My life got turned upside down when, on November 22, 2015, the Sunday before Thanksgiving, I was called to be the new Relief Society President of the College Station 3rd Ward here in Aggieland. Obviously, this bishopric has an incredible sense of humor!!
I'm extremely humbled by this call to serve approximately 120 women and their families in our area. While I am only two months into this new stewardship, and not quite as overwhelmed as I was say, on November 29th, I have a feeling that my desires to catch up on the stories of my family's life during the past 18 months are sinking even lower, out of my grasp. It was hard enough for me to find the time to record the events under "normal" (no big calling) circumstances. (It would probably help if I wasn't so OCD about spelling & grammar--proofreading is often the longest part of the whole process for me). But now--my priorities have to change. It's not about me anymore. This "servant leadership" where I find myself currently, is an integral part of the ward as I help to lift and love the women within my sphere of influence. I won't settle for giving any less than 110%.
But the blogging...might have to wait...about three years, I'm told. I'm kind of sad about this. However, I haven't given up hope. There's gotta be a way. But each day that goes by in my quest to find it, I fall further behind!
I've tried scheduling a time to do it during the week. But it helps to not have distractions, which translates to no kids, which means they're in school and that precious time is used instead to go on visits or errands or hold meetings...so I can be--yup...without kids.
I've tried to make blogging a Sabbath day thing. Sundays are not used for errands or work or recreation.Yet Sundays are not a day of rest, either. They are a day of rest from "worldly" cares and stresses. But mine are pretty much filled with church meetings and other family duties or appropriate activities to strengthen my family spiritually. There is no time on Sunday for blogging.
The other issue--we only have one computer. My teenagers and sometimes elementary school kids need it every day to do something for school. While I give them my attention after school and wouldn't be blogging in the afternoons, anyway, some kids get home late (like our 16-year-old who, I swear, by the way his schedule is, already left the nest) and need to work on homework after the little kids have gone to bed. So there goes the nighttime opportunity, as well. To be fair though, a second computer would be nice, but in the evenings, after Jared gets home around 8pm, I like to just chillax with him!
I actually thought that I could crank out the blog posts this past summer--no school, no schedules! But that didn't work. Why? No school, no schedules! How is it that summers are whole other level of crazy?
*sigh*
In the meantime, we are still here.
Thanks for your patience.
Love,
Jenn
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God bless you in your new calling! I'm glad to know you're still around and putting out roots in TX. For me personally, I've found that adopting the some-is-better-than none policy works well for me in maintaining more than just my blog (house keeping anyone?) Even if I just regurgitate grammatically incorrect snippets that won't be published for years or maybe ever, at least I have a skeleton to help my memory.
Very good point, Dani!! Thank you!! Seems like even the skeletons are hard to create, too, but I'm going to try.
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