When The Wife Is Away, The Boys Will Play...

Sorry for the long awaited post. Our lives seem so uneventful these last few months, same ol' routine repeated day after day. So why post now? Emily is on spring break and I am home alone. Certainly a change of pace for me, but I can't lie...I would much rather be with her right now. She is in Minnesota visiting "The Growing Gray Family", and enjoying time with the nephews. I am stuck here in Indiana going to classes, doing homework, and working on projects (see below).

This has been my idea of fun for the weekend. I built a suspension bowling system for a mentally challenged adult center to help encourage physical activity. It is a project for a community outreach class. I created a simple design and with the help of my friend Brandon we engineered this amazing pin resetter.

All you have to do pull up on the strings and the pins realign and set for the next throw. It isn't all that impressive, but I am quite pleased at how it turned out. I don't do many random projects when Emily is home, so this was a fun "boy activity" for the weekend.

And just to prove it...it is level!!

Emily's Winter Life

Well to start this off, I am very thankful today that I chose to move to Shenandoah! I knew it was the right move but when I found out today that 13 teachers were getting laid off and I would have been one of them made me feel like I made the right decision even more. God is so good...all the time!

Okay...now onto the post. There will be no pictures but only descriptions of what has been going on in my life the past couple of months. I'm sure most of you aren't interested but for those of you that are, here goes nothing.

I agreed in early November to help coach 6th grade girls basketball. The season was short, they needed me to help out, and the pay was good for the time put into it so I was game. Needless to say the season was VERY interesting. I totally forgot how middle school girls act. All I remember from middle school was crying EVERYDAY because of my brothers and dad making any kind of remark (nice or mean). Well let me tell you after being around middle school girls, I felt really bad for my mom having to deal with me 24/7. It is rough putting up with drama, attitudes, and girls constantly caring about their looks.

However, I did really enjoy the job after getting used to middle school girls. The girls are so willing to soak up your knowledge of the sport and really looked up to me because I was a "state champion". We all know I wasn't the star but these girls have NO clue! It was kinda nice to be thought of as a "legend" to these girls...but also funny knowing the truth.

I've also been really involved with some school activities like being on the handbook committee and having to work on textbook adoption. Somehow I can't say no and I'm wanting to make the best impression possible with my superiors. That has taken the rest of my free time up until practice started about every day. I enjoyed seeing how the school ran and doing things I'm totally unknowledge about.

The weekends have been spent grading, planning, and spending as much quality time with Zach as possible. He has been a great supporter through all of my teaching, coaching, and other activities this winter! Thanks to the best husband in the world...love you Zach!

Well...now it is on to spring! I'm going to enjoy coming home before 5:00 everyday and actually getting "me" time. What an interesting winter to leave behind and I hope you enjoyed my boring recap. Only 14 work days until Spring Break!