So my husband, the Pastor, is on his way to becoming the Reverend, and we all had to endure another extended absence for school stuff. Well, the children and I had to endure - he got to stay at a luxury retreat centre and phone me periodically to tell me about the deer walking across the lawn and the geese on the secluded pond. The family who stayed home and kept the fires burning ate a lot of prepared meals from the freezer and dealt with several days of no internet, but at least we didn't have a baby with the chickenpox like the last time he went away for school.
Small mercies.
Anyway, he came back safely to us and that's the last 'away for school' trip! Now all of his work can get done at home.
Pretty much as soon as he returned I needed a break. There's something about not sleeping well when your partner is absent while also parenting that drains you in a way nothing else does. I feel as if only now, a few weeks later, I'm really rested and recovered. Now it's sort of spring. Sort of. There are bulbs up in my new garden bed and garlic poking through the ground in one of the raised beds. A new chipmunk has moved in to the yard, heedless of the fate of his predecessor. I'm sure the cats will enjoy that. The snow is melting and showcasing all the toys children brought outside to play with over the past months. I spend a significant amount of time picking up garbage outside the other day - as soon as the snow starts to go you see all sorts of bits of things on the lawn.
Anyway. Yay, it's spring. And here we are, starting to get ready for ordination.
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