Blogging from our new home

I’m sitting in the veranda of our new home in the ‘blogging chair’ (my husband’s name for it).  It’s a nice spot.  It’s separated from the rest of the house by french doors and there’s lots of windows looking out on three different sides.  The house wouldn’t have been my first choice (it’s old and has lots of wood on the walls), but it grows on me more and more each day.  Even the wood is growing on me.  Although most parts of the house are still in a semi-state of chaos and most of it left to be unpacked, it’s already beginning to feel like home.

 Today was generally low-key.  Matthew, our six year old even put himself down for a nap in the afternoon.  We’ve been going pretty hard for the past two weeks (as we didn’t rest last weekend with all the moving) and it was due time for a rest. 

 I also worked quite a lot of overtime at work this week just to get everything in place for the person replacing me (my last day was Friday).  I am now on maternity leave and it feels so good to be done.  I feel a great sense of accomplishment looking back at the past few months.  I was able to manage the busy ‘wedding season’, basically single-handedly.  Plus train new staff on top of it.  I feel like I’m leaving the other catering consultants equipped to do their jobs even though they only have a few months experience doing catering.

I realize I love training people.  If I can help them do their job better, it makes me feel very good.  God’s been teaching me more about myself through this, but I’ll write more on that later.

God is very gracious.  Change is generally very difficult for me – I need lots of time to process.  We’ve moved (after being in the same home for 7 1/2 years), I’m going to have a baby in a few weeks, and I just finished work.  But what I feel right now is peace.  I might have felt a bit stressed about getting everything in order for work, but I don’t feel stressed about the move or the fact that nothing is ready for the baby yet.  I’m just going to take it easy and enjoy my time off.