a day in the sun

I survived the weekend!  I worked 8 1/2 hours on Friday, 10 1/2 hours on Saturday, and 6 hours on Sunday.  It was so sunny and warm and extremely busy at work!  When I got my schedule for the week on Sunday though, I was a little disappointed to see that I was working 7 hours on Monday, but we got though it and now I don't work again until Friday (with less hours for the entire weekend, but still some long shifts).

Since I didn't start until 3 on Monday, we got out and enjoyed the sun all day!  After some crepes for breakfast, we all went for a walk to the Indianola Country Store and got some coffee and cookies.  Then we walked on the dock for a few minutes and headed home with the plan to go to the beach later that day once the tide went out.  I did a load of laundry and got it out on the line, and then the cousins came out and Shea played with them for a while. 

We had a bunch of hotdogs leftover from a picnic on Sunday, so we decided to have a little bbq picnic in the yard with my sister-in-law (Tawny) and the kids.  So fun to be able to spontaneously do things like that on a normal day!  After lunch, we headed down to the beach.  This is the first time Shea had been out there when it is warm and the tide is out.  Jeremy and I set up camp (we brought my guitar and his djembe drum) and told Shea he could go wherever we could see him.  The beach is HUGE and there was only one other person out, so at first he was like "uuuh, are you sure I'm allowed to do this?" but after a little while he started wandering and playing by himself.

Can you believe we have this amazing beach right across the street?  I was astounded yesterday by the fact that I can go and spend an hour or two on the beach on a day when I have work, and its not a big ordeal, since there is no travel time and we live so close we don't have to pack a million things for a big outing.  LOVE IT.  The tide goes out so far too!  The water was warm in the tide pools and the sand is so soft.  Most peaceful place ever.  And I love how you can see both the Cascades and the Olympics just by turning your head.  Seattle is in the distance on the left, and the land on the right is Bainbridge Island (too bad there isn't a bridge straight across, my commute time would be so much shorter).

Work was low-key and uneventful.  It was at the slower store and I was working with Liz, who is probably one of my favorite co-workers to work with, so it was kind of like being paid to hang out.

But there is some other good news that I am so happy about!  Jeremy got a call yesterday from a family he knows who owns a window washing company.  He's going to start working with them on Wednesday and it looks like it will probably turn into 30+ hours a week or so (probably less to start), making more an hour than I do.  With this job, and still doing his part-time landscaping and the 8 hours a week at the church, he will definitely be able to support us when I stop working.  This also means that once his work becomes regular (we'll see how it goes!), I can start reducing my hours at work and maybe only work 15 or 20 hours a week for now, so we can keep saving money until the baby comes and I stop working completely.  I'm hoping that happens in the next week or two so I can start getting things ready for baby.

Just the other day I was reading my bible and journaling (I tend to write my prayers a lot when I journal) and I was feeling so worn out from work and wanting to just stop and wanting to know why God wasn't letting me stop!  But, knowing that God knew my desires and that He was going to work something out sooner or later gave me such peace.  And then the following week, Jeremy was given this opportunity to work.  Its also so interesting, because I don't think he would've been offered this job if he hadn't reformed the relationship with the owner.  And that happened through him forming the Men's group at the church.  Things happen in community.  It is so important to be part of a community, because God provides so much through it.  I don't know how long we will be here in Indianola, but it is a small and tight-knit community, and I think we are both learning a lot about being part of that, which is the thing we have probably longed for most since we got married.

Anyway, I have had a wonderful morning home with my little boy while Jeremy is mowing lawns today.  I have a pre-natal appointment at 2 and am getting my blood drawn (which is not usually a big deal, but hopefully I don't almost black out again like last time!).  Shea has been so good - we did a fun dinosaur project with stickers, watched a number show together while I knit (pictures to come soon!) and have been playing and reading books all morning.  I cleaned the kitchen, and still have the bedrooms and bathroom to tidy today, but I'm taking it easy because I have 2 more days off to get all this housework done!

LOVE love love hearing what is going on in everyone's lives!