This is a story.

I don’t have internet, so I have to get my fix in Kevin’s church office!

Pregnancy is going fine!  Morning sickness is starting to taper off.  This is wonderful!  I look pregnant, and I feel overjoyed!  I can’t believe I’m almost half-way through.  That’s incredible.  We find out on September 8 if we’re having a boy or girl.  Cool things about my baby – right now, he or she is about the size of an apple, and can grimace, suck his or her thumb, grasp, and kick (though I can’t feel it quite yet).  Also, his or her eyes are sensitive to light, and I read that if I shine a flashlight into my tummy, the baby may move away.  That doesn’t seem very nice, though.  

I do not have a job for the fall.  I had an interview set up with a lady who wanted me to watch her 5 month old son for the fall.  I figured that would be perfect!  The day of the interview, she still hadn’t called me with directions, so I left a couple of messages.  Two hours before the interview, she called and said, “Oh, sorry, I’ve been so busy, I should have called you…  I hired someone else.”  Oh, thanks.  I already did my hair and make up and had a nice outfit on, plus I had my whole resume ready.  I was quite sure I was the nanny for her.  Well, shoot.  Of course, if she didn’t even call me to tell me she hired someone else, maybe she isn’t the kind of person I wanted to work for anyway.  

But this is kind of a confirmation that I need to work on my piano studio.  I plan on delivering some business cards to all of the schools in the area when school starts.  That way, when someone asks the school teacher who they recommend, they’ll have my info.  Also going to be doing some ads around the church.  Hopefully, more students will come.  I’ve been invited to the Dallas Southwest Music Teachers Association.  This is kind of intimidating, as piano teachers in associations tend to be pretty serious!  (You musicians know the type…)  But it’ll be good.  

We’ve been doing some crazy yard work.  We got rid of tons of bushes and are starting to clear things out.  Our yard is soooo overgrown, because the elderly lady who lived there before just liked to plant things (maybe an addiction?) and never maintain things.  Then the house sat vacant for like, 2 years.  So it was really a junky yard.  We have about 30 trees, and Kevin cut down some of the small ones.  So the yard doesn’t look good, but at least you can see the house and we won’t have as many bugs!  

I can’t wait to tell you all about our mission trip to Brazil.  It was amazing.  When I get my pictures in, I will have to schedule some time to come up to Kevin’s office and post about it.  Before we went, I was really starting to think that I was crazy for trying to go across the world while feeling so sick, and wondered why I didn’t cancel.  Boy, am I glad I did not!  The Lord put my sickness on hold for a week, and I did not throw up until the day we were traveling back.  This is an exact answer to my prayer that I would not be sick while we were ministering.  

I am constantly remembering the verse we put on our wedding invitations, Psalm 126:3, “The Lord has done great things for us, and we are filled with joy!” 

Jess