Friday, 06 November 2009

• We Interrupt This Program

  ...for a brief (okay, not so brief) announcement. Our regularly scheduled program will resume tonight.
  
  This has been a hard decision for me, as I have had this entry in "draft" for about 3 weeks now....
  
  It been busy these days, and not just because my two beautiful girls keep my hands full, literally. They are definitely growing up way too fast for my liking.
  
  Hubby is now on staff at our church. He is the Contemporary Service Music Director. It is a part-time position, and the other part being filled by another person who is in charge of the Traditional Service (i.e. more hymns). It's an extra 12-15 hours of work a week. He was already doing part of the job with 2 other worship leaders, so he just took on a few more responsibilities and is getting paid for it now. This is something that he has always wanted to do. A few years back, he was even looking at going to seminary to attain a MDiv with Specialization in Worship Leadership (I forget the specific name at the seminary he wanted to attend). So, he's working 9 hours a day (M, W-F), and then half day on Tuesdays at his regular job, and going to staff meetings on Tuesday mornings. Instead of rotating the duties with the 2 other leaders, Hubby is now in charge every week. He still consults with each week's worship leaders on song selections, but he make sure the tech sheets are sent out and music is printed out, etc.
  
  So part of the busyness is that Hubby is away a little more. We don't notice too much because he leaves for work an hour earlier than before, but while we're still sleeping. Another part of it is that he hogs monopolizes uses our one and only laptop most of the time after the kids sleep. This leaves very little time for me to get on to blog, check email, check FB updates (esp now with the live feed haha), and work on updates, edit photos, photobook, etc etc. (Wow, I sound like a nerd with nothing else to do but be online.) And with the holidays here, and helping my sister plan her wedding, I just can't find enough hours in a day.
  
  Even though I've enjoyed my time here at momaroo/xanga, I think I need to take a break from it. Momaroo has changed from it's initial days where posts were more about everyday life of moms, and it was a little more light-hearted. I started blogging on xanga in 2004, just a few days before becoming engaged, and it has certainly evolved...xanga as a whole, and also why/how I have used it through my engagement days, to wedding planning days, to newlywed days, to mommyhood....and almost everyone who were my real-life friends (actually my Sunday School students at the time) have stopped using it, and now I have some great online friends who I hold just as dear as my offline friends because you all are very encouraging, and you keep it real. Thanks for sharing your stories with me.
  
  I still have a few other places where I blog, so let me know if you want "follow" me at my personal blog. I wish everyone would post a RSS feed thingie onto their page so that I can add you to my Google Reader, but I will come back from time to time to comment. Or if you want to be "friends" on FB, message me your email addy. I love hearing everyone's stories.
  
  I will continue my "Our Week in Photos" until the rest of the year, but then I will probably stop blogging here for a long while. This week's photos will be up later as I still have to sort through them.
  

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