Thursday, July 23, 2020

...Two months later...

Well... nearly two months later, here I am, still alive. 

So where have we been? What have we been doing? We've been really busy. We were on duty more in June and July than usual. Plus throw in a vacation and a trip to Illinois. 

So a quick picture recap of June:
we went kayaking with Pine house

House Parent kids really know how to live the good life

boys in a hay field

Pine house cookout

the barn with residents

We only had a few days off duty before we went to Wyss Vacation. The nice thing was, it was at Rita and Loren's so we didn't have to go far. 

swimming :)


cousins!

One evening Rita's Amish friend let us all take buggy rides. 




a tiny buggy :)

Evening kayaking on the St. Joe

a tour of a chocolate factory

Nathan's Father's Day gift

:)
  
One of our resident's had a birthday. He requested a chocolate mocha cake. I had fun. 

I mean....

swimming at Pine House

 June went so fast.  We tried to enjoy as much of it as we could. 

A quick July recap:

 We took our first post-quarantine trip out to Illinois. 

We were able to hit up Faire coffee!!!

swimming at the farm :)

Cousins = fun and chaos :)

 We visited Grandpa and Grandma and Pearline too. 



Waiting for a combine ride...
this picture looks cute but the real story:
They had lined up to ride the combine and these two kept inching forward to be first...

:)
harvesting the wheat

:)


all the Wyss cousins

racing

on your marks, get set...

Go!

Church in Washington in the tent

And then we went out to the Braker's


feeding the goats

milking the goats

visiting the gardens Emily works at 



feeding the goats, day 2

And then we drove back to Indiana and went on duty that night. 

light saber fight with a resident. :)

they have no idea what they are doing

painting during the residents' quiet time

back home for a few days...

a visit to the splash park

 After a short 3 days off, we went on double duty at Oak house for 5 days.  It was a new experience to be on at Oak. It's a teen mom house so it came with some interesting challenges. 

Campus has been very tense/crazy lately. A house parent couple has COVID and are in quarantine, making staffing very slim. We've gotten a lot of new residents who are causing issues, and that plus the usual craziness that comes with the job, things have been harder than usual. 

My mom came out our last day on at Oak and took the kids to Rita's. We've had two days off and she's been helping us start the packing and moving process. Because, in 10 days we are moving to Maple house to hopefully open it again and be leads there. 

That's been our lives for the past two months. Full. Busy. Fun. Stressful. All of the above. 

In Christ
~Michelle

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