It has finally arrived. The final day of CPE!!! I am so glad it is here but I am ready to have a break. I think I have said this before – perhaps a few times, eh? I know, I know, its been my mantra lately! What an amazing journey this has been. I have grown so much over the past 11 weeks – I am in a completely different space today than I was when CPE began. No doubt part of it is due to just being home and getting reacquainted with the man I love and leaving the stress of seminary behind. I have met three wonderful people who have made the CPE journey a positive experience, my two peers and my supervisor. So today is bittersweet because I need to say goodbye to some patients who have welcomed me into their journey of healing and dying. I also need to say farewell to some of the staff who have been instrumental on this journey. Then it’s on with life! I can’t wait for the rest of the journey.

I don’t get it. Actually I am very frustrated by it. Maybe someone out there is cyberspace can help me with this – I have been trying to add to my list of blogs I like to visit. It will not let me add Kristen Steele’s Canadian Lutheran Chick blog. I dont’ get it…Anyone else have trouble with that. I looked on a couple of the other blogs I visit and they have it so WHY WHY WHY won’t it go on mine….help.

Well….Alan and I decided we would try the dogs in basket thing again. Check it out. This time Holly did not try to get out she sat very well. Her harness worked well. Perhaps she was so scared she couldn’t move even if she had wanted to!! When we went for the ride I didn’t go that fast. I really hope she will tolerate it when we go out for a real ride. We will try her again tomorrow. Here are some pictures from this….man, my kids are cute – perhaps I am biased a teensy bit???? hmmmm???

Speaking of tomorrow – it is my last full day of CPE. I cannot believe that this course has ended. I have a lot of things to mull over in my mind about CPE. The stories I have heard; the lives I have been welcomed to share in; the tears I have wiped away; the laughter – it has been an extremely enriching experience. But I am really ready to move on. After our holiday my internship begins. I am soooo ready for that!!

I am procrastinating doing my sermon prep for this Sunday. I had a great visit with my niece, took the dogs for a walk, met my neighbors, helped Alan find stuff to pack the trailer with….yah, procrastination, isn’t it great!