August 26, 2025 - Tuesday



Such a beautiful, awesome day. We spent hours and hours at Wild & Free this morning/early afternoon at Shale Hollow Park. We walked, hung out in the natural play area, and the kids explored in the creek a little. I got so much time to visit with people and the kids had so much fun. I mean, it was just a perfect morning with perfect weather. 

We went to the car wash afterward and FINALLY cleaned the dang car out! Man, it was filthy. I don't know when the next time will be that it'll be nice enough out to do this again, so I had to take advantage of my chance. I had all the kids help out...except for Ruby, who just sat in her seat, eating sandwiches. 😅

By the time we got home, I was feeling pretty tapped out socially, so I hid in my room and read for an hour. Jonas acted as a guard and didn't let anyone bother me. I also got to shower and blow dry my hair before heading out to dinner with Kamola. We met at Kitchen Social at 5 and, whoa. Their food was insanely good. I've never been there before! I can't believe I've been missing out all this time. Ben and I will have to go on a date there soon because I need more. 

Ollie and I got to have a little date in the side yard this evening, collecting flowers for a bouquet. We also did a little gardening and got seeds from some dead zinnia heads. She's good at separating the seeds from the chaff!

I'm feeling a little discouraged about my job. It seems to me that it was misrepresented when I was hired. I'm not actually doing much supervision or, really, anything at all, aside from recruiting. Recruiting sucks. It was the worst part of my Oasis job, and it is making this whole job seem like a big ol' pile of poop. Was I really just hired to nag people into taking jobs that they don't want?? Nobody has responded to my first large-scale attempt at recruiting, and I've only got 5 people for the servant team meeting in two weeks, when I reached out to 40. I need at least 35!!! Very frustrating! I do not want this job if all I'm doing is recruiting. Maybe it just so happened that my start date kind of coincided with Parenting Meetings starting back up and the servant team meeting being in September and it's not always this bad. That's my prayer. I may get fired for not being able to get people to work for us but right now I simply do not care. I'm wanting OUT.





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