Hello, all! I’m determined to make this a happy Monday because … well, I had a reeeeally bad Friday. Not that anything horrible happened, but I woke feeling a little off, went for a walk with my mom, then spent an hour bagging up junk from our garage to finish filling the big ol’ 10 yard dumpster we rented for our house/basement/garage cleanup. It was very hot out, and I was exhausted, and let’s just say that I don’t do well when you combine extreme heat and cleaning up other people’s messes. Everything annoyed me. Everyone annoyed me. And when I went out later in the day, it seemed every driver on the road decided that was the day they would pull out in front of me or some other dumb driving move, and then I became so annoyed that I was the jerk driver who pulled out in front of someone else. Needless to say, I did not like the person I was that day. LOL!
It has been a long time since I had a day where I felt that grumpy. I think maybe 2020 is getting to me a little bit too. 😉
Thankfully, I woke the next day feeling a little better. It was also my parents’ 49th anniversary and my cousin Tyler’s wedding in Indiana. So those were things that made it a happier day.
Besides my grumpy day, the rest of the week was good. I wrote a new Chapter One for my novel because I wasn’t really happy with the first draft, and I like it so much more. I also decided to watch the last two seasons of Jane the Virgin on Netflix. I had gotten behind at one point and was happy to see the final season was on there. Binged that over the course of a week and love how it all turned out in the end. It’s such a silly, soap-y show (on purpose), but the relationships between the characters, especially Jane and her mom and grandma, are just so wonderful and often bring me to tears. And Jane is a romance novel writer, so I relate to her in that way. 🙂
As I mentioned, my cousin Tyler’s wedding was Saturday. My mom and I traveled to Indiana and spent the evening with my dad’s side of the family, celebrating Tyler and Lily’s special day. They were supposed to get married in late May, but because of COVID, they decided to postpone. And they ended up choosing the same day my parents got married so that was fun. It was a small, beautiful wedding at a lovely farm with the reception in a big old barn all decorated up with strings of lights. The best part was just being with family and catching up. I don’t get to see my cousins very often, and some I have not seen in quite a while, so it was wonderful to see them again. My grandpa even came for a bit too, and it’s always good to see him.
It’s so strange to attend an event like that and wear masks and social distance, but it was handled really well, and we did our part and wore masks when close to others inside and sanitized our hands and such. It was nice to have most of it be outside and in the barn with the doors wide open, so not really in an enclosed space. And what a lovely location for a wedding. I shared several pictures and a couple videos over on MY INSTAGRAM if you’d like to see more than the ones I’m sharing in this post.
It was a lovely end to the week, and we’re so happy God brought Lily into Tyler’s life, and so excited to welcome her into our family. They are the sweetest couple. 🙂
Have a wonderful week!