Hello, fabulous, wonderful, lovely and gorgeous folks!
Please, pretty please, forgive my lack of postings lately. As you may have heard, the new job has been a real adjustment. My students are out of this world, fantastic! Most of the time . . . and my colleagues are hands-down the most amazing people I've ever had the privilege work with and live by, ever.
The weird thing is, even on the two days that I've found myself frustrated enough with my classes to want to cry, I'm still amazed that I get to wake up the next morning and go to my classroom to teach. This, to put it simply, is and has been my dream for many, many years. I'm living my dream - how cool is that? Really, how bad could life be, even on the worst of days? Not very, is what I'm saying.
Living at school is supposed to be a real knock-out, overwhelming transition but I really don't feel like that's been the case for me and CL. We've (I think) adjusted quite well, quite quickly. My awesome husband even knows some of our dorm kids' names! That's progress, let me tell you.
We're living in the biggest dorm on campus, which means there's a nearly constant stream of younglings paddling through our pad. Our furniture doesn't seem to be showing the wear in any significant way, and frankly - neither are we. I love baking cookies for my wee monsters, and I can't even say that I mind having them over to my place to study more nights than not. They're just really neat people, and it's been a while since I was surrounded by cool kids!
While all of my excellent friends are having babies, it seems I've walked into the role of "Mom" to fully-grown, dating, driving, sometimes manic and dramatic teenagers. Babies are great. Babies smell nice, look great all the time (especially in their pajamas, and especially my God-daughter) rarely have hair issues and are pretty darn easy going most of the time. Teenagers? Hm. Life is never boring, we'll just put it that way. Or, really, I guess even when life SHOULD be boring, it's not.
With Autumn finally coming on in our part of the world, we're at last breaking out the sweaters, buying stacks of firewood and preparing for our hot water to go out even more often, but most of all, we're looking forward to sitting in our living room full of kids, reading, laughing and making merry in every way we know how.
Life is good, y'all. Enjoy!
Love,
Jillian
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