My plan is for this to be a temporary thing, to move out and find a teaching job in the fall, but you know how plans are.
Not that I dislike being at home, or don't love living with my family, it just wasn't at all what I was expecting or mentally preparing for this summer. I just don't want to be that person; the college graduate that moves home "just for a little while" but ends up living with my parents indefinitely. Also, I basically have no friends at all that are my age in Pine Bluff.
At first, I was disappointed, and felt like this would be a waste of a summer. But the more I thought about the things that could potentially await me, the more excited I became about the potential of the freedom of living in my parents house.
No paying rent.
No buying groceries.
A summer job waiting for me (teaching swimming lessons, which I LOVE).
It was starting to sound not so bad. I made this to do list for the summer, and I'm starting to get excited about it :)
Write Letters
Cook
Create
Organize
Purge
Exercise
Reflect
Play
Scrapbook
Simplify
Travel
Downsize
Serve
I want to look for opportunities to serve my family, the people I most often overlook when it comes to serving. I want to get re-involved in the church I grew up in. I want to play and travel and make the most of this short season of my life when I am practically free of responsibilities.
So, although I definitely didn't see this coming, the Lord is opening my eyes to the adventures that await me.
I'm excited :)
1 comment:
cant believe you teach swim lessons! i taught swim lessons for about 5 years. and i desperately miss it! hold on to that. its the one thing i wish i still had to go back to every summer...
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