Doula Adventures: It's Official!

I babysat for 10.5 hours last weekend. No, I'm not cra-... ok, I'm slightly crazy. But you know what made those 10.5 hours totally worth it? Those hours earned me the last chunk of registration money for Birth Arts International, and today I clicked "make payment and begin the next step in your doula adventures...and your life." Ok, the button didn't really say that; I'm projecting a bit. But that's the jist of what it said, or what I felt, because now it is official: I've started the process of doula certification!!!

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Step One: read the manual. 

Step Two: create a plan and schedule for the various assignments. 

Step Three: blog about it :D I know you're dying to follow along, so please note you made it into the top three items on this {massive} to-do list. That's right, feel the love. 

I can't thank you all enough for your kind comments, encouragement, questions, and enthusiasm. I've doubted myself many times {and I'm sure I will doubt myself again}, and you all keep holding me up and helping me push on past the worries and insecurities. You all are the best!

This post is short because I have a lot of reading to do, but hey, it's official reading now :)

Welcome, August

This week has been a bit off. Ye olde blog has been slightly neglected while I was in alllllll daaaaaay looooooonnggg meetings Tuesday and Wednesday, and we are lucky to have "finished this" on Thursday. I'm usually a pretty positive person, so I feel weird blogging when I don't have anything happy to say. When life hands me lemons, I tend to withdraw from the blogosphere.

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At the beginning of July, I told you how difficult the month of June was for me. July felt ten times harder. The highs were higher and the lows were lower, and some situations were both at the same time. Ugh, July, you were really rough!

So I'm ready for August. I'm ready for a settling into whatever new season is coming next {I know the next season is Autumn; I was being metaphorical and spiritual and stuff}. I'm ready for change and adjustments and something different. 

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