Family Update (and Richmond/jobs plans)

huge, amazing, awesome, spectacular news: my sister is pregnant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am so stoked it’s crazy.  This is my happy place when things get hard    :-)  She’s due November 5th.  I’m back in Richmond August 5th, just in time to start her 3rd trimester.  feels like everyone is preggo..?  I’m so excited to have another neice/nephew it’s ridonkulous!  I hope its a girl  :-D

So, if God wants things to go as I’ve roughly got planned out…this is what the next year of my life looks like:  Moz until August, then Richmond until early 2011, then finally head off to Nashville (or at least a city that is not Richmond, but this is only if I choose to lower my standards –I haven’t chosen this yet though lol).  And then, lol (I realize it’s silly planning thiiiiis far in advance) after about 2 or 3 years in Nashville I’d really love to move to Australia, Melbourne-ish area.

So many people think I’m crazy.  It’s nothing new.  I’ve heard things along the lines of “crazy dreamer” since I was 12.  I dream big :-)  If you don’t dream big then what do you expect out of your life?  Laura and I had a big conversation about this last week, when I was feeling a bit down about dreaming of Nashville.  She’s so lovely :-)  Anyhoo… I need to find a job to support me while I’m in Richmond and I need to find a job in Nashville.  I love how these are just the sorts of things you can’t do on your own.  I’ll only ever find a job with God’s grace and my community’s support.  Life is beautiful :-)

I really want to work with Jen while I’m in Richmond.  That would be amazingly perfect.  She’s just started watching kids in her home so that she can stay home with Kayla and the new baby.  I SO want to do this with her!  I’d also really love to be a nanny.  I know nanny jobs don’t really lead anywhere, they’re certainly not career-starters.  But I’d still love to do to it in Richmond :-)  I’ve got my eye on a place called Youth Villages in Nashville.  I’ve really got a heart for residential care for children/older youth.  Here at the centre we have tias who work 4 days on 3 days off and live here full-time when they’re “on.”  I want to do this in the states.  I feel like I can invest so fully and easily if I live where the kids live.  Youth Villages seems to have this same mission.  Please pray I’ll find something like this in Nashville :o)


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