I am continually amazed at how lucky I am to know the people I know. Today was no exception. So much support and sweetness came in unexpected ways. ❤
A wonderful visit with Suz and Debb – plus coffee!
Then more visiting with Suz while we picked out some flowers for my garden. She is really good at tolerating the heat! Hahahaha!
A nice little visit with Mom and Dad.
Delicious dinner and good visit with David.
#blessed
A little break from the heat with this cool, misty, pretty day.
Knowing, even in the middle of a challenging day, that the state of tired-achy-stressed frustration was just temporary, and that at some point I’d feel happy and grateful again. 😉
Etch A Sketches, Lite Brites, hula hoops, slinkys, jump ropes, jacks, slip and slides, and pogo sticks.
Coffee coffee coffee for an unusually early morning. 🙂
Robert and the other friendly staff and whose wry humor put us at ease and had us laughing in the various waiting rooms at the hospital today.
Good news on Dad’s thyroid tests — nothing to biopsy. Hooray!
Going to bed at 8 pm if that’s what’s needed. I guess the last couple weeks are catching up with me. Hahaha! Nightynight.
Waking up counting my blessings, basking in the glow of deep and wonderful friendships.
Deep, centering breaths.
Feeling hopeful.
Getting in a little walk before it got unbearably hot and humid.
Iced coffee.
Black raspberries right off the bush.
Purring kitties and an early night.
A job flexible enough to allow me time to drive down to Rochester with the Cheezgirls for a couple hours of catching up with wonderful women.
Cheezgirls afternoon! How lucky I am to be friends with such funny, bright, lovable, smart, fascinating women – and to have been friends with them for decades! 🙂
Being surprised and overwhelmed by new levels of sneaky generosity demonstrated by these women. All I can say is that I am truly humbled by my great good fortune to have a life filled with people like this. ❤
4-hug goodbye visits (the ones where you say goodbye, hug, then talk for 10 more minutes, walk to the door, say goodbye, hug, then talk for 10 more minutes, walk to the sidewalk, say goodbye, hug, talk for 10 more minutes, finally manage to say goodbye and hug and end the conversation at the car.) So nice to catch up with Kari last night!
Impromptu Cheezygirls visit today and plans for more fun tomorrow. So great to hang out with folks you’ve known and loved your whole life. 🙂
Thundery rainy evenings.
Magical restoration of internet connection just long enough to get done what needed to get done. Thanks for the magical boost, Alison. 🙂
Annual trip into Sammy’s with the gang. So good!
A little bocce ball and slapdash in the afternoon, always fun.
Gorgeous evening canoe ride with Alison and Katie and our little communion with the mama and papa loons. What a beautiful evening!
I realize I’ve already appreciated this, but I really appreciate again how amazing it smells up here. The air and trees and plants all mix and mingle and create the single best smell there is. ❤
Another lovely walk with my dad. 🙂
Daytime puzzling with Heidi, Debb, and my mom (with musical help from Ivan) – no flashlights needed!
The arrival of Alison and Katie. Yay! It is so much fun to have them up here. Alison thinks the cabins are “cute” — which I think is cute. 😀
Perfect sunny, warm-but-not-hot day with blue skies and a gorgeous lake.
Someone’s diligent sand-castling.
Wonderful little canoe trip with my dad down to the creek including a visit from a loon, who floated along beside us (well 10 feet away, but much closer than usual) for a minute. ❤
Silly late night puzzle completion (using our flashlights on our phones) with my mom and Debb. It was well past bed time, but we did it!
Misty morning with frogs and woodpeckers.
Cool and comfy temperatures.
Fun and games.
The smell of a campfire. Mmmm.
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