still learning

Many of us learned the song as a child...

He's still working on me, to make me what I ought to be

It took six days to make the moon and the stars, the sun and the earth and jupiter and mars.

How loving and patient He must be,

cause He's still working on me

That song is still true at 26 years of age. There are days that I forget that God is working on making me who I should be and that I shouldn't try to mess things up. I quickly forget that God is in charge and has always shown himself in my life. I'm so thankful for a loving and patient God who continues to work on me and show me who I should be.

Lord, help me every day to remember that YOU are in charge of my life. Help me to be a better wife. Help me to be a better leader to the teens and to our church. Help me to be a better friend. But most of all Lord, help me to be better at striving to be more like you.

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July 24th, 2009

Less than one month

11:49 pm

Wow this has been a busy/stressful few weeks. Quit work. Packed stuff. Moved Craig's stuff and my stuff to Evansville. Then we go back this week to clean the apartments. Starting a new job of youth director. We also have marriage counseling and planning in the mix of everything. I finally broke down and cried last night about things. It just seems like there's not much time left before the wedding (which there isn't since there's less than a month) and it seems like there's so much jam packed in it all that there's barely room to breathe. It's funny because the thing that set off the crying was just the fact that the day I thought we could do the bachelorette party won't work out. It's weird that it's the little stuff. Sometimes when I'm stressed though...I almost shut myself off and stop doing stuff that I know I need to do. It's like I lack motivation even though there's big motivation to get the tasks accomplished. It's so sad that I'm just ready for this all to be done. I'm ready to be married to Craig and go relax on the beach in St. Lucia. Only a few more weeks. It's almost not even comprehensible & I'm more than ready to be Mrs. Schulte. I feel like things will calm down a ton when that happens!

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March 24th, 2009

5 more months

11:23 pm

It's so crazy to think 5 more months until my life is changed forever :) I'm going to be a wife....weird. It's a bundle full of emotions as I prepare. I've been upset, excited, disappointed, angry, hopeful...and many more. Some days as I prepare I just can't wait for the wedding to get here and other days I break into tears about things and wish we had decided to elope :) Oh well....I guess that's pretty normal...girls and all our drama. Luckily it's preparing Craig for what life with me will be like FOREVER!

We went to a get to know the church class on Sunday night at Batesville Christian Church. After many, many, many services at other churches, we felt the most comfortable at BCC. We've been going there whenever we've been in town since January. We hadn't had much chance to get to know people since we've been feeling so busy with everything. It felt so good to go to the class on Sunday night and meet new people. I'm very excited to grow closer to these great people and to find our place in this church. If anyone knows me, I won't be able to sit still in the church for long :) I'm ready to be INVOLVED in a church again!

I'm planning to head back to Evansville for Easter. It'll be good to be back, since it's been since the beginning of February since I've been there...I mean I was 25 back then...it's been too long!!!!! The only bittersweet thing is that Craig and I decided to part ways for Easter. His parents had already asked us to come for Easter to celebrate his sisters birthdays. But in order to cut back on so many weekends on traveling, we figured this would be best. It'll give us both some quality times with our families...plus my mom wants to take me shopping---which Craig would NOT enjoy :)

Well, just a little update on the life of me:)

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March 6, 2009

March 6th, 2009

up to date

11:21 pm

Decided to journal again....I need this kind of an outlet. So to catch everyone up to date on the happenings of my life....

• I went to Ukraine for 5 months and learned so much about myself, life and another culture. I have no regrets about my time there and I'm so glad I got to experience it.
• After I got back from Ukraine...I started working at the Cone...again and lived with the Wren's...yeah I know...as if I didn't already feel like I was a part of the Wren family before from working at the Cone for 8 summers..try living with them. No seriously...I am so glad they helped me out and I'm so thankful for such good friends.
• I have been dating Craig Schulte for over a year & 1/2 now. He proposed to me around Thanksgiving and we are getting married on August 22. I'm so excited to spend the rest of my life with him!
• I haven't seen my brother in almost 3 years. Craziness...BUT he's coming home in July at least for a while...I'm pretty pumped about this. I'm also pumped to INTRODUCE him to my fiance...I know it's weird that they haven't met.
• I'm going to be an aunt. Well technically...I won't be an aunt until after I'm married...since it's Craig's sister that's pregnant, but I'm claiming my soon to be nephew as soon as he's born in July :) I'm excited to be a part of spoiling him.
• I'm sooooo thankful it's almost warm weather again. I joke that I don't have many hobbies...and Craig has a million, but he's gotten me hooked on one-BOATING. He's got his own boat and I fell in love with being out on the lake last summer. I have also successfully kneeboarded and wakeboarded...ok yeah, so I was only up on the wakeboard for less than a minute, but it was still an accomplishment.
• I'm working at an area agency on aging now. It's so much to learn, but I really do like helping people.
• I'm living in a very small town in Indiana....again.
• I have been trying to eat healthier and work out at Curves. I'm not following the strictest diet, but I definitely feel a lot better than I used to. I think I lost close to 15 pounds while I was in Ukraine...so now I'm mainly trying not to gain it all back :)
• Some of my friendships have really faded in the last year, not really clear on why and it makes me sad. But as I've been adjusting to this...I have realized how important my parents continue to be to me...and I feel like they have become some of my best friends.
• I turned 26.YUCK. It's just hard thinking about getting older...and harder to think about others getting older.

So that's some of the highlights from my life in the last like year and 1/2. I'm going to probably post more details about some of these things in the future...but I had to start somewhere :)