St. Patrick's Day Ramblings
So, now it’s only been two months since my last post. Is
de-proving a word, meaning that someone is not improving?
Well, the good news is, that things in the real world have
picked up recently. I’ve become the social maven of our new town. It all
started with the first “real friend” I made, in the library of all places. After my last post, I decided to do something about what I wrote. I had
been planning on attending a couple of library story time sessions at several different libraries.
The first couple of times I went to story time, I felt like I couldn’t really try
to talk to anyone there. They just weren’t really interested, or we got there
late or left early. Or maybe it seemed like they already had friends they were
meeting there. Well, I was staying from a 9:30 story time until a 10:30 story
time, and noticed someone else with kids a bit older than mine who was doing
the same thing. So I went out-cognito! I can make up words all I want, it’s the
internet…
My new friend and I have met up several times since then and
texted back and forth quite a bit. And my social-ness continues to grow. I’m
proud to say that I’m significantly more in community now than I was before. We’ve
finally settled on a house and an area of town (hopefully, we are supposed to
close on it this Friday). Now that we’re settled on an area of town, we have
mostly settled our church hunt and are starting to find a foundation to
continue to grow from. I even attended the Zumba program at our apartment
complex a few times and met a few new people there as well.
We’re still “in flux” in a lot of ways, waiting to close on
the house, waiting to move, but waiting isn’t always a bad thing. We have been
really impatient lately, but when I do realize my impatience I stop to think
about how amazing it is to live in this country and be impatient for such
impossible things as a nice home to live in, enough cars to make traffic on the
roads, the health of two little boys who run screaming through our lives.
So this St. Patrick’s day post of rambling, should obviously
be finished up by pointing out the fact that we live in a country that 100
years ago fought against Irish immigrants, and now celebrates a national
holiday based on a missionary to Ireland
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