Life Update

Here's a life update from our household!

Kolby sent in his fourth and final application for creative writing graduate programs last week. Now it's the tough part... twiddling our thumbs for two months awaiting letters. As I mentioned before, the acceptance rate for the schools he's applied to are VERY low. But we're excited about the possibility of him getting to go back to school- after all, it is his turn again. In the meantime, he loves teaching English and is ridiculously good at it.

I don't have any good words to summarize my feelings towards my thesis at the moment. I've never worked so hard at anything in my entire life. Not even close. But, the end is now in sight. My oral defense has been scheduled for March 17th and I'll have to turn in a final copy of my thesis to the professors on my committee by March 5. That's in less than two weeks! Somehow I'll have to get it finished by then. I continue to work on it 8 hours a day and I survive it all by eating half a pan of Rice Krispies Treats when I need a break.

I've applied to a few jobs, but it's not exactly a great time to be entering the job market. It's going to be crazy to try to coordinate the prospects of grad school and jobs for the both of us, but even if everything falls through--- Kolby has a guaranteed job for next year at the high school he teaches at now, and we're very happy with our life here in Waco. It is such a blessing to have that assurance. It would be exponentially more stressful if we didn't have a fallback plan, and it's a heck of a fallback plan!

So that's the scoop with us.

In unrelated news, Kolby and I joined a co-ed softball team and our first game is this Thursday. Kolby is ecstatic. Also, we're finalizing our Spring Break plans and it looks like we are getting to take our first family road trip! We're heading to Colorado to visit some of our best friends for a few days. And--- we'll get to introduce Maya to snow! She told us that something deep within her tells her she's going to LOVE IT!