even want a workable fireplace in an apartment. So, it's kinda covered over. With Bible stand, clock, and an engagement pic :-)

Just have to say that it was after I took these (and the apartment got messy again) that we got our wedding pics in the mail, so those are now adorning our living room :-D.

School: I don't know what gave me the great idea to take two core classes that are taught by the same professor in the same semester, but I wish I hadn't set it up for myself that way. Alas. My classes this semester are One and Triune God and Christology. And the readings for both are questions from the Summa. Great. Nothing like some light reading through the week. (Please understand this is dripping with sarcasm.) Both have summaries due Wednesdays and replies to other students' summaries due Saturdays. With kinda crazy expectations for depth of insight. Oi vey. One more year, one more year...