Last spring someone in our bible study commented to me, "wow, a doctoral program - that must be a whole new level of hard". That is the best way to describe it. I have NEVER ever been through a stretch in my life that has been so high-pressure and JAM PACKED. I have stretches where I can take it in stride and stretches where I am completely and utterly overwhelmed (this last week I had a lot of the latter as my school stress was verymuch compounded by military spouse stress). I knew it was bad when I had cried so hard on Thursday night that my face was still kind of puffy when I work up on Friday morning. I am grateful to have this opportunity and know that the Lord is/will continue to grow me as this is truly one of those times where I cannot even make a feeble attempt to function on my own strength. That would get me about 10 minutes into my day. If that.
I (and probably even more so my husband) will appreciate when I can find a stretch of time where at least not every weekend is not completely consumed by writing. I'm hoping that will come next year (though sadly it is looking as though just when my life somewhat calms down enough for me to at least catch my breath husband will likely be leaving. not cool at all.).
I knew the stress had reached a new level when I actually asked Philip to go running with me at 7:30 tonight when I took a break from studying. I prettymuch hate running. However, things are wild enough that it almost feels a little bit good for the tension levels in my muscles.
Last weekend we went out with Matt & Jana to celebrate Matt's birthday. Here are some pictures of the celebration that I thought I'd share.
Philip is SO good with Liam.
Liam really likes Philip and Philip is
generally pretty excited to see him too.Philip watched him
on a day of leave this summer for M& J and is very
proud that he kept the baby alive by himself for
the whole day. I'm prettty proud of him too. He's going
to be an amazing dad someday.
Wow, my husband is hot.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
3 comments:
Little Mr. Liam looks like he has been doing some body building. I love the photo of Philip with him, and You, Philip and Liam!
I have a question: that looks like 2 cakes, with lots and lots of candles. Were you celebrating 2 birthdays, or does Matt always get this much attention?
Praying for you - sorry about the stressful week.
Love, Mom
Nice to see Liam and wow, Philip looks more at home holding him than I would have expected, nice that you have friends like Matt and Jana. Trust that life will cycle back to just normal craziness soon.
So was just thinking how much pets help with stress levels. Have you given up on getting a Tetley Piglet? Maybe the surge has passed and you can get on the list.
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