Westminster Christian Academy

Westminster Christian Academy is a private school dedicated to educating seventh-twelfth graders and they are currently looking for another Spanish teacher.

Yesterday yours truly sent in her resume and cover letter.

I really want this job!

Sales just is not my forte and I loved teaching last year. Everyday was different and challenging whereas here I feel like I am spinning my wheels and sometimes I am bored to tears. It is time for a change.

I am at a disadvantage perhaps because I have no education degree and only one year experience, taking this past year off from teaching.

My advantages, however, are the glowing recommendations from my last school, my husband plays softball with the other Spanish teacher at the school, and I do have a Spanish degree.

I really do want this job.

Tonight is the first softball game for Brandon's company and I happen to be on the team. I don't know what I was thinking when I signed up for this.

He is risen.

I am determined to read this book. It is a bit slow-going at the moment, but I am decidedly going to read it. I have attempted this feat quite a few times and I am no longer sure why it is so important.

Everyone else has read it already.

That is a little bit of the reason. I loved Narnia and Tolkien was a friend of Lewis. The world of these books, however, seems quite a bit more complex than the Narnian worlds that I grew to adore.

You read too much fluff.

This is sometimes very true. There is nothing I enjoy more than sitting down and reading a mindless book about twenty-somethings like me. Especially with all the traveling I have been doing lately, to sit on a plane and try to get into a book like The Fellowship of the Ring is a little beyond me. And I like fluff! Maybe I am not stretching my university-educated mind enough, but I like it.

I am setting off on this quest to read this overrated trilogy and already my mind is thinking of the Borders gift card burning a hole in my purse and what great fluff book I could buy and read next. I am meeting Brandon for dinner right near Borders. . .

I must say that I had a very enjoyable Resurrection Sunday. We really steered clear of the eggs and chocolate and et cetera. Not really for any particular reason, but I think that I enjoyed the day more because of it. And being in the traditionally liturgical church that we are, there was a Good Friday service. It really put me in the mood for the whole weekend. The whole service was quiet and somber and we exited in silence which was such a change.

I thought that not having a voice around this time of year would be so upsetting because I love to sing and my favorite songs come out of storage. I even tried to croak along a little bit, but when I stopped trying to make notes, I stopped to listen and actually heard the words. Like Luther mused, there is such a balance between singing for the beauty of the music (guilty) and really hearing the message and having a heart of worship.

Covenant had a sunrise service on Sunday and I was so bummed that we didn't know about it, but next year I can guarantee that we will be in attendance! I really thought that giving up the Easter Bunny would be a big sacrifice in our marriage, but (don't tell my mom) I don't miss it!! I really liked having the focus on Christ (it only took me twenty-four years to get in the right frame of mind). And when we have children, I want that to be the theme of the weekend: Christ's sacrificial death and miraculous resurrection.

I have rambled quite a bit and I am unsure that I expressed what I wanted to. Yet, this was more for me than for anyone else and I feel that I have said what was on my mind. If anyone else understands what I am trying to say, it will be a miracle.

He is risen indeed.

California

I have always said that I never had any desire to go to California, however I just returned from such a place. Liguori Publications just send me to the Los Angeles Religious Education conference down the street from Disneyland. I was there a total of six days and I am so very exhausted. I did get to go to Disney one day but just for shopping and lunch on Main Street. The rest of the time I was working, working, working. I sort of got a false view of LA though because I was really in the Disney suburb, not the Los Angeles, I don't think.

The sunrise from the hotel lobby.

I also just got back from Maryland the day before I left for Anaheim. I had so much fun visiting with my family and friends. I was only there three and a half days - not enough!! Here are some Maryland pictures (aka Rachael my favorite niece pictures.)

Birthday presents from Brandon and I - two years already!

I did french braids in her hair if you can see them.

Oh well, it is time for bed. I am bummed because I left my book on the plane.

Good night, moon.