busy as a bee

life has been moving at 100 mph lately! i have lots of different projects going on and am super busy but i am still loving it. better busy than bored. plus it keeps me out of trouble :)

since i have decided that i would like to return to racine and john xxiii next year, i have been focusing on trying to get something going with health care resources for our families. the racine community has a TON of free clinics and places that do health care consulting for low income families already which is really great! i want to get all this information together and visit the clinics and see if we can work on building a relationship with these places so that our families can take advantage of the services that they offer. i am excited about it and hope that it will end up being successful.

i am also going to be starting a group at one of the schools here for 8th grade girls about decision making and other issues for them to consider as they begin to think about transitioning into high school. i think this is going to be a really great way for me to test out the whole public health thing to see if it is really something that i would like to pursue in the future. i am excited to get started with it but i have to make up my own plan for it so that has been taking some. i think i have some good ideas and hopefully the girls will like them too. i have about 2 weeks before it starts so there is still some time to get everything together.

last weekend some volunteers from chicago came to visit for the annual "mardi crawl" celebration in racine. it was a really fun weekend and it was nice to have some visitors! this weekend all the volunteers in the midwest are having a retreat right outside of st. louis. we are going to spend the weekend together thinking about where we are headed and taking some time to reflect and relax. it will be nice to have a little change of scenery and the midwest has a good group of volunteers so it should be a good time.

other than that, things are pretty standard. the weather is starting to get nicer so our attendance is back up at the center, which is great but it wears me out sometimes! i think the kids are getting spring fever (as am i!) and sometimes i feel like they just suck the energy out of me. but i dont mind because they are funny and i have no other complaints :)

thats it for now i suppose. life is good!