Tuesday, July 24, 2012

It's been a long time

So it's been a really long time since I have posted and a ton has happened. Some good, some not so good so here it goes........ As the school year ended I was swamped with work. Between some massive clean-up of the science department which included filling an industrial sized dumpster, to updating the chemical inventory and consolidating and labelling the hazardous waste for pick-up by CSWD, I found myself taking on a leadership role. While doing this I also had to put in the work to complete my portfolio and put together my defense for my capstone action research. I also had to create my speech for class night and announce names for graduation. Graduation and class night went well and finishing my masters program successfully were very strong emotional highs for me. Shortly after this we were able to enjoy the company of Mom, Dad and Aunt Judy as they made a summer trip out East. It was fun playing Euchre again after a very long hiatus.

On the down side, the afternoon that I finished my masters presentation we got a call that Beth's parents house was burning down. It is unimaginable what this means for them. Luckily the family ties are strong and nobody was hurt. We have been helping as much as we can to help support her parents through working with organizing insurance issues and completing house contents lists. As of right now I think things are on track for getting them back into their new house by October (fingers crossed).

In the past few days we were able to get to downtown Burlington and enjooy the waterfront boardwalk, we also got the motorboat out. I was happy to start the motor on the first pull of the cord. Yeah!!!

We have plans to get out to Indiana soon and then see where the rest of the summer takes us.

Thats it for now
Pics to follow soon.