On Friday night, it just worked out for us to get together with some great friends at the last minute, and have dinner at a food truck at a brewery downtown. I went straight for a hazy IPA, and it hit the spot for all the right reasons.
The past several months there has been a lot going on.
It won’t be helpful to name specifics- but there have been a few challenges. I have been in counseling, and there has been some great progress in some areas, but other things are still on the rails.
Those are my downs, but this weekend I got to enjoy the ups. It was great to see Houston and Sara, Chad and Rachel, even Allison Core and new husband Jaime; Robert Core, and all the kiddos: 11 in total.
Allison and Jaime, in town from Asheville, shared some updates from their journey. That town is really in shambles, but they are doing great while they wait for water to be restored to their neighborhood.
The kiddos know just what to do; these days things are on cruise control because there aren’t any diapers, and none of the kids are going to wonder off into traffic: all this means we can hang out and spend some time together. Its good for the soul, and the IPAs are good for everything else.
We marched right through the weekend with more excellent weather. In 2 days I:
- Patched a tire that had a nail in it
- replaced the inside “guts” of a leaky toilet
- Sharpened the mower blades
- Mowed the lawn
- Change water filter in the refrigerator
- Replace batteries in smoke detector
And Taylor took the bull by the horns and got Rosie’s room up to snuff by organizing and cleaning out everything, from top to bottom. This in itself was a monstrous project. There are no pictures of this task, and you should be thankful.
Also, since I know all 3 of my readers of the blog are curious, yes, the grass growing has been successful:
And, Happy Birthday Zippy!
Success begets success- so after winning with some friends on Friday, and winning with our house projects- we continued the momentum to celebrate a pretty awesome mother-in-law.
She turned 36, and we had a chance to do a low-key celebration on a Sunday Evening at Summerfield Farms. We really lucked out with the weather all weekend- it was perfect.
Zippy is an energetic, exciting grandma and really sets the bar pretty high. There isn’t a way to really give her a proper “thanks”, but I hope she felt honored to be around this small group that enjoys spending time with her.
