Five months here.

Lounging around looking ahead at the week, I wondered with some stress why this semester's work seems SO much busier than last! I was clearly going to have to be VERY intentional in mapping out time to finish my assignments and see clients... and I worried that reading textbooks was going to have to be only what filled the cracks.

Then I glanced over my planner:

two coffee dates with girlfriends
and one with a sweet wise woman from church
dinner with the Stanfields
small group at the Stoltzfus'
co-teach Sunday school for the third graders
go out for ice cream with roommate + cohort friends
movie night
community dinner
birthday party for Tyson & Jesi's turning-one-year-old

And of course there's my ability to focus at the coffee shop:
I've been here for two hours and seen (let me count) seven people I know well enough to hug and sit down and have a conversation with. Not including the two babies belonging to some of them who I needed to play with.

Dear Being Completely About My Work,

It was lovely knowing you. Really. I've heard so much about you from friends over the years, and you definitely have your attributes! And I so enjoyed the grades that resulted from you. Really, I'll miss them.

But...

This girl is back :-).