New Season Update

Well, as the Christmas season begins, I am starting a new season of my own. I have been offered and have accepted a full time position with Apex Learning, an online curriculum company and virtual school. I have been contracting with this company for about a year, now and designed and wrote for a reading course for secondary struggling readers that is now being used across the nation. This is a great opportunity and a wonderful provision while Danny is in grad school. And so...on Monday, I will join the Seattle bus commuters destined for downtown and begin a new job as an English Producer for Apex Learning.

I will not pretend that this decision comes with no regrets. There is a small (or not so small) part of me that has really enjoyed the freedom and flexibility that contracting has afforded. However, with three days in the office and two days from home, I really can't beat the flex (or benefits) of this job. I will also be working with an amazing team. In all honesty, this is a dreamy job. I will just trust the Lord for the time, energy and enthusiasm as I get ramped up and into the swing of things.

I also thought it might be nice to catch you up on what we are doing in our church, Mars Hill. Danny and I have been leading a newlyweds community group in our home since the beginning of the fall. It has been a wonderful group, and we look forward to walking beside them through the rest of their first year of marriage. What a blessing and a joy to be focusing on marriage! I have also been asked to head up Women's Ministry for the Wedgwood Campus (the campus we attend) and have been asked to speak at one of four sessions during the church-wide women's retreat in February. This is both humbling and exciting, and I look forward to being a part of vision casting for women's ministry, Wedgwood style!

In other news...Danny will finish his DTS degree this year! Praise the Lord! He will fly to Dallas once in January for a week long class and then 4 times to Austin for a weekend class. A rather intense way to finish things, but he will be finished, and that's the goal! Whew!

So...no new pics for this update. I'll be taking some shortly, I'm sure, and blogging away. I am determined to stay on top of this! :)

If you think about it, would you pray...
* that we will have enough of ourselves to go around in this season of working, serving, learning.
* that I will have great joy in this new job.
* that we will have wisdom in decision making as we go forward.

Love to you all!