New Beginnings and Settling In

Tomorrow - I begin my new job with Goshen School Systems. Today, I went in to finalize all my paperwork and make sure that there was nothing alarming in my criminal background check. Whew....I was sweating bullets on that one....LOL

This week there is a lot of extra Yoders in the area because we are having our family reunion this weekend. Tomorrow morning some of my cousins are coming over for breakfast along with my mom and sisters.

Then I bike up to the Goshen Middle School to begin my first assignment of "subbing" in the kitchen/cafeteria. I think I'm going to be busy.

This past weekend Steve and I completed some projects around our house. It's looking good and feeling very much like our own now. I love when we can take a house and put our own personal touches to it and make it our home.

More gardening will happen next spring - but this is a start. I already have hummingbirds, nuthatches, cardinals, purple house finches, yellow finches and lots of sparrows. I enjoy sitting and watching them all.

In 2 weeks - we get on a plane and head over to The Netherlands to see our daughter and her family and hold our newest grandson for the first time. He will be 6 months while we are there. Johan has turned 3 this past Sunday. We will not be there near long enough but we will treasure and store up all the time that we do have with them. It will be the first time for Steve and I to be in that part of Europe.  We are also planning a day trip to Paris while we're there.