Journey Updates

Holiday week randoms <3
Randoms for a week that feels like one long holiday. Random #1 John came home over the weekend for an early birthday celebration. Per usual, he invited some friends who are still around town from various seasons of his life. Some were his age, some ours. He set up a 4:00 softball game which a…

Summer time is rolling along <3
I am standing here shaking my head and wondering where in the world the month of June went. A lot of it was spent sitting in yard chairs watching our favorite teams play ball, taking walks in the evening when the temperature dropped to a mere 85 – 90 degrees and getting caught up on…

Randoms for Wednesday <3
Right off the top of my head, here we go… Random #1 John is coming home this weekend for an early birthday celebration. I may be excited. He has cooked up his favorite way to celebrate and invited some friends and of course family to play softball and then come back to the house for…

Maybe this one is just for me …. <3
Yesterday Russ and I switched into grubs as soon as we got home from church and headed out to work in the yard before it got too hot. We were late to the party on that one. It was already beastly but we were determined and a lot of what needed weeding and washing we…

Let’s celebrate big on the longest day of the year <3
Big day at our house. Our Sweet Caroline turns eight. It was with mixed emotions for our girl. Some of us won’t get to see her for her special day and I think our contemplative child is realizing her childhood is on the cusp. We all feel it and so, of course, does she. Intuitive…

From someone else’s vantage point <3
On Saturday, the little village we live in had their annual summer celebration. I don’t know how many years this has been a thing, but I know when Rachel and Zach were first “going out” his parents drove all the way across town to pick her up and come back up to the north for…