Weird Week

The week has flown by and I can't help but feel a little odd by the events that have taken place.  In some sense they have been good and sort of orchestrated and in others they have been trying and frustrating, but I guess that's just life.  Josh's mom was hospitalized this week after a fall.  While it's been good for her to get extra care, it's also been rough since she's pretty strong-willed and isn't happy about the idea in general.  Josh went out for the week to help his dad and to visit her, which was good for him, but made for a really exhausting week of hard labor but some good catching up with our friends there.  I've been in Flagstaff, trying to stay focused on school work and work only to find myself really frustrated with a co-worker and realizing that once I graduate I'm really going to need to focus on getting a job.  If I stay where I am now, I'll be pretty much in the same job I had before I left, only in a chemistry lab, which doesn't speak well of my degree.  But the good side has been church for me.  I've felt like it's been my one "quiet" place to focus on the bigger picture and to remember that God cares for us.  Earlier in the week I had volunteered to make treats for our graduate coffee sales, only to find that by Thursday I was swamped between Sedar dinners, homework, and work.  But the guy who runs the sales gave me a pass since they had extra stuff from Tuesday.  I've found myself excited about Easter, about spending time with friends, and about getting Josh home again.  It's been a strange week, but on the bright side, the nephew has been a bundle of energy who is learning new words and phrases quickly.  It's nice to have that kind of attention given to you, even if it's from a small person who on the next turn will order you to get him strawberries and ice cream.  But that's life, the good and the bad, the relaxing and the frustrating, the sublime and the infuriating.