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Things are cuhrazy 'round here. In a few short words: We're moving, within the next 30 days possibly sooner. We've found a loft and are signing a lease on Saturday. We have found someone to lease our house and Drew started his new job this week.

We are moving from a 3 bedroom house with a basement, huge yard, garden, two outdoor buildings, driveway, garden,  and laundry room in the country to a 1 bedroom, 600 square feet loft with stackable laundry in a closet and parking in a parking garage in downtown Roanoke. Hellooooo new lifestyle.

Our next few weeks will be purging furniture, deciding what goes and stays, learning how to get around Roanoke, cleaning, grad school, blocking, and traveling to Pound 6 times to watch my brother play basketball. I'm already tired.

But, God is good and He has left us no doubts that this is exactly where we are supposed to be. More details to come.

Past

Well first of all, we've been skunked again. Our poor Ikey still reeks from a skunking incident that happened a week ago tomorrow. It happened the morning of my meeting with my site supervisor at my blocking placement, I repeatedly apologized for the odor.

And worse than that I unknowingly gave my students suckers that both smelled and tasted like skunk on Friday. They had been innocently sitting on my kitchen counter the morning of the incident. However, when they asked me why they tasted/smelled like skunk I told them that the Dollar Tree must not keep their candy very fresh. Yes, I feel guilty. But it was much easier to lie to them knowing I'll never see them again. Friday was my last day in my high school placement.

Present

 I miss those kiddos. I had some sweet kids. I had some kids who were going through tougher situations than any 15 year old should ever have to go through and they made my days brighter. I think of them often and I hope they find their way. They are all so full of strength.

It's too early to tell how I feel about my middle school placement, suffice it to say it will be different. But I'm not yet sure if it's a good or a bad different.

Future

In more life-changing type news: Drew accepted a new position at a company in Salem, VA. We are so excited for him to begin this new job and for this to hopefully be the first step towards us moving where we feel pulled: Roanoke.

I've requested to do my student teaching in Roanoke in the spring and if we can lease our house we could be moving as soon as December. It's been a bit of a whirlwind but it has been an awesome ride. We are so grateful for God's timing and are praying that we can immerse ourselves into the community He has for us.

Also, we are signed up to run the Color Me Rad 5K this weekend with Drew's parents and sister. I'm excited for them to come visit but in the interest of full disclosure, we have done no little training. It should be interesting (read: embarrassing).


I hope that fall wherever you are is as beautiful as it is here in the Appalachian mountains.

Our lives are pretty busy. Hence, the rare blog updates. I'm still adjusting to the all day every day, switching between teacher and student, and creating lesson plans which currently take me about 7 hours each to create. But I'm sleeping a lot on weekends and powering through. I love my job so much so far. I can't wait until I'm paid to do it rather than having to pay to do it.


Lately, we're very into fantasy football. Drew and I both suck but it's a great way to spend our Sundays, piled up on the couch calculating points and cheering for our guys. Here are our standings so far today....Don't let my dad's 4.00 fool you, he's just waiting for Peyton to play here in a few.





Also, at the request of my blogger friend Erika I downloaded the app Fooducate. I hadn't had much time to fool with it until this morning and then Drew and I got carried away. It grades your food by scanning the barcode. We were pretty surprised by some of the things we thought would be pretty healthy...like our bread that were not. It's free and pretty handy.


Yesterday marked the beginning of hunting season so that will be taking up Drew's Saturday mornings. And I'm preparing to switch from my placement in a high school to a local middle school. I'm excited but I know I will miss my high school kids, they have made my experience such an enjoyable one.

So in short, I sleep a lot, we watch football, Drew hunts, and we scan barcodes. You've not been missing much.

Okay, here's a few more of the exciting things you've missed: