I could not possibly be more proud of that kid.Īfter graduation Shawn, Josh and Matthew took a cross country trip for two weeks. So we got to see him graduate from ISU and then a few weeks later we got to see him graduate from high school. Thanks to dual enrollment, he earned his college associate degree from Idaho State University and actually graduated with a college degree a few weeks before he graduated from high school. We did college applications, I helped him do a ton of stuff for scholarship applications, he was the senior class president, so he was in charge of all the senior activities, he had prom on his 18th birthday, where he was crowed prom king, so that was a cool night. The first part of the year was crammed with senior stuff for Josh. But I’m happy with the results, so I’m glad we did it. It was crappy timing, but we had a water leak in our kitchen that ruined the flooring, so it was sort of a forced kitchen remodel. We started it it with a kitchen remodel, and while our kitchen looks great, it was stressful and our house was torn up for quite some time. This was a super crazy year, and I’ll be honest, I’m not going to be all that sad to see it go. I have been meaning to check in for months, but life is busy and I just haven’t done it. I realize that my blog has mostly been abandoned, but I’m back with a yearly update. Crazy! She’s doing amazing, by the way! I’ll come back at some point and make another family update, but things are going great!) TEN!!! Remember when I was making long posts about how the adoption wait was never going to be over? That was a decade ago. (Oh also, Clarissa just turned ten a few weeks ago. Lots of big things coming up for us! I’m nervous and excited and happy and sad and basically sort of a hot mess right now, but I’m hanging in there. But it’s officially happening, because I got it scheduled! It happens mid-March. Eek! The interview process is intense, it will last four hours, and has several different assessments and interview portions. So there’s our news! Oh, also, yesterday in the middle of the mission excitement, I got the email from the grad school I applied to about my in person interview. So right now I’m just focusing on being excited for him and trying not to think too much about sending my kid halfway around the world for two years! It’s hard to watch your kids grow up and move on, but I couldn’t be more proud or excited for everything he’s accomplishing and the choices he’s making in life. So he’ll be home from college in early May and then we will have about six weeks with him before he heads out for two years. He has been looking forward this for a long time. As much as I’ll miss him, this is a great thing for him. He certainly got his wish, lol! Missionaries generally come back fluent in the language they learn after the two years is over, so it will be so fun for him to speak Croatian! He’s so excited, every time I talk to him I can tell that he’s just ready to go. He really wanted to go somewhere foreign where he could learn a cool language. We have spent the past few weeks trying to guess where he would go, and no one ever even came close to Croatia, but as soon as he got his assignment it’s like it made perfect sense somehow. He is absolutely thrilled that he gets to go to Croatia. We are going to miss him, but he is so excited about this that it’s almost hard to be sad about it. Missionaries spend two years away from their families, focused on the work, so while we will receive weekly letters and occasional phone calls, he won’t be home until probably June 2021. He leaves June 19th and will spend several weeks at a missionary training center doing a lot of language and missionary training and then he will head to Croatia probably in August. He has been assigned to serve in the Adriatic North mission, which covers Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro and Slovenia! He has been assigned to learn to speak Croatian, which means that he will likely spend most or all of his time in Croatia. Yesterday the letter finally came and we got the big news! He submitted his paperwork three weeks ago and we have been on pins and needles waiting for him to be assigned. In our church you don’t get to choose where you do missionary service, the church makes the assignment, and it could be almost anywhere in the world! A big piece of family news! Josh has chosen to spend the next two years doing missionary work for our church.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |