Just a quick update! This last week was the last week of summer vacation 2024! :( I can't believe how fast it went. I feel like our family has lived 5 different lives in the past 4 months! We've gone from being super busy with Josh being gone to the FBI Academy in April/May and both boys being busy with track and Avery and I being busy with school, to traveling out to Washington DC and Wisconsin, to getting Gabe ready to leave on his mission, to Gabe actually LEAVING on his mission, to us fumbling around and trying to figure out life without him. And now another school year is starting tomorrow and I can't even believe it! I told someone that this is the least I have thought about school starting in all my years of teaching. I feel mostly ready, but I haven't really obsessed over the details like I usually do because I just feel like there's been so much else on my mind! I haven't even had room left in my brain to stress about school! Also, I think the fact that I'm only going to be there until 12:30 each day has me feeling like, "It's all fine, it's going to be a breeze." But I still should probably lesson plan! lol It's just been crazy busy at the school too because the new addition got done and it caused a huge shake up of classrooms, so I'm one of the few that isn't moving! So this last week when we weren't at the high school for inservice days, we were at the junior high and I was helping other teachers clean out the English closet and/or move things into their classroom. I really didn't spend a lot of time sitting in MY classroom getting ready! So, we will see how it all goes tomorrow! Guess we will find out! lol
I feel like my mood has been better this week. I started taking magnesium supplements, which a neighbor/doctor had recommended, and I feel like that's helped. I had sent some of those to Gabe a few weeks ago when he was struggling and he started feeling better too, so I don't know if that made the difference or just that he got adjusted to being there too. I also started taking my birth control pills again. I was seriously just feeling so weird those last couple weeks that I wasn't on them. I was super weepy and I could hardly even sleep, my mind just kept running. I'd wake up and stress about Gabe being gone and my mind would just keep racing about all of my anxieties about life in the future, and it was so bad. There was one night I really only got like 3 hours of sleep. So I started taking them again and the magnesium at the same time, and I think it's been better these past few days. I'm still telling Josh, "I still feel like I might be being prompted to have another baby, which I realize sounds crazy. But why can't I stop thinking about it?" I don't know if I'm still just sad about Gabe being gone or if there's really something the Lord is trying to tell me. I told Josh, "Maybe you just get your vasectomy reversed, and I stop taking my birth control pills for a few months, and we just see. Then if it does't happen, we'll know and be like, "Welp, we tried." He's like, "Heeecccck no." He didn't say those exact words, but basically. Truthfully, statistically even if he did get it reversed, there's only like a 40 percent chance of his swimmers being successful after a vasectomy ten years ago. So, it's pretty likely it wouldn't even happen. But what if?? Who knows. I'm probably just a 40-year-old lady having a midlife crisis, I know.
Anyways, let me talk about Caleb's football game opener! After practicing all summer, the day finally arrived! On Friday, August 23, Caleb ran out onto the field with all the other Madison Bobcats and played a great game! He ended up playing guard because Cary Fa was injured. All summer he has been playing as center, so I really hope he gets to play that again when Cary comes back! The problem is, the other guy who plays center is a senior, and they tend to give priority to seniors. I just wish the would bench him and let Caleb play because even Justin Mumm who coached last year told me Caleb is sooo much better than Teagan. We will see! But the game went well. It started pouring during the first quarter and there was even some lightning, but the didn't call it off! We ended up beating the Bonneville Bees 41-6. It was a great way to start the season! Here are some pictures!
On Saturday, Caleb and I went to Idaho Falls and watched Cayson Summers play in his little grid kid jamboree. It wasn't the same as having your own kid out there to watch. :( I really wish I had a little boy that was 10 right now! But I can't just ZAP one in unfortunately! Caleb has been helping coach their team a little bit, so he was my excuse to go along and watch. Then we went to Winco and got some groceries, and then we drove over and watched the beginning of the freshmen game. They were doing really well and I would've watched more, but Josh called and was wanting us to hurry back so he, Caleb, Cody, Colter, and Cayson could all go fishing together. Josh had planned on going fishing on Friday with some work friends (Hirschi and a couple others) but then they had a homocide happen late Thursday night, and Josh ended up being gone all night dealing with that, so the fishing didn't happen on Friday morning! I'm glad they got to go on Saturday. He needed to decompress a little I think. Between Eliah's suicide last week and all the funeral stuff and now this homocide, it's been pretty heavy.
Also, we got to talk to Gabe two days ago on Friday! It was the 4th Facetime call we've had with him as a missionary, and I feel like he's definitely so much better adjusted than he was since the first one. When we had the first one (only two days after he had gotten there) I really wondered if he would stay out on his mission! He was sooo homesick and sad. But now, he says all the time that he's feeling a lot better and he's feeling excited to leave the MTC. The crazy thing is, he will probably leave there in about a week! He told us that tomorrow (August 26) he is taking a bus with a few other missionaries to UVU to meet with the Spanish consulate about his visa. It sounds like the visa has been approved and he just needs to go meet in person to pick it up! So, he's excited, but I'm a little nervous! I feel like he's well-adjusted and comfortable right now and in a week and half, we will have another P-Day call where he's sad and homesick and nervous. It sounds like I'm in for the next two years of being a constant roller coaster of ups and downs and just worrying from thousands of miles away! I don't know how I'm going to handle that! But here are some of his best pictures from the past week (lots more will be on his other blog).
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