Seize the Day!

I recently realized this school year is coming to an end. YIKES! They told me this would happen, but really, so soon...?

I am EXCITED (and yet a bit scared) to move into the city next year to teach elementary school. It's all coming together, which is great. This past weekend my future roommate and I found a place that we can move into the beginning of June. I had a wonderfully excited and dreamy day thinking about how I could decorate, the swimming pool so close that I can use, and my new social life ;)

BUT, then I counted the weekends until June and the rest of the year.... dang, why so soon! So many things to do, in addition to school of course, as well as my list of fun to accomplish and people to spend time with. Plus of course there's still that list of unfinished things from February looming, like the button that needs to be sewn back onto my hat, the letter to be written or the desk that needs to be tidied. Really, who wants to do those things?? And then I have to think about packing. NOPE. I don't want to. And I don't really want to think about it right now. Most times I am the Queen of distractions. And so it shall remain until I want to think about this topic.

... soon, maybe.

But it's a little hard to ignore. The emails keep being sent within our internal email system by teachers who are leaving to get rid of stuff. Stuff that might be useful. Stuff that is cheap. Like baking supplies, plants and spices. STUFF STUFF STUFF... I was so happy to minimize when i left Canada and yet somehow I have acquired. STUFF STUFF STUFF means more STUFF to move. More STUFF to think of packing and to find space for. True, mostly it is stuff I have been blessed to have. I should be more thankful. And yet choosy on what is needed.

Change. Again. Friends leaving. City life. A roommate. Moving. Another new season.

REMINDER: "Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you." 1 Peter 5:7

Oh.... right.

Let's just focus on the here and now. For now. Like the crazy 1/2 marathon I entered that I'll be running on the Great Wall on Saturday. Or maybe just doing a ridiculous amount of stretching before then for my sore legs.

Seize the day!