moms x 3 and Georgia x 4
Nov. 19th, 2003 11:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
terrypurple73You know what is wonderful? Not only when your parents are proud of, grateful for, and smiling about you, but when you are proud of, grateful for, and smiling about them.
I talked to my mom on Sunday for the first time in a long long while. We talked for over an hour, just catching up on everything. At one point, she asked me how my applications were going for post-grad volunteering, and I had to say that they have kind of fallen by the wayside recently. She told me that I need to get going on those, since competition could start, but also because she is really excited for me to do this. She said she’s been thinking about it, and she’s just really excited for me. Hooray!! So I was telling that little snippet at our CCSJ staff meeting yesterday, and Maria Teresa jumped in and said, “Everyone, pretend this is your mom saying this….” !!!! Of course, when I got home that evening, I called my mom to tell her I’d been bragging about her. And it was good and happy and wonderful. And she mentioned that she and my dad both have this whole weekend off, and if they had started planning sooner, they could maybe have come to Georgia!!! Oh, the excitement of everything! It’s just wonderful to see people I love being supportive of what I do and even get excited and maybe take part in all of it.
I’ve been thinking about moms a lot lately, in addition to all of this. The mom of one of the freshmen coming this weekend wrote me an email asking some questions about the trip, just wanting to know what it is all about and everything. So I called her back, and we talked for probably 25 minutes on the phone. Just a wonderfully sweet, curious, supportive Minnesota mom wanting to know what her son was getting into.
Also, our Wendy from the CCSJ’s mom died this weekend, exactly what our Wendy did not need. But I went to the funeral today with Ken and Maria Teresa, and it made me think about moms all the more. (And so I cried.)
One of the morals being: Home will be good.
Oh, but I’m not going home yet. Because nineteen hours from right now, I will be in Deglman Circle getting ready to load up five vans to head to Ft. Benning, Georgia. Hooray!
I’m getting super excited. There’s a fair amount to get done tomorrow, but at the same time, it feels like everything is falling into place. Even though I’ve had some difficulties with our team of coordinators, I’ve been really grateful of this team, too. I feel like there is so much pressure taken off of my shoulders, that my neck isn’t the only one out there this year, that we’ve been able to do so much more without getting ourselves too horribly burned out.
I’m just excited. So much has changed about this program since I got involved with it, and so many of the changes have been for the better. I know it’s not perfect, and I know that things need to get changed even further, but I’ve loved watching this evolve. And my thoughts are getting choppy. I will have to talk more about all of this later, and also about feeling like a real social worker recently. But it is my bedtime now. Eep!
I talked to my mom on Sunday for the first time in a long long while. We talked for over an hour, just catching up on everything. At one point, she asked me how my applications were going for post-grad volunteering, and I had to say that they have kind of fallen by the wayside recently. She told me that I need to get going on those, since competition could start, but also because she is really excited for me to do this. She said she’s been thinking about it, and she’s just really excited for me. Hooray!! So I was telling that little snippet at our CCSJ staff meeting yesterday, and Maria Teresa jumped in and said, “Everyone, pretend this is your mom saying this….” !!!! Of course, when I got home that evening, I called my mom to tell her I’d been bragging about her. And it was good and happy and wonderful. And she mentioned that she and my dad both have this whole weekend off, and if they had started planning sooner, they could maybe have come to Georgia!!! Oh, the excitement of everything! It’s just wonderful to see people I love being supportive of what I do and even get excited and maybe take part in all of it.
I’ve been thinking about moms a lot lately, in addition to all of this. The mom of one of the freshmen coming this weekend wrote me an email asking some questions about the trip, just wanting to know what it is all about and everything. So I called her back, and we talked for probably 25 minutes on the phone. Just a wonderfully sweet, curious, supportive Minnesota mom wanting to know what her son was getting into.
Also, our Wendy from the CCSJ’s mom died this weekend, exactly what our Wendy did not need. But I went to the funeral today with Ken and Maria Teresa, and it made me think about moms all the more. (And so I cried.)
One of the morals being: Home will be good.
Oh, but I’m not going home yet. Because nineteen hours from right now, I will be in Deglman Circle getting ready to load up five vans to head to Ft. Benning, Georgia. Hooray!
I’m getting super excited. There’s a fair amount to get done tomorrow, but at the same time, it feels like everything is falling into place. Even though I’ve had some difficulties with our team of coordinators, I’ve been really grateful of this team, too. I feel like there is so much pressure taken off of my shoulders, that my neck isn’t the only one out there this year, that we’ve been able to do so much more without getting ourselves too horribly burned out.
I’m just excited. So much has changed about this program since I got involved with it, and so many of the changes have been for the better. I know it’s not perfect, and I know that things need to get changed even further, but I’ve loved watching this evolve. And my thoughts are getting choppy. I will have to talk more about all of this later, and also about feeling like a real social worker recently. But it is my bedtime now. Eep!
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.just searching random entries..
Date: 2003-11-24 02:28 pm (UTC)i go to loyola chicago--interesting stuff, eh?
anyways, im glad u made it to the protest.
and im glad your mom-stuff is going well. :)
Re: .just searching random entries..
Date: 2003-11-26 02:57 pm (UTC)peace,
~Theresa