Yes, my week has been a whirlwind. Our calendar was crazily full every day. Last night, as I was checking to see what we had on the schedule for today, I realized that I needed to stop and take a breath and jot down my Friday Fave Fives to refocus my attention away from chaos. And so I wrote my FFFs on a 3x5 card before I fell asleep. These are what popped up in my memories.
1. Friday night, we joined our two daughters on a night at the local theater for a musical performed by all local actors. I knew two of them! One was our former mail carrier! And we enjoyed the play, too.
2. During the past week, I have walked/hiked six days. Sometimes, we walk in our neighborhood in the evenings. Three times this week. Our other walks were with Nurse Daughter and her two dogs. Athena and Sawyer love to walk and it gets their wiggles out.
3. This week our featured birthday boy is Older Son, Chaplain Dan. Happy Birthday, Chaps! This- is what I wrote on Fa-ebook:
Today is our oldest's birthday! Happy Happy Birthday, Dan! You have gone from Southern California (and other places in the US) to Indonesia, to Oregon, back to Southern California, to Arizona, and various and sundry spots all over the world for military assignments. There's more to come, I'm sure. And everywhere you go, your smile brightens everyone's day.
4. A friend texted me and asked, "Do you want basil?" "Yes!" (mine is under performing this year) She picked a bunch of me and handed me a kitchen trash bag FULL of basil. I spent the evening processing it all and making pesto. I think I have enough frozen cubes of pesto to last me until next summer. Yum!
5. Honey! Our bees provided abundantly again this spring/summer again this year. You can't have more local for your honey than your back garden. It tastes SO SO SO good!
Bonus Fave: I spent one afternoon at our daughters' home and helped Nurse Daughter do some organizing in the garage. Double joy for me-- spending time with her and doing an organizing project.
I hope you can slow down and step out of the whirlwind of life and remember the blessings.
6 comments:
Happy birthday to your son and that's a great list of blessings. You've certainly been busy - hope the weekend is relaxing.
This photo of Dan is so adorable! Wow, you have been busy, but thankfully with such fun things!! And you raise bees??? I LOVE that!!
...Happy Birthday, Dan.
Oh two of my very favourite things...basil and honey! Yummy. Happy birthday to your son!
My basil is doing great and I've already used it in so many dinner recipes and have given a big baggie to my neighbor friend. I may give some to my daughters if htey want it. I have a LOT. Didn't expect it to grow well but wow it must love hot and humid as all of our July was super hot and lots of high humidity. COoler now that it's August and I love it.
LOVE all of the things you're thankful for. Happy Birthday to Chaplain son and yay for all the good walks and hikes. I have two hikes next week!
Happiest of birthdays to Dan! Very cool that your bees are doing well!
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