Growing a Holiday...

So I am awake without hesitation for the first time in months. I promptly arose out of bed this morning before brother bear at 6:10. I was pretty thankful because when brother bear wakes up he gets the one bathroom for 30 minutes and did I mention ONE bathroom (which means one throne). It was so nice to be awake early this morning especially with the rain that I woke up to.

Today is my last day of interning for the semester and I am down to the last project for class. Thankfully I met with my professor last week to find out exactly what this one would entail and I learned that it requires excellence, but not slavery so tonight is the last of my up all night exertions to get school done. I counted this morning and this semester I have had 336 hours of interning, 13 gang related blog posts, 14 discussion boards, 11 (8 hour each) worksheets, 13 non-profit financial activities, 13 surveys, 2 books, 6 projects totaling to almost 328 hours of work alone, and an average of 5 hours of sleep a night. All this over the last 4 months. Can you believe it!?

I am SO growing towards a holiday! This last project has proven to be a booger to get to working on. A)it's my last one, B)I keep daydreaming of decorating the aptmento for Christmas, C)I keep daydreaming about visiting my family. I am looking forward to my nice long marathon break approaching me in three days. On Wednesday, brother bear and I are hopping in the old swaggon-waggon to go see our grandparents in NC which is about a 10 hour trip. We will be there till Saturday and heading back that morning. Sunday we are going to pick out a tree from one of Nathan's customers' farms and decorating the aptmento in such a way that would make the Grinch's heart grow a few sizes. Then Monday morning I am hopping in the swaggon-waggon alone to go visit the parents, Johnson family, Wakefields, and the sweet kiddos for a week! We are going to celebrate Julia's birthday on Wednesday with my home church. I can't wait for that special day. I am not surprise it's been a year because we serve a powerful God, but I am so very very thankful.

Then I am headed back to Nashville and crafting it up for three weeks till Nathan and I hop back in the car and head to Virginia to spend Christmas with our ENTIRE family! God is the soil, my family the water, and lately school has been the roots to my growth, but not in the coming weeks. My car and my craft room are planning to uproot my tree and give me new life and space for a time. I can't wait. Well, I am just a bamboo shoot, growing a mile a minute; hope to catch you on the next mile!!