Some new things on the horizon

Some changes are happening around our house.  Nothing major, but different.

For one thing, our church Treasurer "retired" after serving for 30 years.  It is an unpaid position.  She and I worked together on various budgetary things.  She attended all the monthly and quarterly council and committee meetings, and I handled the week-to-week duties as well as prepared the monthly financial statements.  She had asked this summer if I would be willing to take on her responsibilities.  I agreed, as long as I could continue doing the work for which I am currently paid.  I officially took over after our annual congregational meeting in January.  I consider it a way to give to our church without impacting our finances, and I am one of the few who are qualified to take on the task.  Not sure I will do it for 30 years, but I am pleased to contribute now.

It also appears as though Andrew might be coaching baseball at the high school this spring.  He has been wanting to bow out of football for awhile, and although that he isn't necessarily giving it up this year, there is an opportunity to become involved in baseball.  The interim head coach works closely with Andrew, and asked this week if he might be interested.  Andrew already has some commitments for the spring that would prevent him from being involved full time, but he is interested in helping out as he can.  At first he was hesitant to pursue this as just a volunteer, but I encouraged him to do so, at least for this year.  As I explained to him, I care about our school's teenagers also, and they are hurting after the death of their coach.  Andrew knows the students, and I think it is something we can do to help.

It's also a good time for him to take this on, because another change in our house is that there aren't going to be any spring sports happening.  This seems so very, very odd.  For the last five years we've had a track schedule (and some years there were two separate schedules), and before that we had eight years of at least one (and more often multiple) baseball schedules.    However, this year no one wants to run track, and although we thought Thomas might like tennis, he decided against it.  He is planning to work on the set for the high school musical instead.  We are pleased, and think he will really enjoy that.

Lastly, my mom now has two dogs.  This isn't really new info, but things have evolved and changed with that as well.  Her second dog, is the dog that Robert brought at Christmas.  He has realized that it isn't realistic to think this dog will be able to live with him (or even get to him) easily.  Robert is disappointed, but realized it is what is best for the dog.  Fortunately, my mother had mentioned a few weeks ago that if Robert needed her to, she would just keep the dog.  Not only do I think this is best for the dog, I think it is best for both my mom and Robert as well.

That's the thing about life...change always happens!