Crazy long time since I updated

Wow. It has been a really long time since I updated. It makes sense though because I was incredibly busy during the last month of school and didn't have much extra time for other things. But, praise God, I got through and really enjoyed the semester, no matter how much stress I was under. I ended up getting all A's again :) so I was really excited about that.
Since school, I have been doing a lot of things. First, I got my number in the Good Shepherd Catholic Church Mom's Group e-mail and I am now regularly babysitting for eight (yes, eight) families this summer. It is a challenging, emotional, tiring and oftentimes rewarding experience. As soon as the second week of July hits, I will be working 7 hours a day with two of my most challenging families. Most of my weekends are gone too, but that just means a lot of money this summer!!!

I also went down to see my wonderful family in Charlotte, NC. Oh my goodness, how I love to go there. It was so refreshing to be with all of them. I love them all so much I could burst. We went to three graduation parties, played tennis and football, went to Furman, swam in their backyard pool and just overall enjoyed being with one another. My Aunt Beth was gone for a lot of it because she was up visiting Erin, but I was so glad I got to see her for a couple of the days we were there. Her garden is absolutely amazing, as is her cooking!!!

Most recently, we had the GNBC talent show. This was the seventh time I had put on the talent show and it was a huge success :) It was a relief to just enjoy the show and not worry about stressful things and we all had a great time with yummy lasagna, garlic bread, salad and many desserts afterwords. I showed a video of when I was four and singing "Nothing but the Blood" with Mom in church. So cute. Mimi was with me.

Last night, Ashley and I went to The Fray concert. They were crazy awesome. I do have issues with some of their songs. I know that they are a christian band...or something like that...but I find no redemption or hope in some of their songs, especially the new one "You Found Me". And I do know the despair that comes from thinking God has abandoned me, but it isn't true that He did, so I guess I just don't understand the song. I love their song "Say When" now. The build up is awesome and when I saw it in concert, I didn't even know what they were saying and I was moved.
The people in front of us were having drama. It was scary. They got really drunk and it got bad. Ashley and I hope that the girl leaves the guy, because he was a major jerk and seemed abusive.

In the near future, I am taking five teenagers to camp for five days and then I am teaching VBS a week after we get back from camp.

In other news, Boyce accepted 12 out of my 14 credits from Liberty. Way more than I could have imagined and I am very excited and thankful. I am currently signed up for three classes from Boyce and plan to sign up for a math class at NOVA. I don't know yet if I will sign up for one more class at Boyce.

I can't stop listening to the song "If today was your last day" by Nickelback.
Some day will be my last day and then it'll be my first day in eternal paradise with the lover of my soul.

So I'll try to be better about updating. For now, I'm off to sleep and then 10 hours of babysitting tomorrow.