All the things!

We're making a chore chart, doing laundry every day, packing lunches, hitting 6AM spin class... The real schedule has begun. My calendar is getting a workout. We are budgeting time, resources, and making more concrete plans, and it feels... Odd in a way I know will lead to good. Routine is balm for my soul, but the getting there is always a little interesting.  Figuring out a chore chart that didn't make me pull my hair out is a topic for another post.  Meal planning is still a work in progress, but I suspect it'll get easier as I continue to work at it.

I had the day(s) of lectures you get when you start work in a healthcare field this week, where it seemed like the moral of the story is be nice and wash your hands. I knitted a lot, learned some, and am anticipating the next few weeks when more learning through the work of chaplaincy begins. Our boss gave us our official blue chaplain ribbons that attach to our official hospital nametags so that we are easily pegged.  We got keys to our office, and a tour of the hospital.  We went to visit patients with the residents... learned the mechanics of charting.  It's pretty great. Did I mention we have an office, and that it used to be a nun's bedroom??

Wearing a name badge and having a purpose outside of the little house we are making into a home and this new, strange role of wife is pretty great. And I'm only one week in.

Looking Back//Looking Forward

Happy Happy.
We're a week into 2015, and it's been a WEEK.

I onboarded for a chaplaincy internship(CPE, for you pastoral types) at St. Francis here in Columbus yesterday.

Last week, we hosted our first (hopefully of many) New Years Day gathering.  I learned a couple of things about hosting.  We had friends for lunch after church this past Sunday.  I learned some more things about hosting.

I've gotten to live in this town, grocery shop, meal plan, and do the things that make life go more smoothly.  It's been great to have time to figure it all out... and realize there will never be enough time to figure it all out.

 Jon and I have gotten to do things as a "we" in ways we didn't before now, even though the wedding was almost 2 months ago.  Working in Decatur, travelling back and forth, and then getting to witness the marriage of one dear friend and officiate the wedding of another, meant that the last weeks of 2014 went by SO fast.

Speaking of? 2014 went SO fast. Let's look at it by numbers in my poor attempt at an infographic...

More later.  Happy Day!