I don't remember how exhausted I was last year after we brought in our families, but this year definitely wore me out. I think I was just caught in the whirlwind of it all last year and didn't notice how tired I was or how worn out I was.

Our move in was successful yesterday, we got 4 families moved in and finished up the moving in just about 4 hours. I drove all over the city a few times and carried lots of things up and down stairs and in and out of cars.

Tomorrow is our first open session with the entire group, which should be interesting. I'm just ready for it to be the weekend already. I plan on spending most of it curled up with a book. There is something soothing about the retreat into fiction that just cannot be duplicated.

There is an article in this week's Current (my home conference newspaper) about me and the US-2 program and the US-2 that is being sent to IGRC to work at Cunningham Children's Home. Though it says the article was a blog post, it wasn't. But they linked here anyway. I expect my readership to spike within the next week and then die down again, so maybe I'll get some content driven posts here soon.

I'm working on some ideas for activities for our families currently and I'm excited about what we may be able to try to offer this year. Now that I sort of know what I'm doing, I feel a lot more confident about planning things and getting things done. I really want our families to feel at home and to feel part of the larger community.

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