weekending

 

Happy Tuesday, friends! I know that I blogged last week, but most of those posts were written the week before I went on vacation, so it feels like it's been ages since I've been here. Speaking of vacation, I'll come back tomorrow and share a little recap (it'll be short, because it was a simple and relaxing few days at the beach) and some pictures that I took while I was gone. Here's a little of what my weekend looked like.

I got home on Friday afternoon and came home to a quiet house. Jonah was home and Noah walked in right after I got here. They helped me unload the car and Noah carried my luggage upstairs for me to unpack, but I took a shower immediately. Does anyone else do that? I always feel gross after traveling and making stops along the way. I unpacked and settled in for an easy night at home. Todd worked and  Graham eventually got home and we talked for a while. I ate cauliflower pizza for dinner and I watched a new Hallmark movie I'd recorded last weekend.

It was so good to be home and in my own bed! I got up early Saturday morning and watched some episodes of a show I'm watching, then I started on laundry and some light cleaning. Todd and the boys cleaned while I was gone, so it was nice coming home to that. The area I focused on are all the spaces where I keep books downstairs. I have one shelf, a desk and a cabinet in the kitchen. I cleaned all of that out and have a giant load of books to donate after deciding to get rid of most of my books. We're always tossing around the idea of moving and if we were to ever do that, I would have to do this anyway, so I decided to go ahead and purge. I am keeping the books I love by my favorite authors, and only my favorite books from one of those because of how many I own that she's written, and the rest I am passing on. Believe it or not, that took most of the day! I got cleaned up after all of that and got the house clean again, along with all the surfaces, and I settled in for the evening with my husband and a plan to watch fireworks.

The dogs watched with us! 🤣

We were at church super early Sunday morning, and Todd went to work that afternoon. I made pasta for dinner and watched more of my show. Monday was more of the same—up early, laundry, reading, the usual, then I got dressed and grocery shopped. We had dinner at Mom's and Bill's for dinner, which was delicious. We had catfish, slaw, hush puppies, key lime pie, cookies and banana ice cream for dessert. The kids and their friends all shot off fireworks with Todd and Bill, then we came home. It was a nice and easy day, and it felt good for us all to be together as a family. It's been so long since we've all been in the same house! 

What'd you do this weekend? I'd love to hear from you! Thanks for reading my blog, friends. Love to all. 

(This was our sunset at their house last night. It was beautiful!)