It was a busy week around here and, dare I say, somewhat normal.
Jake and I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary on Wednesday. That seems crazy to me. It feels like yesterday, yet also like it was twenty-five years ago. 😉 I can still remember the day and the excitement of starting our life together. And we’ve been through so many things over the years, good and bad, and it’s taken a long time to get to this point. I can only imagine what our future might hold.
We didn’t do anything major to celebrate. Just Applebee’s takeout with the kids that night. And my mom brought over some mini cupcakes and ice cream for us. We’re talking about heading north in the fall for a weekend, which sounds glorious since fall is my favorite season.
Our girl started her senior year of high school on Tuesday, which looked completely different than years past. She said it was kind of depressing. Everyone wearing masks, not able to hang out with friends by lockers (not even allowed to use lockers this year), can’t eat in the cafeteria together, no congregating in the halls or outside in the parking lot after school. No football (it’s been postponed until spring, which is so weird). No spirit week or homecoming game/dance. None of those usual beginning of the school year kind of things that are memorable moments, especially senior year. But we are just very thankful that she’s able to have in-person learning with her teachers and get to see her classmates. Praying for the health and safety of all the students and that there are no outbreaks that cause the school to close again.
We also moved our boy back to college this week. On one of the hottest days this month. I totally melted going up and down the stairs with my mask-covered face. It was so humid that it was just overall hard to breathe when exerting ourselves anyway. So the mask didn’t help. But we got it done, and I know he’s super happy to be back on campus after coming home for Spring Break in March and never returning. It’s his junior year already. The majority of his classes are online, but he does have one in-person class that has a lab. He’s starting to get into the classes that really apply to his major now, which is exciting for him.
Having both of them back in school, along with Chloe now having a job, is definitely giving us that “back to normal” feeling. It’s been the four of us stuck in this house together for months, so I think it will take a little while to get used to actually having a quiet space again. 😉 I’m thankful for my kids and the time I have with them, for sure. But an empty house is good sometimes too.
After our busy week, I went out to my parents’ farm with my laptop and sat on their porch to edit my upcoming book, More Than a Billionaire. It was a beautiful day. The bluest blue skies with puffy white clouds. Highs in the low 70’s. Perfect. I really spent most of the time chatting with my mom, but I did get a little editing done on one chapter and Mom let me talk out another chapter that I thought I might need to add.
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