we are on the brink of an amazing weekend.
the kids were picked up by pat's parents. for 48 hours.
i know. i could stop right there and it would be perfect!
i'm cooking dinner in my kitchen {alone!} for 11 of my favorite people to be walking around and eating and sleeping at my house tonight.
i have zac brown band radio on pandora. the porch door is open to let in the most perfect 60-something degree breeze in.
making a YUMMY, healthy dinner. followed by yummy notsohealthy dessert. ;-)
tomorrow morning we will all drive to west virginia and do the tough mudder together. i'm beyond nervous. but also thankful to be strong enough to do something like this. and to have friends and family to do it with. and that believe i can do it. i just know it's going to be the most challenging, stretching, exhilarating thing i've ever done. i'm a little bit excited...and mostly nervous.
after that, pat and i will still have 24 hours alone. just the 2 of us. we don't have much planned because we aren't sure how we're going to feel - ha! but i do have a little list going in my head...of course...
a number of the recipes i'm making for dinner are from shauna niequist's "bread and wine" so it's only appropriate that i share a thought from it with you:
"Let's be courageous in these days. Let's choose love and rest and grace.
Let's use our minutes and hours to create memories with the people we love
instead of dragging them on one more errand or shushing them while we accomplish
one more seemingly necessary thing. ...My prayer is that we'll find ourselves drawn
closer and closer to the heart of the story, the beautiful, beating heart of it all,
that the chaos around us and within us will recede, and the most important things
will be clear and lovely at every turn."
the anticipation of the weekend ahead is almost too much to take in. i'm so thankful for it all. and i pray that i can choose love and rest and grace as i make my way through.
are you anticipating a great weekend??
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