It's been forever.
Forever. And. A. Day.
Too long since I've been here. Maybe that's a good thing or a really, really bad thing. One can't be too quick to judge. The truth of the matter is the Cox family has been tremendously busy. Almost too busy. I took up running as a means to escape the chaos. Slowly, I started. No sooner than I started did life catch up with me and I found myself with no time to escape the chaos. There's a long list of things continuing in our lives. Amongst the wildfires and raging heat, our life has been coasting along in a sea of utter ~sometimes painful~ tranquility. As a family of three, working full time seems to be enough. But is it ever really? Not here, obviously.
1) I enrolled myself into college. Long overdue so I plunged in full time. What was I thinking? More money, less work, the American dream? It's too early to answer that question. I do know that it's been 16 years since I've had homework of any sort and it's still no fun. It's not as bad as it seems. One physical class, three online classes. However, my three online classes all want the work due by Sunday at midnight, which means weekend homework. Fortunately, I work for an awesome company that works around me going to school 2 days a week.
2) Elijah is playing football. Evidently, 3rd grade football equates to 3 practices a week from 6-8 PM and games on Saturday evenings. If he didn't love it so much, we wouldn't be there at all. He plays center. And he's happy to have a permanent position and to be useful to the team. He loves his coaches and he's growing a lot as an athlete. It would almost seem to me that the "coach" makes the the "athlete." Or maybe they can just hinder the athlete. Regardless, Elijah is doing awesome at football this go around.
3) We're just about to start our classes to be foster parents. Yikes! We're happy about this but scared. Our goal is to adopt, not just foster. It's been a long thought out process of over 2 years for us. Jason was inspired by seeing all the "state" kids in the NICU at Arkansas Children's Hospital. Babies lying there with no parents to console them, to cry over them, to pray for them. God placed this on his heart back then but only now have we acted on it. We've been slow - making sure we were doing it for all the right reasons and not because we were empty after Jonah. We have a lot of love to give and what I consider a good home. We hope and pray the state sees it that way, too.
4) I'm skydiving September 10th. Another Yikes! Grabbing life by the reins and holding on. Again, I blame Elijah for this. He planted this in my mind and things don't always go well planted in my mind. I want to touch the sky and see the world from a different perspective.
5) Jason's having surgery September 16th. Minor. Nothing serious and nothing to be talked about here. I'm just using it as an example of our busy life. Plain and simple.
Let's do the math: I work 5 days a week (I can't even explain Jason's schedule.) Elijah has football 4 days a week. I'm in school 2 days a week and weekend homework. We're jumping out of airplanes and going under the knife. It's a crazy world. On a positive note, we haven't had a moment to gripe about gas prices, the economy, Obama or the weather.
Tonight, I made fresh donuts from scratch. Not the cut-a-hole-in-a-biscuit type. I mean, real donuts. Yeast, flour, sugar and shortening was involved. Elijah sat on the counter top, playing my iPhone, as I dipped the last of the donuts in the glaze.
Tonight, I am super-mom.
