Our New Life

As I mentioned last week, this week Jeremy started summer school. Not only did he start classes, but he also increased his work hours to 35 hours per week. He leaves the house at 7:30 am and gets home sometime between 9:30 and 10 pm. This has made for some very longs days with many more long days to come.

Despite this crazy schedule, we have found a way to make some time to spend as a family. Our crazy days go as follows: Jeremy works until 3:30 and then studies until just before 5:30. Meanwhile I make dinner and pack it up to go and at 5:30 Merrick and I meet Jeremy at the school for dinner. We eat dinner and then take a walk through the forest to the school's baseball fields. We play a little baseball as a family until 7. After baseball we walk back to the car and get Merrick dressed in his pajamas. At 7:15 Merrick and I head home to make Merrick's 7:30 bedtime and Jeremy heads into school to make his 7:30 class.









When you see it written out it seems really crazy, but I just feel blessed that we are able to do it. Had Jeremy gone to a different school, had we lived farther from the school, or had Jeremy's work been farther from school, this would not be possible. When we were deciding which school Jeremy should go to, we felt prompted that if he went to Lewis and Clark, we would be able to spend the most time together as a family and I feel really grateful that despite the craziness, we have this precious time together.