Date night and news of the week

It has been a roller coaster of a week!
 I continue to search for ways to grow my educational (and I've added the word community because I think it is more all inclusive of the type of work I do and want to be doing) consultant business and collecting organizations to consult/work with is a process I can only think is something akin to swimming through peanut butter in my steal toed doc martens of yore!
Especially in this economy, I think schools and other businesses I might work with feel completely confident in thinking that they can just work on their own very slow communication time line and those of us offering services will just wait around until such time as they decide to resurface! Unfortunately, as a result of the economical malaise, the power dynamics inherent in that relationship are rather unavoidable!
I have also reintroduced the writer and performer titles into my professional introductions as both of those things seem be flowing in quite a prodigious and maybe even profit producing fashion, in my life!
The sale of the Beaverton house may or may not happen soon at a different amount and, with different stipulations that we had hoped, chalk another one up to the barreled out economy!
Jeff has been working amazingingly hard, in a very transitional and difficult time at work and seeing the grace and, devotion and. calm he has displayed in regards to both, work and house sale situations, makes me proud to be his wife.
We continue to love each other more and differently, and to know each other more and differently every day! I could not be more thrilled about that!
To that end, we are going on a dinner date to celebrate our one month anniversary of being married, tonight- many thanks to Jeff's parents for sponsoring that event!
Yesterday, my mom and I went shopping for gifts for people who directly contributed to our wedding and she is making thank you cards that will be sent to those people as well as anyone who brought us a gift (even though we asked for no gifts as there will be plenty of opportunity for gift giving at our celebration of continued commitment, family and, community in August). We may also use the thank you cards my mom is designing as the basis for our announcements and invites for the August event! We are so thankful for the support that we have from family, framily, community and, loved ones all around! I feel lucky everyday to be part of my biological and new, immediate family and to have so many people who love and support Jeff and I, everyday!
I am also excited because in less then seven days, I will be able to join Jeff to visit my stepson (though I still prefer and will use whenever possible, the term "bonus", which I am stealing from a friend who is also in the process of blending her family) Ethan!
It will be the first time I have seen Ethan since mid April and my first time in the midwest, Ohio! Get ready to hear about lots of fun indoor and possibly snowy, adventures! I'm sure if Ethan has anything to do with it, one of those adventures will include my introduction to Skyline Chili, apparently an Ohio staple that Ethan loves! I can't wait for any of it!