Relationships

Thursday was a lovely day. I met up with the Women of Light crew (minus Chantelle) at the temple and we had a beautiful session and shared beautiful insights in the celestial room. 

These girls, I swear. I was reflecting on our journey together and the ups and downs. There were times as we served together that I could have gotten discouraged and put up walls or quit. They are all from DC South (Virginia) and I’m just a little country mouse down here, and that actually makes quite a difference with the women we serve with and their needs. There were times I was the lone disagreer and times I felt like my offering wasn’t good enough. And I bet they had times like that too. But we pushed through the hard and have found lifelong friendships on the other end. 

The kind of friends that start talking and bop around a million subjects because there’s so much we want to know and share. We went to the cutest little cafe for lunch and it was just wonderful. And as we were prepping for a group selfie a cute lady walked past us, then turned around and offered to take a picture. And then she did a good job! 🎉 

I got home to a hug from my Matt! Nate dropped him off on their way home from the airport at noon. Since I didn’t get home till 4, we had all the evening running around, so I just got snippets from his trip, but didn’t get all the details until today. 

Unrelated from Matt’s trip, but related to the picture, I have a lot of aches and pains. I thought everyone did, but when I talked to Amy she said that she, in fact, did not. She said she was a zero on the pain scale that day. I usually hang out around a 1 or 2, sometimes 3 or 4 on a pain scale to 10, so that surprised me. I guess that’s why I’m always looking for things to help with the achies, like this early Mother’s Day gift. It’s an acupressure mat with magical little spikes.

One morning I had a terrible headache. I had taken 3 ibuprofens, drank a ton of water, and a coke, and it still was terrible. So I had Matt rub out a few knots in my back and then laid down with bare skin for the first time on my mat (you first lay on it in a thin shirt to prepare your skin) and after 10 minutes my headache was gone. Could be a placebo, but I’m a believer. 

Bubba sent this little ditty. 😳

And then fessed up that it was just AI. 🤣🤣🤣

This morning Matt and I went for a long walk between his meetings and he told me all about his Warrior Heart man camp. About a month ago Nate texted and asked if he’d like to go to Arizona with him to a men’s retreat. Matt is a big poopoo’er of lots of things and he was like, yeah no. I told him he should go! I’ve heard about those from a podcaster I used to listen to a lot and I love encouraging vulnerability for men and women. Anyway, he decided to go for it and he loved it! I’m so so so happy. He has so many stories and we had the best conversation and I’m so proud of him.

At noon I met up with 3 pta helpers to decorate the staff room and this is what we walked into. 🤣 I had let Ms. Marschall know we’d be there at 12 and she brought a gaggle of little helpers for us. It was great because I gave them all the supplies and was able to go organize all my donations for each day and see better what I still need and they got a lot done. 

Was everything done exactly how I would have done it? No. Did some of it look a little wonky? Yes. Is it fine? Also yes. 

Even with all our little helpers it still took 3 hours. But it’s all good because this is my last time. 🎉🎉🎉

And it does look really cute!

I wasn’t sure how much decor to get, so I made my best guess and parents bought all of this as donations and I love it. 

Tonight Frankie finished drivers ed (hallelujah!), I made Henrichsons and us enchiladas, Adi and I watched movies and addressed her graduation cards, Matt mowed his grass (Nate Evans complimented Matt and asked for lawn help because our yard is so nice and Matt’s been walking on air and loving his grass even more than usual) and Delaney danced her little heart out. And Ruby found the camera in her room and hammed.it.up. ❤️❤️❤️