Life is Getting Busy

It is kinda funny to me because I have worked very hard to have a simplified life. I did just that last year, and now I'm ready to come back to the land of the living. Not that I wasn't living, it's more like everybody else seemed to be busier than me. Anyway, as I am determined to begin a couple of things, others seem to add themselves to my schedule, and it is getting pretty full!! For starters I feel DONE with some things I started last year, and my heart is not in them anymore, but I have committed to them for the rest of the school year. I am ready to move on to my new things that I really want to do.

OK, here are my new things in life:

1) My mediation internship with the Santa Clara County. I am now doing my own mediations, both, in small claims court and victim/offender cases. Learning as I go really. When they tell you hands-on learning, it really means: there is nobody to train you for long, so go at it, make mistakes, and learn from them.

2) My new Spanish class twice a week besides the one I already teach. Yikes!

3) My good friend inviting me to co-teach an Anxiety Management class. This is something I have been praying to do for a long time, am excited about, and I know I am supposed to do, but I wish it had come before I'd committed to more Spanish classes. Oh, well, life will be busy for a few months, then I would need to rearrange my schedule again.

I am getting excited about the future. For a while there I was having a hard time being almost done as a mommy, after having mothered for so many years, a lot of my identity was in that. And even though I am not done yet, I wanted something to look forward to besides grandchildren :)