Summer Excitment

I love how God, like a good friend, encourages us when we are down. I had been feeling anxious about what next year would look like. Baby boy is due right when school starts and I keep thinking, if only he was a month earlier I would be so much more ready to get back on campus. I have been feeling like everyone will be starting and I will fall behind. But then God encouraged me one morning and made me so excited for next year and this summer. I realized that I will have for sure 1 girl around this summer that I can pour into and maybe even two. Both will be around next year, both have cars which will make meeting up with a baby so much easier. Both are really cool women who desire to know God more.

I went from being anxious about the start of the school year to really excited because it won't be picking up everything with a baby, it will be continuing with the girl(s) I meet with this summer and that has me so excited! I also told them both about my idea for a knitting night and both are interested in participating.

Currently both are on the fence about the Summer Training Program Tom and I are helping lead because of work, so I am praying that if God wants them there it works out. It would be a great kickoff to a summer together but God knows better than I do what is good. Any prayers you send my way for the STP (Summer Training Program) will be much appreciated as well. We just got home from our week long Summit and our STP is in three weeks. I'm a total homebody and then there's always the headache of getting someone to watch cats (thanks mom) and water the plants. And for this STP it's exciting because we will have our own kitchen which will be super nice but also means we need to pack pots and pans (and who knows what else) which is just more to remember.

But even with having been gone so much and all the hassles that come with travel I am really looking forward to the STP. The topic is Inner Transformation which is focusing on intimacy with God. From my understanding we will discuss different spiritual practices (praying, meditating, etc) and then we will have time to just go be with God and do what we talked/learned about.

The first week we are there I will hit 7 months! I can't believe I'm 6 months already! A few nights before hitting the 6 month mark Tom finally got to feel baby kick. It wasn't one of the big ones but he did feel baby so it was neat. I can't believe how much more I feel him move the last two weeks! It's so neat! And I had my doctor checkup yesterday and everything looks good! I've got so much to look forward to this summer!