Mood:  a-ok

Hello everyone.  I know it's been awhile since I've updated my blog.  There's been a lot that has happened since I last posted.  I am currently living back up in Ohio with my parents.  My brother has also moved back in too.

I am hoping to get back on my feet, and I am currently working at a place that is pretty nice.  It's just up and around the corner from my parents' house.  I am hoping to get my own place up here somewhere close, but it's really super expensive.  I think I'd do better with moving a little further south or north of where I am currently.

I can't believe that in May, it will be 2 years since I left the convent.  I still think about the sisters constantly and am also still thinking about religious life.  It's something that I'm trying to let go of, but it just keeps haunting me.  Perhaps I'm meant to found my own order.  I find it interesting that many of the women who started their own religious communities were either married, had kids, where older, had a disability, or a combination of all of those.   My favorite saint was paralysed and had sight and speach problems and she still started a religious community.  If she can do it, then maybe I can...  Just a thought.  So far down the line...

I've still been working on my artwork.  Perhaps one day, I'll find a way to post some of it here for you all to see.  I'm currently working on a picture of Saint Julie Billiart with some sunflowers.  I think I'll also add one of her quotes to the top of the page.  I've noticed that I paint the same things over and over, so I need to vary my work.  I just don't know what to draw/paint that would be interesting to do.  I do lots of sunflowers.  But I've also done people (I like drawing the Virgin Mary with baby Jesus), a birdhouse, and some trees.  Anyone have any suggestions they'd like to see?

I have a couple of friends who are Sisters of Precious Blood.  I'd LOVE to make them a piece of art, but I'm not sure what I'd draw/paint for them. I want to make it something that would be significant to them.  Would love ideas on this too.

I am really thinking about joining the Associate program with the Sisters of Notre Dame.

PEACE OUT!