the essence

I've been meaning to update, I really have! I even have pictures. However, our time at home is short-lived this week & full of "productive" activities like cleaning the bathroom, laundry and, my *favorite,* sorting through the girls clothes. The good news is Kate will finally have shoes to wear now that I've pulled them out of storage!

We are officialy more than halfway through our training this week. I had a horrible awful mood on Monday. I started out the day in a bad mood & it got worse while we were here & I complained & complained. I prayed a lot about it & apologized to people & the rest of the week has gone much better. The training hasn't improved, but my attitude has which makes things more bearable.

One thing that really tipped me over the edge on Monday was that after arriving to our four-day training they informed us it was a five-day training. This was after a verbal, written & online-schedule confirmation for four-days. When people made a fuss they told us if we couldn't make it on Friday we could come in one day next week. That just didn't work for us so I wrote (what I'm pretty sure was a rather professional) e-mail asking them to honor their verbal & written agreement with us. The next day they announced to the class that the fifth day is optional! Yay!